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Getting money from PayPal is my psychic vampire

Alex @ September 1, 2008 | | Internet and Web, Money | Comments (0)

Nosferatu

I couldn’t bitch more about how the changes in Xoom’s service and PayPal’s uncertainty principle (trumps Heisenberg any day) has affected my financial streams all of a sudden. For the longest I used to receive the money I get from writing on regular intervals via Xoom and that level of control over my finances has kept the berserker in me in check. You see, I suffer from obsessive-compulsion disorder. When things aren’t the way they’re supposed to be, I get disoriented and depressed.

After those horrendous Xoom service changes, things didn’t leave any option for me to get money but to use PayPal. And being the victim of one of those PayPal horror stories, I just couldn’t help it but feel that I am playing Russian roulette with the money sent to me. As logic follows, that felt like playing Russian roulette with my livelihood. For a guy with OCD, that is more than nerve-wracking. It’s devastating.

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Tags: Blogging, Money, Paypal, Problogging

How much do you Plurkrastinate?

Alex @ August 25, 2008 | | Internet and Web | Comments (2)

Plurkrastinators of the world unite!

Many of my friends and acquaintances seem to be taking a lot of time Plurking. Mind you that most of them are working, and, judging by the timestamps of their Plurk messages, they are spending an awful lot of time Plurking (or in true online buzzword fashion, Plurkrastinating).

Should offices and employers be alarmed at how much time their employees spend on broadcasting each minuscule activity to the Plurkosphere? Oh man, system administrators might just be adding yet another URL/IP range into the proxy server list and that would be yet another reason for the Internet addict employee to get disgruntled.

This just begs the question: How much time do you actually spend Plurking?

Tags: Plurk, Plurkoshpere, Plurkrastinate, Plurkrastination, Plurkrastinator

On-road collisions and moral dilemmas

Alex @ August 19, 2008 | | Photos, Politics and Society | Comments (1)

Now this gives me something to write about. It has been six years since I was involved in an on-road collision. And I’ve never been involved in anything more than bended fenders and crack headlamps. Being the defensive driver, I’m confident in saying that I might just even be partially responsible for one (out of the three). Being through the experience means that I’ve been through the hassles of trading words with the other party, filing statements and police reports, appearing in preliminary judicial investigations (where you just affirm that you’ll settle outside court), then mooching the insurance company to shell out money.

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Tags: driving, Morality, Tricycles