Spring is finally here. Cannot wait to see it bloom all around. Actually few plants and trees have already started to show their vibrant spring blossoms. Azaleas and Chameli in our backyard have been blooming for several weeks now. I have been waiting for the glorious sunny days for quite a while now. Swimming lessons, summer camps, barbeques, camping trips, star gazing - busy, crazy, yet lovely!
Happy Ugadi – Yuga + Aadi!
సర్వజిత్ నామ సంవత్సర శుభాకాంక్షలు!
While I was gone into my ‘this and that and everything crazy’ world, I missed an anti-plagiarism protest going on in the food-blog world. Could not believe that Yahoo stooped so low. Well, not Yahoo exactly, but it’s subcontractors. They really did not have to. All for some recipes and pictures? Has creativity with food come to such a dead-end? Fine, may be it is not as easy for everyone. What about, ‘Hi - hello, love your postings, could we please borrow your wonderful work?’. Bloggers would have jumped out of their skin to hear that from Yahoo! These incidents reminded me of our missing newspapers on some of the days. We had a period of time when we got our local newspaper on weekends and daily WSJ. On some of the Saturdays, before sun is out, H would have seen both the newspapers on the driveway, when heading out for his tennis. On his return, he would only find one 
Someone thought that we don’t really need both and “would not even notice” if one was missing. Do these Yahoo sub-contractors belong to the same clan? If yes, then they know by now that people do figure things out. And please, watch your conduct even in the cyber world.
Ok, curiosity got me to pay a visit to Yahoo’s telugu portal. Since this was about the food info plagiarism I clicked on Recipes tab. Most of the recipes (should I say, all?) say that they were courtesy of WebDunia. WebDunia is the Yahoo contractor responsible for all this fury of ’blog dunia’. Yahoo’s nice neat way of saying ‘not me – not me’, instead of demanding the original source to be credited in the right way.
