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

At PayPal, we want to increase your security and comfort level with every transaction. From our Buyer and Seller Protection Policies to our Verification and Reputation systems, we’ll help to keep you safe.

PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.

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.

In order to secure your account we may require some specific information from you. We encourage you to log in by clicking on the link below and complete the requested form as soon as possible.

[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.

Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department

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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I have more or less one week to go now and still no theme/template for this site. After toying with the idea of bodging something together and promptly deciding against it, I now have two options: use a template designed and offered for download by someone else or leave the default template in place.
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First of all, welcome to anyone who reads this. My name is Chris, I’m 31 and the rest will be added to an ‘About’ page soon enough.

So, why blog? I thought about starting up again about a year ago but I couldn’t think of a reason to start, now I can. On the 23rd April I will be flying to Japan to attend the DNBK 2008 World Butoku Sai in Kyoto where I will be studying and demonstrating Iaido, more about that later though. While I’m there I will, hopefully, be using this as a travel journal and will include photo’s whenever the opportunity arises.

The problem with writing, for myself anyway, is getting over the first few months and into a steady habit. With any luck the blogging I do on this trip will be enough of a trigger to keep me going.

So there we are, a good enough reason to start. Hopefully I’ll get hooked.

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