the times of kryptoniteglows

I’m so exhausted, but I can’t sleep. I really want to, but just can’t go to sleep. I think I need some of that Lunesta from TV…

So many odd things pop to mind for no reason…

-Don’t know how to take a picture using the optical lens (or whatever the little square thing you look out of is called), can’t imagine taking a picture without the lcd display

-Not a big fan of Apple, and my shuffle is broken (it doesn’t update with itunes correctly like 90% of the time), yet I’m still looking to buying another Apple branded mp3 player and even laptop.

-I cut my lawn today, all by myself, cookie for me

-I need more exercise, I’m back at my weight 2.5 years ago

-Need a vacation, just don’t know where I should go, did fill out the passport thing and will probably go to PO tomorrow….if I wake up early enough

-I don’t really know how to use my printer/scanner software

-So many others think I’m a computer guru, yet I know hardly all that much

-I’m always shocked by how little others know

-I favor my own writings, and everybody else’s writing style pisses me off, makes me hate proof-reading. I have to decide what they have done is actually incorrect, or if I just like it better my way.

-Still thinking about a new laptop, even though I hardly use this one. I turn it on maybe once every week or two.

-I want to buy $100+ sunglasses, my mother would kill me so I’ll probably tell her they were $10 and she would still think it was to much…

-I want to buy $300+ watch, but I’ve never really worn a watch since I’ve got a cell phone that even tells me the date.

-I want to buy so many things, yet I’m suppose to live off of $800 for the next 3 months.

-I’ve used half of that budget with a new cell phone and a new digital camera, maybe the $5000 balance transfer wasn’t so good an idea even if it’s at 0% APR.

-My credit score has dropped 34 points because of my recent credit applications and it’s now only 35% better than others versus the previous 45% better before. The magic number is apparently 760 to have excellent credit.

-For some reason, my credit score matches at all 3 credit bureaus even though they each have different information regarding my inquires and such….

-My credit score/report is so much more trouble than it’s worth because of my move and my previous address being a commercial address.

-There are some many lip synced versions of Barbie Girl on Google Videos.

-Trying to wrap my head around why there are so many asian boys lip syncing to the Backstreet Boys…

-Wonder what is up with some of the search strings that brings people to my site

kryptoniteglows

myspace onlyultimate

angry face

pacman emoticon

jeep funny picture

“sorry when i’m dead” “take a lifetime” “kingdom come”

Citibank Overdraft Protection Special Offer Codes

funny pictures of M&M candy guys

deltech tuition1

“she never comprimises”

pictures of carebears

silly surveys

pointless blog surveys

deltech blackboard

LARSON, FUND.ACCT.PRIN.VOL.1 W/WKPPRS-W/CD+RPRT

liquid light glows.com

nickleback lyrics ” i like your pants”

“Everyone makes mistakes. It is what you do afterwards that counts.”

lyrics to pants around your feet by nickleback

camgirlslive

Madagascar film “little baby lemur”

Hsbc checking “get my checks”

verizon-what is in calling peak minutes

how to make kryptonite alcoholic drink

ud kids rewards codes

mbna sucks salary

under 16xxx fucking

color card winter 2008

p3wed

Where can I buy Haribo Gold Bears in Virginia

“daddy wrestles alligators, mama works on carborators”

pictures of carebears

-It’s been so long since I last rebooted my desktop, that I think it forgot. It doesn’t get past the Compaq splash screen (yea I know….but it uber cheap)

-Wondering when I’m ever going to get to installing my rapator drive, 10,000 rpms!

-What’s up with those cars that follow the “Wide loads”, I mean if I didn’t see the huge boat/trailer/other big thing, what makes them think I’m gonna see the dinky ford escort following it? Why even waste gas for it? Even better yet is that I saw an SUV being the follower for a boat being transported.

-What would happen if I have 2 paypass enabled credit cards and I swiped them both in front of the machine?

-Can’t figure my dental insurance thing, I’m confused why I have a different provider dental and healthcare… the GE search thing is weird….

