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As this is a long weekend, and the summer is coming to an end, I decided to make use of it. I will be offline for the next 4 days and will come back on 5th September.

Enjoy your weekend !

Tags: Announcements

As many of you know, I sell some of my premium wordpress themes at WP Theme Shop and people can pay for the theme using Paypal and download the theme immediately.

If a fraudulent person knows someone’s paypal user id and password, they can use it and download the theme. Since they entered the right user id and password, no one knows if this was entered by a fraud, and they can safely run away with the theme.

Now, that someone realizes this transaction is not done by him and disputes it with PayPal. Paypal is always on the buyer’s side and they pull the money from my account and give it back to the buyer and then everyone is happy !

Wait !

1. Paypal is happy as their only job is satisfy the buyer. Their Seller Protection Policy covers only products that can shipped. They do not cover intangible goods [like in this case, a wordpress theme].
2. The buyer is happy as he got his money back.
3. The fraud is happy as he got one of my premium themes without paying a penny and without getting caught.

but I am still at a loss here.
How do I prevent this from happening again? Please throw in your ideas to solve this issue.

Thanks.
Also Read:
Beware of these Paypal Payments !

Tags: fraudulent, payment, Paypal

Pownce has opened up for new signups, without an invite !
Go ahead and Enjoy !

Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends and I should add “quick way”. Right now, only people with an Invite can sign up and try it.

Thanks to Om Malik, I was able to enter and now it is my turn to invite you guys and gals into it.

If you want an invite, let me know by writing a comment here.

Tags: Invites, Pownce

You could call me an Apple Fanboy, if you learned that I could not resist the temptation to buy the iPhone on its launch day [yesterday] within a few hours from 6PM.

Its a really really amazing toy that I am exploring right now!

Tags: apple, fanboy, iphone

I have been thinking of writing about this stuff, since the day my daughter was born, but never got around to actually putting it down.

I noticed this at the Labor and Delivery room, in the hospital here in the US. The head-nurse, who was supposed to be helping my wife with the delivery, had to go to a computer terminal every 10 minutes to log the events happening at the delivery room.
I took a quick peek at the terminal and watched her writing comments like “mom is pushing hard, husband standing by the side and encouraging” and stuff similar to that.

Every time she comes around and shouts “1, 2, 3 PUSH”, spends a few minutes and goes back to the computer, feeding data.
She was doing this even after the delivery, inputting height / weight and other details of the new born.

and the other thing is, the hospital had introduced a new system in place, and this nurse took a long time to figure out how things work in this new system and believe it or not, she did all the typing with her index finger, looking at the keyboard and monitor making sure when she types “A”, the monitor displays “A”.

My questions is “WHY ???”

Whose fault is this ? is it the hospital that makes these old nurses [less comfortable with operating a computer] to do this whole data entry ? or is it the way we are all heading now, focussing more on technology and forgetting the real humane value.?

While doing all these new technology, we are totally lost on the basic duty of the nurse. isnt it?

Where are we heading ?

Tags: Living In America, Technology Meets Life

I happened to see this funny Ad for McDonalds at MSN SoapBox.

Lets see if I am able to embed the player on this site and play it.
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Tags: Funny