Monthly Archives: November 2007

ReviewMe

Make free logos with logo design software

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A striking logo is the key to the branding of any company, or indeed any blog; such as MrDaz.com! The caricature in our logo was created by Aled Williams, a rather spaced out Welsh designer. A useful person to know if you need a logo or two, if however you don’t know Aled you might want to find a cheaper solution to creating your logos.

This is where The Logo Creator comes in. It’s a piece of logo design software that allows you to easily, and with little or no design ability, create impressive logos for your company. The software comes with an extensive logo design library that you can manipulate yourself, and edit to produce your own logos effortlessly.

There are 7 different packages for you to choose from, focusing on sectors such as Corporate, Travel or Sports. The website offers you the chance to view the quality of the logos before you part with any cash as well, so you know exactly what you’ll be paying for. The best bit is of course the price. The software and the bundled logo designs come in at just $29.99 each, that’s just £15 Sterling.

Alternatively you could buy the Mega Pack which includes all of the different packages and 380 professionally designed logos for you to edit for $189.95.

You needn’t worry about compatibility either as the software is available for both PC and Mac.

Royal & SunAlliance, Stolen Car

BMW say my engine is fine, I guess standards have slipped?

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I’ve just had a call from RSA again about my car. Apparently BMW can’t find anything wrong with the engine and they’ve estimated to have the work finished on my locks and the bodywork next Friday. That pushes the whole thing dangerously close to December and the dreaded 17 month mark.

Obviously there is something wrong with the engine as the front left side of the car sounds like it’s grinding metal when you turn right, so if the car is delivered back to me without the work being completed I’ll just drive it straight back. I’ve a feeling this could continue.

I’ll call BMW myself later today and let you know how I get on.

Humour

Revenue and Customs lose 25 Million people’s bank details

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In an amazing show of incompetence I thought I’d never see reached by any Government agency, the HM Revenue and Customs have gone and made the CSA and the other morons out there look positively professional.

They’ve managed to lose the details, including names, addresses AND bank details for ALL 25 Million people claiming child benefit in the UK. That’s 25 Million people who’s bank account details are in the hands of shit knows who right now, and I could even be one of them!

How did this major fuck up happen? Simple, some bright twat posted a CD with these details on to another department, and it got, how shall we say, lost. Was it recorded? No, of course not. What was the response when they realised it had gone missing? Why, they went and posted another one!

For fuck’s sake. What a cock sucker.

From the BBC.

In an emergency statement to MPs, Mr Darling apologised for what he described as an “extremely serious failure on the part of HMRC to protect sensitive personal data entrusted to it in breach of its own guidelines”.

MPs gasped as Mr Darling told them: “The missing information contains details of all Child Benefit recipients: records for 25 million individuals and 7.25 million families. “

Unbelievable eh?

It’s hardly surprising though is it? One excuse given today was that too much pressure was put on the already strained HMRC as they’d had job cuts recently. They’ve been asked to perform the impossible, was the bullshit I heard on Radio 5.

Asked to perform the impossible???

“I say, could you try awfully hard NOT to lose the bank account details of 25 Million people?”

…That’s Impossible I say! I’m under too much pressure!!!

Fucking wankers.

Don’t worry mind because the CD, they say, was password protected. I can imagine the level of complexity involved in the choice of password from someone stupid enough to post the bank details of 25 Million people. Let me have 3 guesses now at that password:

  1. password
  2. childbenefit
  3. 123456

That last one is the kind of password an idiot would have on his luggage. If you’ve ‘found’ this CD and are having trouble ‘cracking’ it, try one of those 3 passwords. I’m sure you’ll have success.

Fucking idiots.

Affiliate Marketing, Google, Movies

Adsense Video Units coming to the UK

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A while back Google launched Video Units for its Adsense network allowing publishers to place Video units from YouTube on their website and earn commission based on related adverts. Perfect for websites like What DVD you’d think?

No actually, in their infinite wisdom Google made this functionality available to US based publishers only. After all, only people from America use the Internet, despite What DVD being mainly focused at the US, because my registered address is in the UK, I was frozen out.

Now they’ve decided to roll out the video units to the UK, Ireland and Canada. From Google’s Adsense Blog.

With this new launch, publishers in the UK, Ireland and Canada will be able to show videos from our YouTube content partners and choose those videos by category, individual YouTube partner, or have video automatically targeted to their site. Based on publisher feedback, we’ve also just added a feature which lets you choose individual videos to be displayed in your video units.

About time too. Now I can start loading up some websites with Video content. One or two sites spring to mind 😉

Internet

Nationwide email scam

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Every now and then I get spam emails through from PayPal and eBay. I imagine we all do, and some of us, the select few ‘special’ ones actually click on them and enter their credit card details.

Aww bless.

Today I received one from Nationwide. It might have convinced me it was real had it not been for a few small give-away signs.

  1. I don’t actually bank with Nationwide
  2. They spelled Nationwide wrong in the email field (Nationwlde)
  3. The email was sent to ‘undisclosed recipients’ – banks do not do this

I pity people who fall for this kind of crap but if anyone has I guess it just emphasises the old proverb; a fool and his money are soon parted.

Nationwide

Royal & SunAlliance, Stolen Car

My car is now being worked on at BMW Bluebell

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I just heard from Deborah in the Bristol office of Royal & SunAlliance. It seems the engineer for RSA isn’t going to be looking at my car today, he’s going to do it tomorrow. After all, I’ve waited 16 months why rush. That seems to be their policy. He has however authorised BMW to repair the ariel on the car and to change the lockset, which they should be doing now.

I never actually heard from RSA as to why they’ve reversed their decision on changing the lockset to my car as all along for the past 6 months they’ve insisted they won’t be paying to change the locks, then suddenly they changed their mind.

No doubt the coverage they’ve received on MrDaz.com played some part in their ‘about face’ ;).

Rants

Government cracks down on benefit cheats

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About bloody time. It seems the Government are finally planning to crack down on the sick, lame and lazy of Great Britain – which spells bad news for Cwmbran, and for Yoda. They’re introducing new, tougher, tests for people claiming they can’t work through so called illnesses such as depression and a bad back.

From the BBC.

Fewer sick and disabled people will qualify for disability benefits for being unable to work, after a new test is introduced from next year.

Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain says the changes will end what he calls “sick-note Britain”.

The new disability test could cut the number of annual claimants by 20,000.

This also spells bad news for my ex-wife’s parents, both of whom are work dodging scroungers. Her father claims a ‘bad back’ while her mother has ‘depression’. It looks like with these new tests they may be forced to look for work. I’d pay to see that.

In all seriousness this does really infuriate me as I have double scoliosis of the spine meaning my spine is twisted in two places creating a figure ‘S’ shape. I have a steel rod attached to it to straighten it out, meaning I should be a few inches taller than I am now! If I walk more than a few miles or stand up straight for more than a few minutes my back starts to give in and my legs go dead due to the lack of circulation. Yet I work. I could quite easily skive off like my ex-wife’s father but for some reason the lure of being a tax dodging, work-shy fraudster just doesn’t appeal.

Humour, Rants

Merry Chavmess from Wythenshawe

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It’s that time of year again where the chavs of the UK decorate their humble abodes with the bright, the glary and the downright tacky. Yes, it’s November 18th, it must be slap the Chrimbo decorations on your house time.

November!

Here’s the first one I’ve seen, right opposite our house (outside of our secure compound of course).

Christmas

Doesn’t that look festive?