I hate you paypal!

Dear PayPal,

Yesterday I received an email saying I had limited access to my own paypal account, and today I reached even more roadblocks with trying to resolve it.

I was informed by an information bubble that I have limited access because a third party tried to use my account. I agree, I think it was Apple. Yesterday I tried to hook up my paypal account to my iTunes account and I was told it was successful, and then that it had timed out and I should try again. So I did, several times. As that was the same day you limited my access, I assume that was the problem; you not working with iTunes.

Then to get access back to my account I was told I needed to change my password and security question, which I did. I also had to verify my location by a phone call to a landline at my home address. I don't have a landline at my home address. I have a cell phone, I don't need a landline. How else can I verify my own home address? By you mailing me a letter. Of course! I will wait a few days while you snail mail me something to prove that I am myself. Seeing as you have my money and I wanted to buy a keyboard today since mine stopped working, how about if I just take a picture of me outside of my house and email it to you instead?

You are holding my money hostage and I don't appreciate it, if I knew there would be a problem I would have had people write me checks and mail them into the bank rather than paypal-ing me money. I live at the address I said AND it is in fact my own paypal account. Please let me have my account back now. I promise to not let Apple and iTunes touch it again. And I still don't want to get a landline phone.

Sincerely,
Jenny

Failure as a 1930s Housewife

-16 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Poor (Failure) Take the test!

Looking at the scoring:

0-24 - Very Poor (Failure)
25-41 - Poor
42-58 - Average
59-75 - Superior
76+ - Very Superior

I am off the chart a poor 1930s housewife! No surprise.

Happy Geek Pride Day!

May 25 is Nerd Pride Day or Geek Pride Day!

Read about Nerd Pride Day, visit the official Geek Pride Day site, or buy some items to show off your Geek Pride!

Just remember to be proud to be a geek!

Paying Invites Forward

I was inspired to figure out what sites I have invites to and pay them forward.
If you want one of them send me your email address to jdots24 at gmail or dm me on twitter.

Ping.fm - use code "pingscompany"

socialthing!

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SkyDeck

DropBox

Orgoo

StatusTweet

Twine

TunesBag

Jaiku

Vorolo

Mento

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Social Browse

Updated 8/1/08

Can't send email to + address

I have several different Google Alerts and I wanted to filter them easily into different labels in my Gmail. Since they all come from the same email address I decided to have them sent to different email addresses and filter them that way.

Of course one of Gmails features is being about to add '+txt' to your email and it all goes to your email address but you can identify the email it was sent to easily. Unfortunatly when I tried to add a + to my Google Alerts, I got an error.



I cannot think of a single reason why Google wouldn't be able to do this. I understand that Google Alerts is still in beta, but it seems like the address they send an alert to shouldn't be restricted by one of their own features.

Strange.

Need More Feeds!

Hi! My name is Jenny and I'm a feed reader-holic!

I have been at work for 4 hours and my Google Feed Reader is empty.

This past week I have been emptying my feed reader too fast, and once it is empty, I don't know what to do. So I skipped over to Toluu and found many seeming interesting feeds. I added many feeds but here I am, a few days later and still empty google reader.

I like feeds that stop and make me read each item, unfortunately many feeds have one or two gems in with lots of useless posts. What I like to do is subscribe to a feed, read the items for a few weeks and then reevaluate. If I skip over the majority of the posts then I might as well unsubscribe, if I like most the content, I keep it.

I have about 150 feeds in my google reader right now. You can see most of the feeds I read at my Toluu page. I say most becuase there are some feeds that I haven't added to Toluu but I do read. But most of them are there.

I feel that an empty reader is wasting time in my quest to read the entire interwebs.

I need more reading material! Send them my way!

Oooh! 3 new items popped up!

Pink Breast Cancer Awareness

Here is a quick thought, one of those ideas that are too long for Twitter...

Yes I know it's the wrong time of the year....

Besides my personal preference against the color pink, I find the breast cancer awareness products annoying for one main reason, commercialization.

I do think breast cancer awareness is important and groups have done a great job being seen and raising money, the problem come with all of the companies that join in making pink products for profit. They agree to donate a certain amount to Breast Cancer Research in exchange they paint their product pink and cover it with pink ribbons. They do not donate a percentage of all purchases, it is a set amount, usually very low.

For example, the pink iPod Shuffle that surfaced for breast cancer awareness month.

For the same $79 that Apple charges for the diminutive clip-on digital players, Target is also throwing in a $15 iTunes gift card. In addition, the retailer is donating a portion of the proceeds of each sale to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation — up to $25,000 in total.

Think about how much Apple made off of that pink iPod, and people most likely bought the iPod thinking they were doing a good thing, what they didn't know is there purchase wasn't making that much of an effect, the donation was already set. I am just using the Apple iPod as an example, look closely at any pink product and see how much they are really donating.

There is a group, Think Before you Pink, which urges you to think about the product and how it is really helping before you buy it. Their website has lots of good information.

One of the reasons that breast cancer awareness is so easily exploited, is because it is a disease that primarily affects women. Breast cancer is a serious disease and many large companies are exploiting women and their sickness for their profit. When was the last time you bought a product to help research for colon cancer?

If you really want to help, then donate directly to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.