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Years ago when I was very young, not as young as I am now, but still pretty young - I often thought that when store clerk swiped the card at that “magic credit card reader” money somehow manage to get transferred into cash register through the wires. Only recently, after acquiring merchant account for my own purposes had I found that purchase by credit card is indeed a credit given by merchant, since he gets the funds with significant delay. In fact the delay could range from 3 days to a full month.

Updating bank info at credit card processing company can be a real pain in all the places you can think of. In my case - it is.

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Replaced dull image with a cute flash movie on http://integrative-health.us - Dr. Isyanov and Behavioral Services Center web site. Since the web site is targeted to people audience, not search engines, we decided to loose certain features, considered “A MUST” today, for a better people experience. After all, most of people would be referred to web site personally or via business cards, site is merely a point of reference, not point of sale.

Oh, and with all the hysteria around “Da Vinci Code” I couldn’t help but use “Vitruvian Man” on the site. Been to the movie, there’s absolutely nothing to be hysterical about. Even “National Treasure” is a better movie. Protesters should stop whining about the movie and do something useful, like community service - would make more sense.

Cheers.

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