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Don’t hang up … I want to sell you a loan? Aren’t you a foreigner?

ByObblogatory July 20, 2022

https://tw.forumosa.com/t/combating-mobile-phone-spam/221798/20 I answered a couple of weeks ago a call from a guy shoveling loans for a major credit card vendor in Taipei. Cold calling is really a tough nut to crack. Anyway, I told him I was at work, but he still insisted that he would talk to me. Poor guy! It’s a tough…

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Stormpay Sucks… Really

ByObblogatory December 7, 2006

I used to be a customer of Stormpay, but I have quit in disgust. Eventually, I had $4 in an account there, which I couldn’t withdraw because of the change in terms (an additional $2.00 was required for a check – it used to be free as it was covered by the HIGH transaction fees)….

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Letters to Mom!

ByObblogatory June 15, 2024

I wrote a series of letters to Mom. I’ve got no idea if she ever read them, she never referred to the contents much, if at all. She never wrote a reply, I’m hoping that if she didn’t read them, she’ll be reading them now as I’m reposting here… because I just can’t delete them,…

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H1N1, Cleanliness and your Internals!

ByObblogatory June 6, 2009

With recent hot temperatures in Taiwan, H1N1 and various viruses have reared their ‘heads’ as usual. So we decided to take things into our own ‘hands’ after we saw how the kids would wash their hands. Since Taiwan is a tropical climate, we were appalled at how children here would ‘wash’ their hands, so to…

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ICRT vs. the Internet: Results?

ByObblogatory June 28, 2012

The future of radio in terms of ICRT type programming is challenging to say the least, I find that I tend to list to a lot of music streams, podcasts, and downloads (all legit since I don’t do illegal downloading at all, but many younger listeners don’t differentiate), rather than talk radio. But that’s probably…

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From Little Burma to Hongludi

ByObblogatory March 31, 2024

That was a nice walk!

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