Humanity seems to have disappointed me: There is only one best of Craigslist Post this year thus far!
Seriously? Really? Come on people!
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/all/
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Another week…
Busy times for our hero this week.
1) Work is somewhat crazy, lots going on….and about to get somewhat crazier. I was there till Midnight on Wednesday (by myself 
) trying to get something done. Than I ended up just re-writing most of it on Thursday. We’re doing self assessments + type stuff too. Blizzah.
2) The NCAA tournament has started, this is my magical time of the year. MAGICAL!
Only a couple of brackets this year…and no major money. Ucla (my beloved alma mater) didn’t go last year; so its always cool to see them play.
Dropping Credit Cards
Apparently, I’ve gotten into the habit of paying for things via credit card…but then not actually collecting my card.
This has happened twice in the past two days….once, my card was unfindable. Obviously, this is non sustainable…as I’m quickly going to run out of credit cards. It also seems to have the negative side effect of messing with my mint.com tracking of financial stuff.
Oh well!
Making it big!
Well, you know that you’ve made it big when the army of internet spammers find your website.
That’s right! www.bryanshort.com despite no advertising, little search engine love, etc, no actual users or readers….has caught the attention of comment SPAMers. Each of the 3 (three) posts on bryanshort.com, received a comment today. I’ll admit that when I saw the “comment” emails; I was a bit excited…but oh, well…easy come / easy go.
To counter act the spammers, I’ve activated askismit the anti-comment spam plug-in. Apparently free, if you run a little out of the way website.
Woot!
(note: this is in no way propositioning / challenging SPAMers to continue to try and grief me)
Pay Pal identity theft!
So a random happenstance happened the other day. I woke up to emails from paypal.com, saying that I had invested $60 american dollars in “gold” at tagged.com.
Not really knowing much about what was going on; after a few hours….I logged in and validated that indeed $60 had been spent on “gold”.
So a couple of questions came to mind:
1) What was “gold”? (I kinda initially assumed that this was for one of those odd video games)
2) How was I going to convince paypal, that my identity had been stolen and that I had no “gold” needs.
Investigating “gold” further; it appears that tagged.com is a social networking site perhaps focusing on dating. I’m not sure what “gold” does…but people seem to want it for some reason, online.
The answer to my second question was much more mysterious. There was a “dispute charges” link for each of the 3 unauthorized charges. So I clicked the magic link , typed “I know nothing about this charge” in the details field of the form that came up and submitted my claims.
Than the waiting began…apparently they emailed tagged.com; and after quite some time they decided that I did infact not randomly invest in gold…and elected to award my $60 back to me.
I’ve also changed my paypal account password + reminded question. I kinda wonder exactly how this happened….but I suspect that I’ll never know the details. Big ups to PayPal though; like I guess I expected this to me more of an ordeal than it actually was. Just thinking about it, they are probably one of the most attacked sites on the internet. I’m also slightly amused that, given access to my checking account + credit card….Mr. Identity Thief elected to steal $60.
I’ve decided to replace all the accounts on various websites I’ve had that used that password. Just in case!