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Good Tuesday morning!
Here's your weekly, always street-smart
Dose of Dover
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Tuesday, July
22, 2003:
You'd better be careful
when it comes to what you're writing, e-mailing or
viewing on your computer at work! More companies are
hiring a new breed of snoops called Human Resource
Forensics Experts to look through your hard drive:
They might be doing it when you're
away from your desk (overnights are a popular option),
or they might be looking into your computer during
the day if you're on a network. The fact is
that nothing is private if you're on their
equipment and doing it on their time. Quick, go
delete all of those porno sites from your browser's
history, and then check
out Marci Alboher Nusbaum's eye-opening story from The
New York Times.....
The rules of the credit reporting world are
about to expire! Good,
bad or ugly, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) has
been out there "protecting" us from assorted
credit bureau misdeeds for 33 years. But believe
or not, the FCRA's about to expire!
Read
all about it here.
Identity Theft/Part II - First
she lost her gig on The Practice, and now Lara Flynn
Boyle's lost her identity: Not
in a Hollywood sorta way, but in a move even more
destructive than a pink slip from the network, when
thieves broke into her home last month, in addition to a
buncha jewelry, they pilfered her Social Security
Number. Read
all about it here.....
Identity Theft/Part III - Didja
hear about the latest beneficiaries of stolen
identities? Pedophiles! A
convicted pedophile, using a stolen Social Security
Number, not only escaped detection but gained custody of
a 12-year old foster child. Incredible...now
you can read the rest of the story here.
Identity Theft/Part IV - Some
new laws went on the books earlier this month that will
supposedly help protect us from the bad guys...especially
if you live in the Sun Belt states: California,
Texas and Indiana put some teeth into new anti-theft
laws; read
Sandra Block's complete story from USA Today.....
Got
credit problems? (Know someone that does?) Wanna
know more about the inner-workings of that black hole
known as the credit reporting bureau?
You can get a digital copy of Ben's 1993 bestseller Life
After Debt on-line, right now. Read
how right here.....
If you're moving somewhere/sometime
soon, let's hope you're taking advantage of
these (still extremely attractive) interest rates
and getting serious about buying or trading up
to a new home. And
while you're at it, why not get some cash back
on your next home purchase?
(I'll
show you how.) Click here.....
E-Mail, Part I -
Wanna tell "W" what a good job he's
doing? The White House is making it easier for
you, thanks to The New York Times:
The White House Web site began more prominently
featuring the president's e-mail address a
couple of days ago, adding the
president's e-mail address to the main contacts
page. Recent spikes in White
House website traffic resulted from an
article in The New York Times about
the relatively cumbersome process involved in
sending an e-mail letter to the president.
E-Mail, Part
II - The French
continue to give us ammo to use against them:
The latest from the world of punks that would be
goose-stepping around the Eiffel Tower if
it wasn't for us? France's
Culture Ministry (sounds like a buncha
socialist crapola to me) thinks the term
"e-mail" is too non-French.
Read
the entire story here...
You don't have to
fly across the Atlantic to get a taste of this
latest French-based silliness, either:
A quick trip to our 51st state (Canada) and to
the right will put you in a North
American pocket of snobbery.....
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Newsletter right
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The path to Hell is
paved with good intentions...but did you know it's
located in New Mexico?
Those gosh-darned Satanic souvenier hunters are at it
again, this
time "permanently borrowing" 15-20 signs
from U.S. Highway 666.
Amazing...and who was the dim-witted Department of
Highways tool who thought "666" would
be a good "number" for a highway? I
mean, I know it can get pretty desolate out in that
part of the country, but they should've seen that one
coming. Read
the whole story here.....
Here's why you'll be
saying goodbye to free matches at your local
restaurant in the not-so-distant future:
Tesoro
Trattoria, a downtown Los Angeles
restaurant, got rid of its matches after California's
statewide smoking ban went into full effect in 1998.
Now, it offers business cards. Matches still
play a big role at Cheers,
the Boston bar that inspired the long-lived TV show.
Most tourists want to leave with a keepsake. Still,
when the bar finishes off the matches it has on hand,
it is considering a shift to souvenir buttons. Demand
for restaurant matches isn't what it used to be as
more localities ban smoking in dining establishments
and bars. Mr. Stuart and many other owners say they
plan to use up their supplies and then let
the once-ubiquitous restaurant matchbook fade
into history. Read
Audrey Warren's complete story from yesterday's Wall
Street Journal.
Speaking of
brain-damage, check out the new section for
Californians that'll help you get a handle on your
rights if you do decide to pull the ripcord
(that's slang for filing for bankruptcy) on
your creditors: It's a Q&A
with one of the top bankruptcy attorneys in the
state, and a
chance to debunk the half-truths being spewed by
those bottom-feeding tele-terrorists.
From the "it's
about time" department - Finally!
A retail store fights back: Boston
area-based Filene's
Basement told two sisters to
take their business elsewhere because of their
excessive returns of merchandise and their
complaining. Amazing,
true and worth a read.....
Since you're in the
middle of planning for the long Labor Day
weekend (now only 38 days away): Really
stretch your travel budget and get your Thanksgiving
or Christmas-time travel planning handled
now. Check out Ben's easy choice
for hotel rooms and condo deals: www.hotels.com.
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