Google co-founder Larry Page is set to marry in December, according to Reuters. After what happened to me I sure hope he has a pre-nup. Considering he’s worth an estimated $18 Billion he’s an awful lot to lose. I only had some Transformers toys and a few Star Wars figures and my ex tried to nail me to the wall.
Good luck buddy, you’re gonna need it!
I’ve just heard from Royal & SunAlliance that they have now picked up my car from South Wales and are taking it to Lloyds Autobody in Manchester to be fixed.
I think this is a call for celebration as it only took 16 months for them to do this.
We’ll wait to hear from the body shop before cracking the champaign corks, but hopefully this means I’ll get my BMW Z3 back next week, unless of course RSA have a panic attack when they see what the Ferrari, Porsche and Bentley approved body shop actually quote for repairing my car!
Being a flash git I, just like my flatmate, have 2 cars. I have a Toyota Celica T-Sport and the much blogged about BMW Z3. My flatmate has a Landrover Freelander and a work’s car, a Skoda Octavia. Sadly our flat has 2 allocated parking spaces, causing much annoyance for the neighbours, particularly the nerdy, bearded, headset wearing chap who asked why I kept parking on the road when we had spaces inside our complex.
Cheeky sod.
Obviously parking spaces are at a premium, but being in Manchester there is a solution in the shape of http://www.parklet.co.uk. This could save a lot of heart ache from annoyed neighbours, clamped cars or, as we get in Didsbury every week; smashed windows from chavs stealing Sat Navs and car stereos.
What Parklet does is allow you to look for car spaces and garages in any of the major cities, such as Manchester and London, for rent or purchase. A quick look around my local area finds loads of options for me to rent a parking space from around £50 per month, which is considerably cheaper than a car park wanted to charge me in Cardiff Bay last year.
Of course, another angle to this site is, if unlike me, you don’t have your own private car pool but do have a space going spare you could earn some extra cash by renting it out.
If you’ve ever wanted to strip Natalie Portman down to her panties and then choose an outfit for her not to wear, then Stardoll.com is for you. I’ve been playing around with this site for some time and have to say, for perverts it’s first class.
Imagine my joy when I found Angelina Jolie and the Olsen Twins. Here’s a couple of outfits I made earlier:
Admittedly the outfits are minimalistic, but you could do more if you wanted. Stardoll.com isn’t the only site that allows you to do this, there are thousands of them in varying styles. This Natalie Portman was from another such site.
I’m not sure of the morality of all of this, but I’m loving it.
For irony fans out there you can even dress up the Hoff himself, but you might want to dress him with more than I’ve done here.
The network Affiliate Window recently launched a great system called ‘Shop Window’ where you can take code written by them that imports all of the available merchant feeds direct to your website. It means you can create your own Affiliate site in minutes, and with a little website design flair and CSS knowledge you can customise the website to your heart’s content.
With this in mind we’ve just launched the website www.JustbuyToys.co.uk through Just Search. It contains product feeds from many of the major merchants in the toy industry such as Toys R Us, The Entertainer and Woolworths and features category pages for toys like Barbie, Bratz and my personal obsession; Transformers.
Have a look at the site, browse around and buy some toys! Seriously, you don’t need to buy any toys if you don’t want to, but the website is a shining example of how Affiliate Window’s ‘Shop Window’ can be used and customised.
Naturally we’ll be making a few of these now in different sectors and promoting them using natural SEO. I’m so excited I could rip a tissue.
If you want to create your own affiliate site like Just buy Toys then you can sign up to Affiliate Window and get designing.
Looking at this PhotoShop wizardry video I wonder if this was how my ex-wife was pitched to me. I’m sure Eddie must have done something like this before he introduced me.
Anyhow, this is very clever, if not in breach of trade descriptions.
Originally from the Chow.
Still waiting for Zoe Banks to get back to me about my car, I decided to email her today. She was supposed to be contacting the Hillcroft garage to ask the question I’d raised last November when my car was partially repaired: had the car been recovered with the keys?
If you’ll remember, RSA have insisted they won’t replace the lockset on the car because they think it was.
Hey Zoe, the clock is ticking, unlike my car. I would dearly like to know if RSA are going to be bothered fixing it this year, or should I make plans for the 18 month anniversary in January 2008?
I could send you a cake?
I wonder too if should pursue a claim against RSA for the cost of a replacement car for the last year and a half as it’s down to your incompetence that my car is off the road?
Amazing she replied, though didn’t comment on whether she’d spoken to the garage or not.
Dear Mr Jamieson,
With regards to your recent Emails I write to confirm the offer in final settlement of your claim.
I propose to organise recovery of your car to a repairing garage of your choice, I will then arrange for them to estimate the car and agree details with one of Royal and Sun Alliance’s Engineers. This will allow for the work can be undertaken without further delay. I understand the repairs outstanding to the vehicle are to the aerial, the rear bumper and the replacement of the key and locks.
Please confirm that you are happy for me to proceed on this basis, and provide details of your chosen repairer to including name, address and contact number for the Bodyshop Manager.
Yours Sincerely
Zoe Banks
Customer Service Leader
So they’re finally going to pick the car up and get it fixed AND change the lockset? I wonder why it took 16 months for this to happen? I won’t get excited just yet as I’ve had false promises before from RSA and Direct Line. I’ll wait until the car is dropped off at my house in Manchester, fixed, before I draw a line under this one.
This is the one you’ve been waiting for. This is the video of me breaking into my house, or at least trying to. When I found out that my ex-wife’s father had changed the locks on MY HOUSE I drove down to get the new keys from him. Naturally the twat hid inside his house and refused to come out, so after phoning the police I made my way to my house to try and break in.
I wasn’t very good at it, not cut out for burglary. I guess if I were from Cwmbran it would have come as second nature, but I’m not, I’m from Rhiwderin.
Anyway, the police eventually did turn up and showed they don’t actually know the law. They said they’d arrest me for breach of the peace, but as the official description on ‘Breach of the Peace‘ shows, I wasn’t at all. Had they arrested me for that it would have been wrongful arrest, but I do believe they would have done it anyway.
So, sit back and watch the video Starring me, PC Merrick, my neighbours and filmed by Tony Dicker.