-Thongs = bad

-Allergies = teh suck = uber bad

-Why does every single other link that was part of the PayPal phising scam still work, I’m the only one that has actually taken down the stuff….

-think I’m finally tired enough to sleep……zzzzzzzzz

So I’ve had to take down my coppermine gallery because someone was able to exploit it via a built in upload script which allowed them to upload some pages that redirected to a PayPal Phising site. In addition, it allowed them to upload a script that could have basically erased the entire contents of my site. Guess maybe I should of updated it since I put it up and probably not a good idea to have used “coppermine” as the directory name as one could easily search for it and record the version I was running then use the known vulnerabilities to be all l33t and pwn me :(. The name of kryptoniteglows.com has been tarnished by the incident, I’ve been contacted numerous times in the past few days in regards to the whole PayPal phising thing. I guess I should of noticed when someone randomly sent a message saying I was scammer, but of course no other helpful information. Then someone registered on the Coppermine gallery as FBI is coming after me for the information, again nothing specifically pointing out what the hell they were talking about. Then I guess one of these people reported the site to PayPal who eventually contacted the hosting provider or where I work! Couldn’t be more embarrassed when one of my co-workers asked me if it was my site… I took it down immediately of course. Upon further investigation, I found more little scripts the bandit had left on my site, decided it was best to take down the entire gallery until I find something more secure… In the meantime I’ve left a page telling the people stupid enough to click on the link that their email was clearly not from PayPal and they ought to do some reading on spoofing and phising. Left a link to the actual site that captures the data as well, looks like that is still up, has a .it TLD, guess the Italians aren’t as diligent in stopping scammers. Since then I’ve received a number of more emails ranging from threatening to sympathetic, sometimes all in the same message.

What gets me is why would you for such an obvious scam? Despite the URL not listing the real PayPal site. There are so many other clues. The site that is linked, it does look like the official PayPal site, but all the links at the bottom of the page don’t work because it’s actually an image, probably intended to display the Verisign logo. Then once you do login, which it will let you even if you put in a bunch of junk and even replicates the loading in 5 seconds like on the real site, you are immediately confronted with a form asking for more detail than that would be necessary. Why in the world would a refund request not be genuine? Seriously, who the fuck goes around making fake refund request under fake identities? Then the next dead giveaway is this little trinket of words on the site.

Enter Your Card Information - PayPal recommends using a debit card instead of a credit card, due to the higher security level of these. It’s always safe to use the debit card linked to your checking account that is currently attached to your PayPal account.

Now, who in their right mind believes that? How could it be more safe to use a medium that immediately pulls your money right out of your account? It’s almost as using cash to buy something from that shady guy on the street… Then it even has the guts to ask for your pin number. How are you going to use my pin number over the internet? The next part is a bit of a toss up between being obvious scam or almost smart tactic. The form asks you to provide the last 4 digits of your social security number, with x’s in place of the beginning digits which the form says is not displayed for security. The average user really wouldn’t have their SSN on file with PayPal, unless they have an additional credit or investment product. They do have mine because I have the money market with them, but for the regular buy and sell transactions it’s not on file…

Gotta say I’m a bit surprised by the number of people that contacted me personally about, means they had to click on the damn email then look up all my shit. So it’s been the email from my WHOIS info to the contact form on this blog and then some other form that I have somewhere.. (yes I have no clue where it actually is…)

Now in other news, school is done! Until Monday, in which I begin summer session. Damn it! Why in the world did I choose to try and do four classes over the summer? I’ll probably barely pass them if at all, but I suppose part of me isn’t caring so much because I want so desperately for the classes to be over though I know it’s going to be two years at least. I’m still awaiting a grade for Finite Math, the class I hated so much and am likely to fail : /. Other than that, my grades were mediocre, a little pissed about the B- in World History, I must have done terribly on my final or something, but I though I did good… The only final I left feeling not sick to my stomach.

