Steamboat Night

With regards to the recent spat of code-copying...well since Danny has made a pretty big issue of it, I just felt that I should put in a word or two about the matter. His article here.

It's perfectly fine to learn HTML by reading code from someone's site. In fact, you dont even have to cite your source or give any credit. It's code. No one really sees it. Remember I'm talking about using someone's scripts or code.

Another thing about using someone's code. Please customize/edit it to suit your blog and not blindly copy code. You might find things in the code that do not apply to you. It reflects very poorly on yourself as an online citizen. Why duplicate when you can personalize it?

Now, if you're talking about using someone's words from a blog entry then yes, do cite your source. If you dont, it's very unprofessional and you'll get into people's black books rather quickly.

On a lighter note, I went for a pretty fun time of food and fellowship with some of my Penang peeps (pic). We had a steamboat dinner at this place called Little Shanghai. Dont come on an empty stomach because you have to cook your food. It's not actually just a steamboat, because around the hot pot, there's also a hot plate for you to fry stuff on.


Left to right:Weng Khong, Huan Lin, Nelly, Yen Ling, Bin Bin, Nicol, Elaine, Yew San, me, Sudha.