You can be better or you can be bitter

You know, this is going to be fun. Because practically every post that Fish Creek Makes on their INNside Innkeeping blog is taking content from somewhere else. No matter how much or how often people complain, they still keep taking other people's content.

Yesterday, September 1, 2007, they posted this post: UPDATE, Tuesday Sept 4, 2007: Looks like they took down the article. Score 1 for Fish Creek House Watch!

You can be bitter or you can be better

Note the paragraphs on "First Key: Control" and "Second Key: Alt(ernate)"

Now look at this article, from Ezine Articles:

Ctrl-Alt-Delete Your Life

written by author Soni Pitts, and published on September 24, 2004. I wonder how Soni feels about the Fish Creek House lifting her words and passing them off as their own?

In the very same Fish Creek post, notice these sentences from the second paragraph:

I think the key (pun intended) difference between happy people and unhappy people is in the translation of the events of their lives. It’s also the difference between successful people and unsuccessful people

and now notice the first paragraph by musician Christine Kane:

It seems to me that the difference between happy people and unhappy people is in the translation of the events of their lives. It’s also the difference between successful people and unsuccessful people

Further along, in the section labeled "Second Key" you'll find this text:

Sometimes I think this is the only reason to take risks — so you don’t go through life settling for what you’ve always believed to be true. And you get to have these moments where you look up from your little-mindedness and say, “Ohhhhhh. You mean, I don’t have it quite right here? You mean, there’s a better way of seeing this?” I come from a background of second-guessers. It didn’t matter what the decision was — if the result brought about any level of discomfort or or challenge, my mother would inevitably say, “Oh! We should have � (Fill in the blank” I’m not blaming my mom here, but I am saying that I was programmed at an early age for regret, second-guessing, doubt, and not trusting my own judgment .

Compare that to text in the third and fourth paragraphs of Christine's post:

Sometimes I think this is the only reason to take risks — so you don’t go through life settling for what you’ve always believed to be true. And you get to have these moments where you look up from your little-mindedness and say, “Ohhhhhh. You mean, I don’t have it quite right here? You mean, there’s a better way of seeing this?”
I come from a background of second-guessers. It didn’t matter what the decision was — if the result brought about any level of discomfort or envy or challenge, my mother would inevitably say, “Oh! We should have �Ķ. (Fill in the blank�Ķ ordered the steak instead of the shrimp, stayed at that beach house and not this one, waited til Hecht’s had a sale and gotten this cheaper�Ķ)” I’m not blaming my mom here, but I am saying that I was programmed at an early age for regret, second-guessing, doubt, and not trusting my own judgment and discernment.

Amazing, isn't it?

Fish Creek House has managed to do a mashup of two posts by different people. Throw an original sentence in here and there, and voilá, "insta-entry". Too bad it's almost entirely plagiarized.