Got 2 new credit cards, yay for another $7k in credit. Crappy rewards, I’m still likely to just use my citicards, though I just took a $5k balance transfer offer on them, so I wanted to be prepared with enough available credit elsewhere. For some odd reason, the 0% apr is only good for 10 months instead of some other more even amount like a year, but I’ll take what I can get. I could transfer on the other cards, but they want to charge a fee of 3%, so I’ll pass. Did get my credit score, just about 700, below average :(, need to get into that 800 range…

Well work for the next two days then a party then school again with work : /.

Or procrastination, whatever you want to call it. I’ve got a final in less than 2 hour, but I’m writing this instead of studying for it. I was suppose to go to finite, but I haven’t gone to class in over a week. Going to a class four times a week is bit much I think, but I should have been able to do like half, but just didn’t feel like it. I’m so lazy now, how will I ever complete 4 classes over the summer. Why did I think I would? Ugh, sometimes I just suck at impulse decisions…

I bought whole bunch of AMD at $33 because of my single stroke of luck netted me $50 (after commissions) for about 10 minutes of work one day and I though I would do it again. Except this time, I’m down by hundreds. I suppose at least it’s not thousands and I’m not overly desperate for cash. Unfortunately, my mom and her friend follow my steps to purchase this stock and it has been dropping since! Though, I never told them to buy any, I don’t know enough about this whole stock thing, but now I’ve got way to much money tied into it. My other stock I’ve been buying is WWY or Wrigley, it’s been doing so awesome the past 2 days, but I literally own a small tiny pinch of shares. Argg, if only I had bought WWY instead of AMD, I would be highly in the green on my portfolio or black for those traditionalist instead of the red…

So I’m in the red, along with a massively huge credit card bill because I charged my summer tuition and a mini spending spree, the latter of which isn’t even on this statement. Well, at least Friday is payday! I’ll not see a penny, all going to bills, bills, and more bills. Need to cut back on the spending. Need a room mate too, I’ve got a flyer made, but I don’t want to put them up. I like being able to do what I do now, I mean a roommate wouldn’t hinder it so much, but maybe…. Ehh don’t know…

So speaking of avoidance…. I still have trouble making this decision and I avoid it…for months I’ve avoid it or him I guess… Then he comes to me, well not really, but he is there and I know he is there. I’m going back to avoiding because I can’t decide what it should be. Should I just avoid forever and forget it all or can I handle him, just a tiny bit of him? Do I really want to deal with all that if I can easily avoid it all? What benefit for me is there for me to deal? Then I worry of what I lose if I do avoid… Wondering what could of and should of … Can’t live life like that… The time seems better this time because I actually know what I can do, I know I can be self sufficient and not have to depend on him. Where as, two years ago I wasn’t so sure and I was scared of where it would lead me if I choose to just drop everything. Well not everything, but a lot… Of course now I’m stuck not being able to drop anything. Well, I could, but I can’t seem to let myself do it. Trapped in my own freedom, irony at its best…

As a matter of fact, I despise it so now it has its own link category. Can’t believe they choose to code in such crappy ColdFusion. I hate everyone that sticks music in their profile. I hate the way that people personalize their profiles in such a tacky way that I can’t read anything because they were stupid enough to think making the text their favorite color and the background their favorite color was a good idea. Then those ulgy images… Yes I hate MySpace and yet I joined.
I am ashamed that I’ve succumbed.

Oh and I was 5 minutes late for work today, got a little chewed out for it : /. But then of course I was there for 55 minutes after my shift ended 55 > 5… I need to go in exactly on time and leave exactly on time no matter if things are sucking. Though I guess I had it coming because last Saturday I was over an hour late, though I stayed for nearly 2 more hours after my shift… Gotta stop with that, salary sucks! At least with hourly I had an incentive to get there as early as possible and if I had to say late, it wasn’t a big deal as long as I was getting paid :). Yes, all about the money…

