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The other morning I was heading out the door a wee bit too fast. Ended up hearing this clicking outside my door. Rolled it down, and didn’t see a thing…until I got to work.

I drug my T-mobile Dash’s earp/mic phones down 14 miles of rural and interstate scenery.

Time for some online shopping! Off to Tigerdirect.com I headed and low and behold I caught on to a Bluetooth earpiece for under $20 USD! Way Cool! Rather than use either my credit card or paypal info, I was able to set up payment through eBillme.com. All it amounted to after the normal sales info at Tigerdirect.com was inputting premade account info they provided in my bank’s online payment section. Easiest purchase I’ve made to date.

In fact…funny thing happened after I set everything up. Within a few minutes after setting up the account, I forgot to tell my bank to make the payment. I decided to do some geek stuff, and needless to say had to replace the RAM in the laptop. Off to CompUSA I went, since I couldn’t wait for delivery. Came home, and completely forgot the purchase.

Lo and behold a few days later I got a call from eBillme.com, asking if there was anything wrong. Explained the problem, and they informed me that it was no problem, the purchase was ok to hold off until I got back online and it wouldn’t go POOF or anything!

Can’t do that with many services these days. I don’t have to give out personal bank info, everything’s safe one way out from my bank ONLY if I authorize it…unlike if someone gets your routing number and account number…and can suck out whatever they want!

That makes me feel safer. I feel even more secure when I read over their fine print of protection they give as well. If you’re purchasing anything online, check to see if the location offers eBillme.com as a payment option and try it once. Chances are you’ll be hooked like me, too!

People duplicating other people’s writing on forums, blogs, or other places on the internet may be able to sugarcoat what they do and get away with it, but it’s still wrong.

If they wanted to create discussion, they could have easily put a link up asking people to read the material in a seperate window…close it…and comment further on the thread.

People place themselves around people they aspire to be like. If they choose to read ‘reprinted’ material, they’ll never know if they’re being given…say…an original copy of the KJV…or Awake…unless they go to the source.

People that settle for less than the source are sheep. Don’t settle. Educate yourself. When you’re done, feel free to treat yourself and some friends to one of many European cruises.

In the past I’ve related how different home products can or might be used by people like me after getting their own homes after years of not having one. Another category fitting the bill would be drapes and roller shades.

With having had a home now for just under a year and a half, I can relate to how this not only affects the appearance of a living room, but the final cost outcome on monthly bills. Lost dollars due to heat lost through glass in winter and heat entering in the summer has shown it’s ugly face in our home. Something to look into myself.

This caught my eye when I came across it on my monitor: legal steroids!

With the hype in the sports world with stars ratting each other out while others pat backs, it’s a wonder none of them went in this direction.

Granted, they might not get the quick impact they did with the illegal counterparts.  But then again they wouldn’t have to worry about side effects, some of which are known to kill people.

A Hansgrohe faucet is pretty, no doubt about it. You get what you pay for. Sparkling water falling from the opening of the extended neck, loving towering over the sink it’s place on.

It’s truly a work of art.  Bringing elegance and class to an already staple area of the home able to be used for entertaining dinner guests prior do the meal.

Get one.  You’ll be glad you did.  Their sharp!

More and more we see the warning: “Do not give your password to anyone, EVER!”, but more and more I’m seeing a huge amount of online communities such as Spicypage asking for just that…for other accounts on other servers, and from the info at their whois screen, they haven’t been operational for more than a year.

I visited the site months ago after coming across it in MyBlogLog, and since it’s still now in ‘Beta’, what I saw didn’t appeal to me at the time. This afternoon I went back and went to update my blog info, but wasn’t allowed to.

They asked for my Blogger ID and password, which I didn’t provide.

Many of the blogs I visit; having varying degrees of experience online relating to password issues; are members of this community in particular, some in fact who are pretty hard core in being the ones to tell newbies what’s not safe.

Do they know something I don’t? Are they ‘friends’ with the people at Spicypage? Have they given in for the sake of losing traffic if they didn’t provide their UserID and password to their site accounts?

More importantly should it ever be a requirement to give your confidential information to an online community that gives anyone direct access and control of your site? What safety net is there to prevent someone from being employed for the sake of getting just that capability?

Can’t happen? It’s one of the tactics I used to find my father, kids.

Do you feel really that safe in giving out your userid and password to other sites? Comment.

NOTE: While this entry cites my user experience at Spicypage.com, it should not be considered endorsement, judgement, or determination of quality of their services whatsoever. This entry is for the benefit of readers of this site, not any company trying to justify asking for a person’s password.

Just did a lengthy comment on the fly on Blog Herald’s Mental health bloggers trust websites more than therapists entry. Hope I didn’t go overboard.