Friday, April 25, 2008

Working in the office: so much to hate about it!

I work in an office. Like most of you, I guess. Every office has its own lifestyle, its own regulations. Do you like the lifestyle of YOUR office, does it fit your habits and personal rythm? Mine is not, frankly speakig. I see many people sit at their desks without any shade of fatigue, but I feel like in a cell, in a closed box. I like air. I need free breathing, not the dry and dusty air of my room. This and the presence of a lot of people makes me really tired and I have less energy to do my job.
I tried working at home - it is much easier and faster, I should say! So I wonder wh can't I do my job at home without spending 2 hours a day on my way to work and back???
I'm sure there should be opportunity for people like me - I will do all the things I have to do, but PLEASE not there in the stuffy office!
It is sad, but they pay much less money for working at home and it s not encouraged at all...
Where would you do your job - at home or in the office? Maybe, I'm a pervert??!!!

Friday, April 18, 2008

Credit Card Shaving: a New Invention of Identity Thieves!!!

Identity theft has become the nightmare of every holder of a credit or a debit card. Even if you are a user of some exclusive credit card deals, you can face this problem. What scares people most of all is the fact that you can fail noticing you have become identity theft victim. Numerous experts from credit card companies and special organizations give their countless tips on how to protect your credit. You can fall victim of credit card fraud, even if your plastics are in your wallet and you haven’t received alerts of stolen credit information, but there are credit card transactions you didn’t make. Experts call this credit card shaving and offer a number of security measures against it.
I hear about this for the first time, so I decided to publish the details of the issue in my blog. Credit card shaving sounds really strange, probably, because this is a new crime in the variety of scams. Scammers, surprisingly, do not try to get your credit card or personal information in any way. They just try out the combination of figures which make a valid credit card number. After that the masters of blade and glue stick cut the digits from the old plastics and put them in the valid succession. After that they are free to use the hand-made credit card for purchases. The police say victims rarely aware of the scam, therefore, the criminals can make multiple purchases with one and the same credit card number.
As you see, identity thieves have become really inventive nowadays. I believe it is necessary to check out the new issues concerning this problem, and I bookmarked Privacy rights site to be always in the know of independent information.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

A fabulous find in the Web


I got a habit of browsing such sites as digg or furl to discover new and interesting info for fun and practical use. Today I came across a link I was happy to find - Darwin works online. it is a site which contains all eminent works by Ch. Darwin, including The Descent of a Man, Origins of the Species and many more. That was exactly what I was searching for not long ago and now I've found them all!

Monday, April 14, 2008

I'm searching for a new...

cell phone! My old kind Nokia 6101 can no longer meet my needs. And it is covered with multiple scratches, since I used to carry it in my jeans pocket from which it used to fall out.
I'm tired of browsing the web, really. It is not easy to find the phone of your dream which does not cost my monthly salary. I want a slider, with a camera and good memory, also with mp3 and something intriguing.. I don't know what... Probably, some of you can make a suggestion of a good Nokia phone?

Monday, April 7, 2008

It is April already and I still don't know what my credit score is like. There are a lot of sites that cater for credit reports online, and my aim today was to find the one which could give me reliable information and the reports itself as well. After a bit of googling, I came across a web-site that looks unpretentous, but contains a lot of valuable information. Ah, it's called unioncreditreports.com - I ordered my credit report and credit score from this site already.
I still doubt whether it can make any good to order some books about frugal living from this site. the articles are useful, but not for me, as I keep spending beyond my means...
Hope you are wiser with money!