Monthly Archives: November 2007

Royal & SunAlliance, Stolen Car

RSA said they couldn’t be bothered to pick my car up

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I just spoke to Deborah again at Royal & SunAlliance and asked why my car hadn’t been picked up last night. Well, she did what all RSA employees do and apologised to me again.

*sigh*

She said she left a message for one of her colleagues to call the recovery firm last evening at 5:30 to arrange the pick up of my car, but they didn’t bother. She had no excuse, just that they hadn’t done it.

I suppose that’s refreshing in itself, if not still annoying. I told her I wasn’t surprised as I had been waiting 16 months (coming up for 17 months now) for my car to be fixed so I didn’t really expect them to turn up. She had now arranged for my car to be picked up Saturday between 10:00am and 11:00am.

Place your bets now.

Affiliate Marketing, Google

Google Adsense makes it harder to click

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As John Chow correctly reported earlier this week, Google have were planning to make a fundamental change to the way their Adsense ads are clicked. Well now they have.

Adsense Click Areas

As you can see from the diagram Google have reduced the clickable area from the whole ad, to just the Title and the URL. This, they say, will help prevent accidental clicks.

Of course what it will do is reduce my revenue. I’m already considering ditching Adsense on certain websites, despite the increased revenue I enjoyed recently.

You can read Google’s explanation for this on their official blog.

Royal & SunAlliance, Stolen Car

RSA Fail again

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Would you Adam and Eve it? Deborah from Royal & SunAlliance assured me today that their recovery team would show up this evening to pick up my car and take it to BMW Stockport to be quoted on, and subsequently repaired. I was told that they’d be at my house some time after 6:00pm.

Guess what? That’s right, despite me waiting in all night they never showed up. Further more I never received a call explaining why, or even letting me know they wouldn’t show up.

I guess I can’t be surprised at this as after all RSA have let me down continuously for 16 months. I suppose I just naively expected them to actually do what they claimed they would this time.

Maybe they’ll have answers tomorrow as to why no one bothered to show up, despite me waiting for them. Maybe they’ll have answers as to why no one called me, despite me waiting for them. Maybe they’ll have answers as to why my car hasn’t been fixed when it’s now November 15th 2007 and it was originally stolen in July 2006.

I doubt it, but we’ll keep on persevering eh?

Internet, ReviewMe

Share your Thoughts with Thoughts.com

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Would you like to be the next Mr Daz? Well, when I say that I don’t mean get married, divorced, lose all of your transformers and have your car stole. No, I mean start an online Blog Site.

If you’ve wanted to write on a website with your very own blog, but you’re not very computer literate (or just illiterate if some of my commentators are anything to go by) and you don’t know your HTML from your DIY you need not worry. There is a website that will give you very own blog, for free.

I know, there are actually loads of websites that do this, one very large one owned by Google, but for those of you that like to avoid the big G you could try Thoughts.com.

Thoughts.com allows you to air your views on a variety of subject matters and to become part of their community of bloggers. Your own personal blog is offered with unlimited bandwidth so you don’t need to worry about becoming too popular and receiving loads of traffic… a common problem for me 😉

You can also upload photos and videos to share on your blog as well. It does all sound very similar to MySpace and Facebook yet doesn’t have the same clean interface. You do get your own personal page though where visitors can leave you feedback, view your photos and read your blogs, like this one for Janie Jeffers.

It’s worth giving it a look if nothing else, every Facebook started somewhere.

Royal & SunAlliance

RSA Sack 10 employees over Bart Sex Scandal

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As if spending all of their time on MrDaz.com wasn’t enough, it seems Royal & SunAlliance employees have a penchant for Simpsons related pornography.

This story was dug out on the Register from 2001 where RSA suspended 77 employees for forwarding emails containing Bart Simpson porn, and then 10 of those employees were sacked from their jobs.

I can’t say I’m surprised at this. Again people from RSA, less time browsing Simpsons porn and more time fixing my car!

Royal & SunAlliance

RSA kick me off their Facebook group

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Much as I predicted last week when I joined RSA’s Head Office Facebook group, they’ve tightened it up a bit. To be honest I thought they’d shut it down altogether, but instead they’ve booted me out and made it invite only. Previously they let anyone in, which is why I joined and posted on their wall.

They now have no wall. Aww, doesn’t seem much point having it anymore.

Anyhow, here’s the screenshot of the now Mr Daz FREE Facebook group.

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Royal & SunAlliance, Stolen Car

My Z3 arrives in Manchester

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You couldn’t make this up. My Z3 was picked up this morning by RSA and due to be taken to Lloyds Autobody in Manchester. When I left work at 5:45 the car hadn’t arrived so RSA were going to check tomorrow and let me know then.

Well… on the way out to the cinema this evening I decided to pop over to Lloyds Autobody, just to see if my car was parked outside. Would you believe it, but the flat bed truck was there with my car on the back, looking to drop it somewhere, and there was no one in!

I said you couldn’t make it up. So rather than have the car dropped somewhere else I said they could leave it in our secured parking area. Lo and behold, here is my car, after 16 months, finally making its way back to me.

I’ll contact Lloyds Autobody myself now to see when I can drop it off to them and they can get the quote to RSA. The quote they should really have asked for when they first recovered the car in August 2006.

Isn’t she a beauty?

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Humour, Internet

Shtop! This is no way to steal some furniture

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Those crazy Dutch police have arrested a teenager for stealing virtual furniture from a virtual hotel. The online youth social networking site Habbo is a hotel whereby members can pay real money for furniture… whatever turns them on I guess.

According to Reuters a 17 year old hacked into other user’s accounts and virtually stole the furniture from their hotel rooms and moved it into his own.

An Amsterdam police spokeswoman confirmed a report that the teenager was accused of stealing 4,000 euros (2,844 pounds) worth of virtual furniture by hacking into the accounts of other users.

This begs the question, if the furniture did not exist, was there ever a crime? How can they punish the kid? Lock his virtual character up in a virtual jail cell?