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Book Reviews
Don't Send a Resume: And Other Contrarian Rules to Help Land a Great Job
Author: Jeffrey J. Fox
Rating: 5
Review: A very good book, that I highly recommend to everyone. Some of the practices recommended here don't work as well today has they probably did in 2000, but over all, worth looking into and adding parts or most of the book to your tools for job hunting!
History of Philosophy, Volume 1 (History of Philosophy)
Author: Frederick Copleston
Rating: 3
Review: The book was very one sided to the Author's thoughts and views. He only posted parts of philosophy that supported his views, and not the whole picture as presented by Plato and such. He also left too much text in Greek, which the "lay person" probably doesn't know. (I know I don't yet!) That said, I guess it was an OK review of the early philosophical teachers.
St Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica (translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province) (5 Volume Set)
Author: Thomas Aquinas
Rating: 4
Review: WOW! Be serious about the desire to read this book. It was hard to read at times, and required a lot of time and concentration to "get it". That said, it is used by the Catholic Church as the foundation for the current teachings of the Church, so it is an important read. Gets a 4 of 5 because of the way it is set up, which makes it hard to read.
Ok, I understand that banks are in business to make money for the owners of the bank, just like any other business. But, the fees they charge just drive me nuts!
One of the most annoying fee they charge is the one they charge a person when someone writes this person a check, and the person takes it to the bank on the check to cash. Now, this person with the check written to them doesn’t bank at this bank for one reason or another. So, when (s)he goes to cash the check they are hit for a, normally, $5.00 fee to cash it, “because you don’t have an account here”. This is out right theft.
And here is why I feel this is wrong. So, I go to cash a check that is written via a Bank X account. I don’t like Bank X for reason or another (non close to me or what not, or another bank had better hours, or had a better “gift” at sign up, etc, and there are many hundreds of banks!), so I don’t have an account there. I am now having to pay a penalty for not banking with them, instead of the person that banks with them paying a penalty for banking with them instead of my bank.
I have been told in the past that I could “deposit it in your own bank, there would be no fee”. Ok, what about those of us that don’t have, nor want a bank account? (I have one, just not in this State, I move around so much, and I am X military, so I use USAA, which is one of the best bank systems out there!)
This fee, just like many of their fees, is pure highway robber as far as I’m concerned. But I guess the fees are better than those banks that won’t cash THEIR ACCOUNTS CHECKS at their tellers unless YOU have an account there too. Isn’t THEIR check LEGAL TENDER in THEIR BANK? That is my understanding anyway!
Oh well, some banks just shouldn’t be around… (You hear that Chase?)
A few weeks ago I set up a Yessy account to try to sell two of my paintings I have (see original post here). You get a 14 day free trail to see if you want to keep using it. So, I set up the free account.
On day 13 of the 14 days, I figured that it would probably not work for me, so I followed the instructions to shut down the account, as I did not want to be charged $59.00/year for something I didn’t think was working for me. On day 15 I went back to my account to check it out. Hmmm… My two paintings were back in “Active” status, and being shown again. I canceled it yet again.
The next day I was charged for the account, which I had now turned off twice. I sent a customer support email to Yessy asking what happened. They informed me that I had not canceled the account and gave me instructions on how to cancel. So I click on the link they provided (which took me to the same place I had been to twice before) and sure enough the account was active again. I clicked on it and shut it down for the third time.
Now, I admit my first email was a bit cranky, saying that I would like my money back. Their response was not friendly, but not overly unfriendly. Their second response was that I had not canceled again, and that there would be no refunds.
After being told I didn’t know what I was doing, I informed them that I was stopping payment/contesting the payment, and would pass it on to legal action if need be.
I then get this from them at the end of their reply to my comments:
If you still put the blame on us, then all I can say is be prepared for
the karma and hopefully someday you’ll learn to take responsibility for
yourself instead of pointing fingers.
