I opened a Paypal account when I was living in France. It's been two years I moved back to the United States. Today, I offer services as a freelance. I very often get paid through Paypal. After a $2,500 limit of money received in my account, Paypal requested that I send them info on the nature of my...

These are my links for March 5th through March 9th: Sharing Is Caring: 12 Unexpected Examples Of Car Part Prostitution - How car parts are re-used. YTMND - it’s drinking the water - The greatest invention in the world. HearJapan - Japan Nite US TOUR 2009 Sampler - Six interesting free songs fr...

"I'm making this up as I go along." Sound familiar? As much as I've been around the block once (okay, twice), there are still many things for me to learn. I need to give myself credit, and say yes, I know a lot. But I don't know it all. That being said, when one of my virtual assistance clients need...

Juan Zamora is a man. A man with a '94 Camaro which undoubtedly has some Rad to the power of Sick flames painted on the sides. Anyway, he bought $26 worth of petrol at the station and paid with his Paypal debit card. Only problem was, Paypal reported he pumped $81,400,836,908 worth of petrol! Now th...

By exploiting loopholes in their policies, scammers are using eBay, Paypal and UPS to rip unsuspecting sellers off, like reader Chad. The buyer reported the item as "destroyed" and demanded and got a refund from Paypal. When the buyer shipped it back to Chad and he opened it, he found there was noth...

It is often striking to me to watch the majority of internet companies (both startups and established market leaders) only focusing on the US users for all their business operations. It is more than disappointing to see this approach when you are an international user yourself - and a user who wants...

Filed under: Late Night, Web, Reality-Free Did you ever watch Late Night with Conan O'Brien and wish you had that Gen. Eisenhower coffee mug that just sat oh so daintily on the cusp of your television to decorate your home decor? First of all, if you said yes, you have the gayest living room decor s...

Filed under: Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG) One of the market's biggest criticisms of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is that it offers a large number of products that don't make the company money. To make matters worse, some of these offerings will probably never bring in a dime and that is a big drag o...

I've been kind of slacking on the HMK Mystery Stream Posts the last few months - down from one every 7-10 days to one a month! But looking at these stats and knowing that there are 3,000+ subscribers (Thank You!) drooling as they wait for the next mysterious episode (I kid, I joke, I exaggerate - I ...

Now that I think about the nightmare that setting my PayPal account was initially some 3 years ago, I can’t help but feel that I will hardly ever be able to employ enough efforts to go through the procedure again even if I have to. I have already written about the multiple limitations that man...