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Not only is it totally addictive as it features all kinds of differently hosted sites in one place (I can’t stop browsing!) but I’m hoping it will be a workaround for some WP Reader display issues I’ve been having.
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The 100 stew came by its name because I’d intended this to be Imagination is spicy’s 100th post. As it was delayed in being published, I could say it has a hundred flavour influences instead!
A bit of an exaggeration perhaps but this is a stew recipe influenced by the flavours found in cooking across Malaysia, Indonesia and Myanmar.
This is a ‘dry’ stew, close to an Indonesian rendang in consistency, with most of the flavours of the sauce soaked up by chickpeas and tender, slow-cooked beef.
Back in August 2012, as part of my Photographs on a Friday series, I wrote and made a handy info cartoon about my thoughts on image usage regarding graphics and photos that I have created and appear on this blog.
Inevitably, sad as it makes me to acknowledge just how inevitable this is, I found out that a blogger has recently appropriated a couple of images from Imagination is spicy and is claiming them as their own work.
What makes it almost funny, but not quite funny enough for my taste, is what they chose to use is just about the laziest thing I can imagine stealing. Ever. It’s these two images which I took for my March blog giveaway, with them removing the original winner’s name and re-typing text in a clumsy bit of manipulation on the second image:
With thanks to Nina and her readers at Muffin queen and her photographers who uncovered this person’s prolific theft of other people’s images and content and fellow Blogger Domček, who tracked back and posted the correct URL for the images from my blog.
All I can re-iterate from this experience is: I’m generally okay about sharing my own images, if I am asked first, or as bare minimum get a name credit, blog link or both.
Update 16/5/13
I am glad to report that this particular instance of image theft has had a happier ending. After some assistance in writing a message to the blogger who used my images, explaining the legal ramifications, they were promptly removed from her site.
If this should happen to any other readers there are some things I’d recommend:
1. Do go and read about the steps leading up to filing a DMCA notice or other legal action. If you know how far you can or want to go with a legal process it will help you formulate your response with more knowledge.
2. Give yourself time to think about how you want to proceed. If I’d attempted to contact the blogger in my initial shock and anger it would have been an ill-judged and personal response. Try to aim for a calm, professional tone in communicating and stick to the facts.
3. Don’t give up before you try! It’s easy to think that it’s not worth getting into a disagreement with someone over a couple of non-professional images. It may not turn out to be as quickly rectified as my example, but, if I hadn’t tried then there would be a blogger out there thinking that it was perfectly okay to take people’s work and call it her own. Hopefully this experience has informed her of the potential consequences and she will no longer continue with that behaviour.
I’ve happily used the Talika brand of eye make-up remover, which I had a stash of, for several years. Sadly, the formulation was changed by the time I came to buy it again and it no longer worked so well for me.
After reading a lot of overwhelmingly positive reviews for Lancôme’s Bi-Facil I decided to splurge on trying it (£21.00 for a 125ml bottle).
Yay! It's finally time for my giveaway! Read below for all the rules and info on how to enter!
Start - 06/05/2013
End - 26/05/2013
The prizes:
It can be amazing how you can eat something for years without thinking about other possible cooking uses. This has definitely been so for me with Marmite - the classic English savoury spread known for its love it/hate it effect on people.
Even though I’ve eaten this since I was a child and its salty, yeasty, flavour and dense treacle-like texture is something that I enjoy, it hadn’t occurred to me to eat it other than on hot buttered toast or the occasional crumpet.
The first time I came across a recipe that used it was a genuine surprise, especially as it was part of making an onion gravy. It turned out to be one of the best gravy recipes ever. That lead to thinking; “What else can you cook with it?”
Until last year I’d never really considered sewing as being something I’d enjoy. Crafts in general seemed to be the type of activities that brought me out in a sweat or turned fingers into thumbs, like the time I managed to glue clumps of glitter into the carpet when making some paper decorations (sometimes putting newspaper on the floor isn’t enough).
It was a surprise when I found I really liked doing sewing projects. It began with a t-shirt combining fabric paint stencilling and hand sewing, then moving onto embroidered felt cards for family and friends.
This is a very recent addition to my collection of graphic novels. A single book story, by U.K-based artist and writer Hannah Berry, it is one I knew on finishing should be included in this series.
Adamtine is a brilliantly effective combination of mystery tale and psychological horror.
To let regular readers know of a small change I’m making; the Like button, and display of bloggers’ Gravatars who have made a Like, will no longer appear at the bottom of new posts from today.
Thank you to those who have used it to show appreciation and enjoyment of what I’ve written, as a way to bookmark posts or when new visitors have promoted their blog of similar interests.
Unfortunately, a particular “promotional” use where people (or bots) spam Likes at every recent post that’s listed, regardless of what the exact content of their blog is and without reading other people’s, has become rather tedious. I don’t support spamming.
The Like facility can still be found on the Reader page if people wish to use that instead, but those won’t show up on my full blog posts.
Just to note that posts will be a bit behind this month as I’m currently working on a couple of sewing projects (my first try at gold work), so it may be a little quiet here with updates.
I hope to back soon, with some finished sewing to show too!
