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List of obsolete email addresses

Patricia Ritsema van Eck — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:41:09 +0000

Due to a recent maddening increase in the amount of spam sent to me, I’ve decided to delete the following email accounts from my server:

info@heartsunlimited.net
admin@heartsunlimited.net
patricia@heartsunlimited.net
patricia@my-happy-heart.com
patricia@marketingfrontline.com
patricia@letsmakesoftware.com
patricia@thinelectrons.com
patricia@wizzkunde.nl
patricia@educare.nl

Please use my contact form to reach me. All known and trusted friends, family and business contacts will receive my new email address personally.

August vacation

Patricia Ritsema van Eck — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:47:36 +0000

From August 2nd till August 24th I’m away on vacation and I will not be able to answer any emails or phone calls.

Have a great summer!

Server Hacked

Patricia Ritsema van Eck — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:47:30 +0000

Recently the server where I host my websites got hacked. The damage to my sites varied and most of them could be restored fairly easily, but a couple of them are totally or partly dysfunctional at the moment:

ProgrammerSecretsRevealed.com - site is down completely
MappingYourMind.com - site is down completely
InstantSoftwareBuilder.org - partially damaged, but most information can be accessed
MarketingFrontline.com - partially damaged, but most information can be accessed
LoveJoyAndPeace.org - visible, but currently it’s not possible to add a wish
ReplyToPatricia - guestbook section down
We-Get-What-We-Want - guestbook section down
ThinElectrons.com - word tags section and viral friend script down
PatriciaRitsemaVanEck.name - database destroyed, no post survived…

In general any script which required public write access on some of their folders (chmod 777 for the techies) was vulnerable to this hack. But in addition it seems like there was also something wrong with the server settings that made it possible to bypass regular protection for these scripts.

It’s a bummer as I already had a list of sites that required urgent make-overs etc. so this added to my to-do list. But I’m taking the opportunity to re-launch some of these sites with new designs and better scripting so in the end it will be for the benefit of all.

I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this caused.

Back Online!

Patricia Ritsema van Eck — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:55:41 +0000

Due to some type of serial misfortune with telecom companies I haven’t been able to access the internet since December 5th. But since a few days we have a brand new internet high speed connection, are able to retrieve emails again and reply to support questions.

I deeply apologize for all inconvenience this caused with customer support. From now on you can expect the normal service again. Replies within 48 hours on weekdays, often much quicker.

Thanks for all patience and understanding!

Helpdesk Still Disfunctional

Patricia Ritsema van Eck — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:19:16 +0000

My host attempted to fix the helpdesk at www.heartsunlimitedservices.net/helpdesk but this resulted in a complete breakdown of what was left… I will look for a different helpdesk script which is more reliable. In the mean time please continue to use the support form on this site. Thanks!

Limited Internet Access

Patricia Ritsema van Eck — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:08:16 +0000

The change of address involved having to change ISP as well. There is a waiting list for getting high-speed internet connection and it looks like I won’t have access to this until mid December. I’m currently using a mobile internet connection to retrieve email - it’s a lot slower and it also has restrictions on bandwidth use so I’m only using it on weekdays in the mornings for now.

Moving House!

Patricia Ritsema van Eck — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:23:55 +0000

We are moving house in the last week of October 2007 and both October and November are going to be hectic times when we don’t have much time to check email and be online. There will probably also be a couple of days with no connection possibilities at all…

The office move takes place on October 26th to October 29th. After which we continue with the family move, so I won’t be in my office again till November 2nd. I do try to check my mail every other day.

Our new company address is:

Hearts Unlimited
Wagnerstraat 5
6961 CE Eerbeek
The Netherlands

As a consequence of this move, responding to support questions can take longer than normal. Please be patient when you submit a support request!

Thank you for understanding.

Relaunched - Marketing Frontline

Patricia Ritsema van Eck — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:11:09 +0000

Resource directory of internet marketing products, services and events. Members submit their favorite product and rate and review submissions by others.

Check here first before spending your hard-earned $$$ on the next “Must-Have” marketing product!

http://www.marketingfrontline.com/

Heart-2-Heart Newsletter Deprecated

Patricia Ritsema van Eck — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:11:55 +0000

The newsletter Heart-2-Heart, which I ran for subscribers at www.my-happy-heart.com, no longer exists. The reason for this is that the function of MyHappyHeart.com is about to change…

Up till now MyHappyHeart.com was a website which contained a lot more information then just about the book ‘My Happy Heart’ (still awaiting publication funds btw). You could also find inspirational stories, articles about the relationship between happiness and health, wealth and such, fun software applications, an ecard service and more.

All of these extras are going to be removed shortly. They will not disappear. They will become part of a new community website: Happiness Booster at www.happinessbooster.com and MyHappyHeart.com will return to it’s original purpose: a site to promote my book.

As far as I’m aware of people subscribed to Heart-2-Heart for either or both of 2 reasons:

To be notified about the publication of the book My Happy Heart;
To receive articles about happiness and happiness related products and services.

For the time being there is no notification service available for the book. The site needs some serious work to reflect all the intended changes and right now quite a few links in the navigation are broken and forms simply no longer work (this is the immediate result of moving host and takes some time to fix).

However…

There already is a new subscription form available for anyone who is interested in happiness in general. As soon as HappinessBooster.com goes live, there will be a new newsletter as well. And it’s already possible to subscribe right now!

You’ll find the subscription form at www.happinessbooster.com

If you happened to be a subscriber to Heart-2-Heart, there is no need to re-subscribe at this point. Your name and address will be transferred to the new newsletter mailinglist within the next 2 weeks and you will receive an email about this from me asking you to only confirm your subscription.

I hope this clarifies what’s happening at the happiness sections of our services right now. If not, please don’t hesitate to ask any questions that are still on your mind. You can either comment on this post or use the contact form for this.

Thanks!

Live - Trommel Workshops blog

Patricia Ritsema van Eck — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:05:10 +0000

Recently I decided to create an additonal website for my partner Coen, drummer and percussionist. Up till now Coen had his weblog integrated with his main site. Blogging is great by the way to increase customer trust because it’s the place where you can show some more of who you are as opposed to all the sales pitching you do on a sales site…

The reason to split the site in 2 was to allow Coen to post stuff on his blog that isn’t focused only on percussion workshops. He also plays in 2 bands, facilitates drumming classes, plays guitar and writes song. He now feels more comfortable blogging about these other activities as well.

You can find Coen’s new weblog at www.trommel-workshops.nl (opens in a new window).