Now, my Ph.D. is in Comp Sci, and my specialty is in data security and integrity. For the last several months I’ve been working on a program that would reside on the computer (or a “monitor” computer) and track all action, time stamping the traffic with a special logarithm that is “secure”. I had the program running on my laptop for testing purposes and “fine tuning” the code. I went back and looked at the days involved, and sure enough the page, each time, showed me that I deleted the site each time, not turning it back on in the middle. I informed “Doug”, the guy that has been emailing me, about the software and today I get this email:
I challenge you to send us your proof and make us eat our words. If you
make me upset enough, I may also be inclined to waste more time by
combing our logs for your activity.
Doug
Isn’t that great customer support!? If he sends me the physical mailing address, I’ll take the time to remove those items that were captured that have nothing to do with the event, print it out and mail it to him, just because, but the main thing I will be doing is say:
STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY!! VERY POUR CUSTOMER SUPPORT, AND THEY WILL CHARGE YOU EVEN IF YOU FOLLOW THEIR REMOVAL PROCESSES!
Well, AT&T stuck hard this morning. They accepted my payment a few days ago, then say someone called in as me and asked for the account to be shut down. After paying $99.00 for the month of July. And they kept the money too! I need to pay another $99.00 to get the service turned back on. My account is SUPPOSED to have a password on it that they are supposed to ask for, but it appears they didn’t. (They haven’t asked me for it the past three or four times I’ve had to call over the last 6 months or so myself…) IF they had asked for the password, and they are not to ask for anything OTHER than the password, as the rest of the things they would asked can easily be compromised, this would not have happened.
So, for those of you that have my phone number, it’s dead at the moment. I am working on getting it back up soon!
After a bit over a year, it FINALLY happened! Interactive Digital Multimedia, Inc. has finally gone public. The great day was this past Friday at 1000 hours! The trading symbol is IDMU and it is an OTC stock at this time. The goal of the company is to be able to trade on the “Open NASD” market within 24 months! Yes, it may be a penny stock now, but I am betting it won’t be within a few months!
This company has a great product, the best digital book format you will find, that can help the reader learn more and retain more!
Well, I have said that I am done with school for a while. Not so. I am taking myself through the self study process for getting a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) issued. The exam is pretty intense from what I understand, so the study and work to achieve this certification has started as of today! Lots on my schedule, but I feel it’s time to start getting those certifications that will make me even more marketable. After I get the CISSP I will probably go on for other security related certifications as well. I MAY even go on and get my networking credentials as well.
Yesterday my fourth book ( ) from InBubbleWrap.com arrived in the mail!
I’m telling ya folks, if you are into reading business and self help books, this is a web site you should be checking daily! He holds a daily “contest” to see who will win a new book each day! All you have to do is read over the “ad” for the book, click on a link, answer two silly, and yes, I mean silly, questions, and you have a good chance of winning a great book! All of the books I have read are “main line” books, often just recently out, that have been (with one exception) well worth the read!
So, if you read business/self help books, go to InBubbleWrap.com and get to checking it out! No, I make no money on this, no I don’t win more for advertising it for InBubbleWrapGuy, and yes, I stand the chance of not winning as much, but this is too good not to share!
I just realized that I am re-reading books now. , , and next . All three books I’ve read before, but mostly a while ago, with Da Vinci being the most recent.
I should be reading the two books on the planning to read list that I haven’t read, but they are sitting on my desk awaiting the finishing of these three books. I guess I needed a break from business types of books? (Those last two, and , where hard to read, maybe that is why I’m taking a business book break?)
Jay posted a comment on his blog today that made me nod my head in agreement about time management and taking the time out to do what needs to be done.
I keep saying I don’t have the time to do many things I should be doing each and every day. Exercise, homework, selling Watkins (both the products and the opportunity), spending quality time working with and playing with Kodi, eating right, and a few other things.
All along I haven’t made those things the priority part of me says they should be. After reading his comments, which I found via BlogExplosion, I’ve had a sitdown talk with myself and have re-evaluated what I should be doing and what I WILL be doing each day!
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