There are a bunch of fraudulent charges on my credit card. They called me because of some suspicious activities just to verify that I didn’t make the charges, and now I’m waiting for a call back to go over everything in more detail. How do they determine that a charge is suspicious? Is it because there are a bunch of them at once? Maybe I just went on a shopping spree. Is it because the places aren’t in my area? You can order things online obviously, or travel. At this point, I know of some charges from PayPal, Perry Ellis, and Google. It’s not like they’re fake names, so I wouldn’t think any of them would appear to be suspicious right away. Yet they did call me right away because the charges were just made yesterday and today. I guess they’ll just stop payment on the charges and give me a new account number. It’s good to know they catch things like this right away, and I don’t have to notice it later and then fight to prove that whatever purchase wasn’t mine. I know people who have had to do that and it sucks.

Response to killings show Hokie spirit
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There was a benefit last night for Sean McQuade, the boy from my high school who was injured at VT. It was at the Dippy’s Ice Cream in Mantua. They donated 10% of the proceeds, and the girls who work there donated their time and all of their tip money. You couldn’t get parking anywhere near the place and there was a constant line going all through the parking lot for the whole 3 hours. It turns out they raised over $3,000. I saw a lot of people I hadn’t seen since high school 5 years ago and it was just really great that all these people pulled together, especially since the majority of them don’t even know the guy. Here’s a video from Fox news. More pictures here: http://www.seanmcquade.faithweb.com/photo.html

I recently ran across some motorcycle video blogs by a Canadian guy living in Taiwan. He’s got a helmet cam he uses to record different rides, also does some funny stuff.

Some videos:
Bikers like to Wave
A True Biker – ATGATT
Ride through mountains / techno

more here: http://livevideo.com/mordeth13