Category Archives: Interwebs

ABC Tweets Twitter

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Last night on ABC News with Charlie Gibson they did a piece on Twitter.com.  It was a pretty good piece but did they get it all wrong?  They marketed the whole twitter service as a customer service platform.  Yes it can be used as that since there are some companies that are responding to customer problems but I don’t think that 2% of the poople at using it that way.  You can check out the online video of the piece here.  It looks like ABC news doesn’t allow you to embed the video yet, sorry.  What do you think about the clip?

My party was crashed!

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UPDATE: Mike’s Blog has been deleted! His blog states the following:

ERROR: Journal has been deleted. If you are yksfoctur, you have a period of 30 days to decide to undelete your journal.

I don’t normally do this but I would like everyone to be aware of this merchant, MyPartyShirt.com. Last month I ordered two shirts from mypartyshirt.com for $29.90 and $7.00 USPS shipping, with a total cost of $36.90. These shirts where ordered on November 7th 2007 and as of today I still haven’t received my shirts. The shirts were supposed to be Christmas presents and anyone in there right mind would have thought that placing an order on November 7th would be plenty of time to get them delivered before the holiday, since they will have to be shipped again. I thought wrong. My first contact with mypartyshirt.com was on November 20th

ME:I ordered shirts on 7 Nov 2007 – 19:21 and was wondering when these items would be shipped? I haven’t received any mails saying these items were shipped however, my Credit Card has been charged. Please provide me a status ASAP. Order ID : xxxxxx
MY PARTY SHIRT: Your order is currently en route and will be arriving to you shortly. Please carefully review our shipping policy for further information regarding your inquiry, thank you

A couple days after this inquiry I decided to contact the company again.

ME: I ordered shirts on 7 Nov 2007, could I have the tracking number for my order, also when was it shipped out…Thank you. Order ID : xxxxxx
MY PARTY SHIRT: Your order is currently en route and will be arriving to you very shortly. Thank you for your patience.

Obviously I knew I would get the same response. I started to think that I was in a scam that every news outlet talks about when in the holiday shopping season. The next few emails transpired with mypartyshirt.com

ME: You didn’t answer my question…What’s my tracking number?
MY PARTY SHIRT: Tracking is not provided by the USPS for first class packages, sorry.

ME: Please provide the day the item was shipped. I have contact the USPS and they told me that for NY to FL the item should already be here by now.

This last email transpired on November 28th 21 days after I had placed my order. I then placed a call to MyPartyShirt.com using the phone number that was listed on my credit card statement (516-728-1480 NY). All that I could get was a T-Mobile voice mail. Till today I was not sure of many companies that ran there main contact number off of a T-Mobile cell phone. I decided to contact my credit card company and file a fraud charge. I since have been gotten my money back however, no shirts.

Yesterday I did a quick search of the internet to see if anyone else has had problems with this so called company. I found the following site that has a few comments about shipping disputes. There are many reviews of this company that pretty much say the same thing. For anyone thinking of buying anything from this company steer clear. They are not reliable and do not care about customer service. I will be in contact with the Better Business Bureau in Long Island, NY to file a complaint in the coming days.

Here are some of the sites that I found about the goof that runs this company.

I will keep every updated on the progress of this order.

CONTINUE TO THE UPDATE =>

WordPress 2.3 Install…Easy As 1,2,3

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I just finished my install of wordpress 2.3 and converted over to pull the source out of the subversion repository. This install was Easy! Instructions are here. It only took me 20 mins or so.

Update: I did run into one small problem. The Google Sitemaps Plugin currently does not work with WordPress 2.3 due to the fact that some the the category tables have been removed from the database schema. Does anyone know if there is a new version or will be a new version of this plugin?

Please Help Me. I am the victim on your email hacking article

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You may remember back in December I posted about my friend Doug’s site that had to do with email hacking. If not here is the article. You should read this first. Yesterday I recieved another email from Domingo.

My email account hemidragster@gmail.com has been recently hacked. I no
longer have access to it.

After having realized that, I googled that same email and came up with 2
results. One was pointed to the genericgeek.com site and the other one to
the following article on your website:

http://www.kapustabrothers.com/2006/12/16/email-password-hacking-gmail-yahoo-hotmail-msn/

Turns out that contrary to what you tell people in that article, those gmail
accounts CAN BE HACKED. I know because it has happened to me 3 times
already.

This person that claims to be me and uses the email cuda71pe@yahoo.com is my
offender. He is using that email to try to get access to my other emails
claiming to have lost the passwrods to them. This is a lie. That person is
not me…he just hacked my email quite a while ago and he is now using it to
try to break into my other current email accounts.

I no longer have access to that cuda71pe@yahoo.com email account. I lost
access to that one over 3 years ago…I thought it was due to some kind of
error at the yahoo server, but after reading your article, I have realized
somebody is still making use of it…and that same person wanted to hack my
hemidragster@gmail email as well, which he did just a few days ago. Needless
to say, I lost access to that email. And all of my VALUABLE business

information. This person is doing a GREAT HARM TO ME.

Now I’m emailing you from the only email I have access to at the moment,
which my offender is also trying to hack, as you can tell from the post he
made at the genericgeek.com website.
http://www.genericgeek.com/en/node/757#comment-6853

From what I read on your article this person did send you a Pay Pal payment
via email. I WOULD BE VERY GREATFUL if you could tell me from what person or
email did this payment come from. This would help me track down the person
who is doing me this great harm over and over again. I am tired of this and
would like to put an end to it.

I live in Lima, Peru…and based on what I read this person who is hacking
my emails must also live in Lima, Peru since he said that he doesnt have
access to Pay Pal. Pay Pal is still not available in Peru. Thats why he said
he could make a friend send you the Pay Pal payment. Im thinking it may be a
relative of his or a friend living in the USA. It would be very easy for me
to find out who this scumbag is once I have id’ed that Pay Pal identity,
email or name for the email your got the $40 payment from.

Thanks and please help me out here. If you can give you your phone number it
would be great so we can talk a bit more abut it if there is more you need
to know. I think this would make for a great article on your website.

Thanks!
Domingo Cicirello

Yike! Someone please help this tool!

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