Chris K. Taylor

I’ve always said that despite making life easier to a certain extent, I have never been a huge fan of mobile phones. Recently though I have come to the realisation that it is not the phones themselves, but a reasonably large percentage of the people using them that wind me up. And yes, I use one. I became aware of this distinction since I took on a new job about an hour from home, by bus.
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Either I’m just suspicious by nature but something doesn’t seem right…

From an email that landed in my inbox from PayPal<service@peypel.com> entitled “Update Your Account Information”

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Security Center

Military Grade Encryption is Only the Start

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Recently, our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with PayPal’s User Agreement access to your account will be limited. This is a fraud prevention measure meant to ensure that your account is not compromised.

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[Link snipped for safety]

Ignoring our request, for an extended period of time, may result in account limitations or may result in eventual account closure.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is
a security measure meant to help protect you and your account.
We apologize for any inconvenience.

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PayPal Email ID PP522

*Please do not respond to this e-mail as your reply will not be received.

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No typos other than the obvious one, which seems strange as the link was to (I assume from the domain, I didn’t bother clicking) an academic site’s blog.

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I’ve modified the title of the category for my trip to Japan, it has been named from Kyoto 2008 to Japan 2008 to include the time spent in Ohara and Osaka.

Sorry, poor planning on my part there, live and learn.

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OK so 4 posts a week was a little ambitious, maybe 4 posts a month at this rate. I’ve uploaded some more photos and I’m going to try (I think a little of the old ‘planning ahead’ is needed for this) to get more up this week.

The first three are from Kyoto and the rest were taken in Ohara - Musashi Village (Okayama)

While we didn’t get to see as much of Kyoto as I wanted (a tendon injury meant that I was in the hotel room for the whole day on our free morning) we were able to return for a few hours after visiting Ohara where Mark managed to get some photos of the Heian Shrine - my camera batteries were dead. We did manage to spend some time around the Musashi Dojo where we trained and spent the night (Many thanks to Hanshi for arranging this and the sensei who gave thir time to watch and instruct) before heading to Kyoto to pick up the bags and head for Izumisano, near Kansai Airport in Osaka. The countryside was a nice change. As much as I enjoyed Kyoto, it was so much more peaceful.

I’ll upload some more pictures from Ohara this week, as I said before. I also have a disposable camera that needs developing, when I get around to using the last of the film.

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