I think if the banks and credit card companies really wanted to prevent identity theft, they’d offer a service (i’d pay!!!) where they send you a text message every time something happens in your account. You’d ignore most of them when you’re out and about spending freely, but would easily make note of the one made when you’re on the couch.
Does anyone know of services like this at their bank or outside of it??
I got the following message sent to me by a friend on facebook yesterday:
Attention all Facebook membeRs.
Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated,
There have been many members complaining that Facebook
is becoming very slow.Record shows that the reason is
that there are too many non-active Facebook members
And on the other side too many new Facebook members.
We will be sending this messages around to see if the
Members are active or not,If you’re active please send
to other users using Copy+Paste to show that you are active
Those who do not send this message within 2 weeks,
The user will be deleted without hesitation to create more space,
If Facebook is still overpopulated we kindly ask for donations but until then send this message to all your friends and make sure you send
this message to show me that your active and not deleted.
Founder of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg
I suppose it was only a matter of time… i don’t use facebook nearly as much as a used to. Actually, i guess i never really *used* it, i just spent time there. Techcrunch posted the following funny video that pretty much sums up how i feel about facebook these days.
It was a novelty, its worn off for me, but i’ll occasionally still use it as a tool when i need to send a message out to friends in a manor more trusted than email… and so my picture is next to my message. Actually, its less reliable than email, moreso now though that they include the message in their notification email, but a lot of people likely don’t read them or have the notifications disabled.
In a totally unrelated note, google talk has added translation - this is very cool. You can now in theory IM people in different languages, and have google talk translate for you. Do i have any non-english readers that would care for a conversation???
I’m writing this 6 hour 250 question exam tomorrow. I’ve been studying for it for roughly 3 months. It has basically swallowed all my free time. Pass or fail, I will be very glad when it is through.
If i pass, i will definitely have my cats to thank. They’ve helped me through some tough times.
If i fail, i will definitely have my cats to blame. They’ve definitely caused me to waste lots of time.
Is it just me or is iTunes the absolute worst piece of casual software available on windows (i don’t have a mac, so i can’t speak to its effectiveness on its native platform)?
I started using my girlfriends iPod mini a year or so ago, and its pretty sweet. The interface is decent, its light, does what i expect, never skips, its cool. My first annoyance was when i wanted to put music on it. It was a new computer, so of course with its shite drm it has to trash everything thats on there. I’ve heard there’s ways around this, if anyone has quick links for the future i would be much obliged.
Adding stuff and syncing is relatively painless i must admit. Drag the stuff in there, if its “checked” it means it’ll show up on the iPod if you sync. But whats with the massive album art? Showing me 25 items on the screen is somewhat of a ridiculous use of space… this may be there “pretty” view and speak to my laziness for not investigating other options, but i have high standards for out of the box software!!!
All that i’ve mentioned i can handle. What i CANNOT handle is update software that is ridiculously in my face, and constantly FAILS!! Its now iTunes 7.5 that is trying to be installed, and it always fails for one reason or another. I don’t have the time or patience to try to fix it, i only have the time or patience to bitch about it, cause thats what i feel like doing right now. I’d get a mac for that sweet icon scroller thingy at the bottom, but if iTunes is my main music software, i think i’ll stick with my windoze.