Walgreens - The Ministry of Truth

Photography is becoming difficult every day. Read this thread on Flickr. Apparently, if you tried to get Walgreens to print really good shots that you took -- they wouldn't do it because they wouldn't believe they'd be yours! You MUST be stealing someone's photos, you thief!

Wow!

What next? Should we be discredited of everything good we do?

In fact, now that I think about it -- something similar happened to me a long long time ago. I wrote a poem on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy in 1984 (now that year couldn't possibly be mere co-incidence) and my Hindi teacher admonished me for stealing it from somewhere. I tried to convince her that I wrote it myself but no sir she would not have it. The poem was too good to be created by me. I was only 11 years old. How could I be 'good'? She wanted me to admit to my error of judgment in front of the class. I of course would not do it. I cried, I was young. I wrote even more poems after that. Some good, some bad but I guess most beyond my youth.

Babe-in-the-woods or...

...the Whore of Babylon? That seemed to be the choice last night and surprisingly a lot of people picked the later. I guess when the going gets tough -- you want to stick to the same old. It may also be the "Will to Sloth" of general American voting population that helps those with the "Will to Power" to rise.

Microhoo!

Can nothing good ever happen? Are we doomed to a lifetime of resentment and anger at thing that we cannot control but things that control our lives completely?

Microsoft buying yahoo would destroy the following for me:
- my primary email
- my photo sharing (flickr)
- my primary contact mgt app
- my primary calendaring app
- my primary home page app
- my ability to get email on blackberry
and several other things that I cannot think of right away.

oh, well. I guess it is time to move everything to Google...which actually sucks because they are not quite there in terms of products