So I’m not in on the study abroad for Europe. On the waitlist which is basically the polite way of saying we don’t want you. The crappy thing is that this program wasn’t that competitive at all, it was about 30 people if that going after 24/25 spots. It means a handful get weeded off and I was part of the handful. Supposedly we’ll know if any spots free up in the next 2 weeks, aka any kids can’t make the $1200 deposit. I don’t even know if I’ll do if a spot frees up because personally I feel like it was slap in the face. I felt totally offended at the interview by them asking if I had questions for them, and not asking me any. I mean seriously, I’ve come to the information sessions before hand to get my questions answered and I’ve put down NONREFUNDABLE deposit, I better of had all my questions asked and answered already. I’m not like some of these rich UD kids that can just throw a few hundred dollars around like that. Now I’m on the waitlist, so even if a spot opens up for me, I’ll know I was a second choice. I wasn’t good enough to be picked initially, do I really want to be there now? On the other hand, it is an awesome opportunity and I’ll get to see so many things that I wouldn’t be able to on a trip on my own. Almost one of those once in a lifetime opportunities. I will not do a study abroad in Winter 2008, so this Winter 2007 is the only chance I have of doing any study abroad. The only program I can apply for now is to Peru, I don’t want to go to Peru! Plus it cost almost the same as Europe, but Peru is like so much crappier, no offense to Peru….

So to cheer myself up, I’ve bought a new cell phone which I guess may or may not be coming because my credit may or may not require a deposit with Verizon. If it’s the latter, I can’t do an order online, silly bastages… I suppose I can place the order again and use my dad’s info. [Which reminds me of something fairly unrelated, I had my dad apply for a credit card where you get 5pt/$1 on grocery and gas, but he got denied for not having enough revolving balances. Then he gets a preapproved offer from the same credit card company for a completely different card, since it offered a $100 bonus for opening the account, went ahead with it and he gets a substantial credit line instantly! Pretty much one that took me 9 months to obtain and a special request. So why did he get rejected for the first card, but then gets this card? Makes no sense seeing as they are the same company! The first application, properly triggered this preapproval offer. I have cards with the same company and lately they have been sending me preapprovals for really crappy cards at gas stations I NEVER go to plus zero rewards so what is the point? Silly company, I’ll keep using my shiny card that gives me 5 points/$1 for gas anywhere I go] In addition, I have spent over a hundred bucks on toys and stuff, thanks to Amazon’s little toy sale I am done birthday shopping and Christmas shopping, I just need some birthday gift wrapping paper and I’m set. I think I actually got to many things because I bought a bunch of stuff earlier that is at my parent’s house, but it’s all good, some of it can go to Toys for Tots or something.

My allergies were acting up so badly at the beginning of the week :(, I even had to call out from work on Wednesday. I’m trying to figure out if they have really gotten this out of hand or if I got a bad batch of Advil Allergy Sinus because I took the pills from my purse today that originally came from a different package than the ones I was taking earlier in the week and I was fairly ok for most of the day. My infection is coming back again too, I can feel it, odd I know… So I guess I’ll take the antibiotics I got prescribed… They are so nasty, I’m suppose to take them with food, I made the mistake of taking them with chips. I had to chew the chips before I could swallow them so the pill dissolved a little and it was so horrible! I wanted to throw up. Plus the whole no alcohol thing or you’ll end up really really sick thing sucks too. I have too little tolerance for alcohol as is.

On the school stuff again, my excel class is done and so is my accounting class. I think I flunked the final and I’ll be setting the bottom of the curve again. It’s not like it’s hard, but I just can’t remember all the rules. I should of jotted some notes into my calculator… CISC exam is Tuesday followed by History on Thursday and the Finite on the following Monday. I haven’t started studying for any of them and I also need to finish up my SAP stuff, but it’s so hard because they are always shutting down the SAP server in the middle of the night and on the weekends, basically all the times I can actually work on it!

Work all day tomorrow and for the love of God I seriously hope I can get my butt there early because I’ve been pretty much late all the flipping time. Over an hour last weekend, for some reason my phone was on vibrate…. I also ordered a new alarm clock on my little shopping spree because the one I had bought before is kinda teh suxor! Get what I pay for right? I don’t know what it is with me and alarm clocks always breaking. The BEST alarm clock was my old Nokia cell phones. They were loud and easily set and just worked! If I didn’t crack the screen on my 3361 I would probably still use that thing.