Mozilla SOPA Protest

Hey TWG readers, It’s been a long while since I’ve posted but this warranted attention! We’re all aware of the PIPA/SOPA bills that the US Government was trying to pass and we’re all very aware of the Global Blackout that was plastered all over websites, in protest of this infringement on the Freedom of Speech and Information. But as the Government has shown time and time again over the last ten plus years, they don’t care what the people think any more and will do what is necessary to line their pockets and keep themselves in office. (continue reading…)

I’ve just about finished moving all my sites from 1and1 to Lunarpages. The blog has been moved to the proper domain, www.travellingwebguy.com, and working on getting my r3ddstudios.com taken off Googles malware list…. Long story short, a friend from San Diego emailed me asking me what my blog site was. Passed it on and didnt check my site for a while. A friend told there was something wrong with my site, I checked it and sure enough, malware warning! Looks like the friend located some script kiddy file and brute forced the old servers.

No matter now, all good and on a much better platform!

This is just a quick rant here! This morning I saw a charge on my account for $139.99 from something called Buyers Advantage. I have never signed up for anything like this, nor was I aware of what this was. SO naturally, I’m a little upset and want to know just what the hell this is. I do some Googling for “Buyers Advantage charged me $139.99″ and I find hundreds of pages where people are asking the same exact question I was… “What the hell is this charge?” So feeling a little better that I wasn’t alone, I started to read some of the post and saw that a good amount of these users bought a tool called Pedi-Paws, a dog nail filer. We were sent an $8 dollar check from the company thanking us for the purchase and a “Rebate” check. What was written in, very fine-small details, that is if you cash or deposit this check, you are “opting” in for this buyers advantage program in which they will bill you $139.99 per year. (continue reading…)