Mark Edward Brown's Blog

Every Sunday I reflect on the past week and stratagize on how I can make the upcoming week better.  This past week was a challenging one which made me angry because some low life hacker first hacked my  i-tunes account and bought  several items with my credit card that was on file at i-tunes.  This was  Monday morning, did you know that when I tried to reach their customer service I found out that you  have to pay them to assist you or resolve the problem you are calling them about?

I don’t know who the genius customer support dictator is over at apple but their definition of customer  support is un-American!  So finally when I do get an e-mail response from them they told me all sales are  final no matter what and I will have to initiate a charge back through my credit card company.

I immediately removed my credit card and froze my account with it-tunes and don’t plan to use their service again – they really ticked me off!

The very next day my yahoo e-mail account had been hacked into and I had to request the password and reset it.  Mr. Hacker got into my personal e-mail account, changed settings, deleted all my folders and sent a nasty e-mail to my wife and who knows who else.  The Yahoo customer service staff was very helpful and they recovered all of my data to my satisfaction – I am a big fan of Yahoo now, even bigger than before!

I informed my wife that these nefarious actions were taking place and as a result we had to cancel our debit cards, what a pain in the butt that was.  Now, I’m stuck in Korea with no access to my money until I get my new debit card.  Oh don’t worry, I always have a contingency plan and will be just fine.

I further discovered that that dirty, low life hacker hacked into my member accounts at the two Traffic Exchanges that I own and deleted my accounts out of there as well – arghhhhh….

My good friend and web wizard Dan Moses was able to recover my accounts quickly so that I did not lose any time in marketing and advertising my blogs or other websites.

All in all I was busier then a one legged man in a butt kicking contest so when the weekend arrived I was one happy dude.  I did a video conference with my wife and kids, wished them a Happy Easter, told them how much I Loved and missed them and I have been working away feverishly behind my key board ever since.

I don’t like to dwell on the negative aspects of life but what is one of the times when you had a memorably tough experience?  Leave me a comment and tell me how you got through it or got over it, I’m all ears.

To Your Success Always,

Mark Edward Brown