I’m selling some Aliens and Star Wars figures on eBay at the moment. The time has come to get rid of some of these toys I’ve collected over the years, so have some carded MOSC Aliens toys for sale, and some Power of the Force Star Wars figures with a low starting bid (99p) – no reserve.
Have a look at the auctions here.
I wouldn’t normally give something like this any exposure, or even any of my time, but while I was rooting around the ReviewMe clearing house I came across the site SEChecking that was offering a Search engine positioning service for a scalable fee starting at $19.95 per month, rising to $49.95 per month.
What this company claims to do is to monitor your position in Search Engines and send you daily reports based on your rankings. For this they charge the fees dependent on how many keywords you’re keeping track of.
Now what bothers me about this is you can do exactly this for FREE with services like Digital Point or even Web CEO. $50 per month seems a lot of money for something that can effectively be had for free elsewhere.
It doesn’t help their credibility when you view their blog and find just the two half assed posts on a default WordPress blog skin stating they’ve just started. This all looks a little too much like a cowboy operation to me. A Whois sees that the site is run out of the Czech Republic too.
Even the FAQ fails to instil any confidence that the site can actually deliver what it claims as it only has two points:
How many pages are scanned in search engines ?
Now there are scanned the first 10 pages (100 results) in search engines.How often do you scan search engines for changes ?
Every day! Time of scanning is between 0:00am and 6:00am.
Seriously, I’d advise you to avoid SEChecking, there are far more trustworthy and cheaper (read free) options out there.
One thing I’ve noticed from having a high profile blog such as MrDaz.com is that when you have something to complain about, people listen. They take note.
If you don’t have a voice getting justice from companies that like to ignore your very existence can be difficult. When their actions, negligence or incompetence goes public however, and thousands of people start seeing just what has been happening, you’ll find action is taken.
Royal & SunAlliance are living testament to that. They went from ignoring me and declaring they weren’t responsible for my car, to paying for it to be picked up in Wales, driven 200 miles and repaired while they gave me a courtesy car.
They’re just one of many. What I’d like to hear though is if anyone has any stories to tell, any complaints, any grievances. If you’re having trouble with an insurance company, with the CSA, with the council… whatever, I want to hear about it.
Your post can be any length, just let me have it. Send your posts to darth_daz AT hotmail dot com (written like that to stop the spam bots).
Remember to include your name, the subject of your post and any links to websites you’re mentioning. If you have a website yourself I’ll give you a link as well. One thing though, it must be original. It can’t have been posted anywhere else on the Internet.
If it’s good enough I’ll guest post it here.
So send me your stories, you could see some action very soon.
You may remember from my blog that my pride and joy, my car, was stolen in July 2006. I fought tooth and nail to get the thing back to the point it almost consumed me, and did consume this website; it’s a veritable homage to the quest.
If however when my car was stolen I’d actually had some form of tracking installed, like I’m considering now that I have it back, there wouldn’t have been an issue. GPS tracking is now inexpensive and a real solution to people like me who are obsessed with their cars.
LandAirSea Systems are a leading GPS tracking provider used by private, commercial and even government clients. This means they have the technology and the coverage to ensure that when my car next goes for a drive by itself that I’ll know where the sucker is.
One of the key benefits with this system is that it’s compatible with Google Earth:
The Data Can be downloaded and view in Google Earth simply by plugging the Tracking Key into the USB port of a computer
What I also like is the fact that the magnet used is so small it can be placed under your car seat, and it’s water resistant. Though of course if my car ends up in the sea, knowing where it is won’t help me much.
This YouTube video should help to show how incredible this product can be.
I’m seriously considering this. If anyone so much as touches my car or even jokes about touching it after what happened I tend to attack them physically.
MTV has a new show where they’re looking for a partner for a suitably gorgeous woman, this time it’s Tila Tequila, the hottest woman on MySpace.
Trouble is, she’s bisexual and the suitors are both male and female. Which way will Tila swing?
“A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila” starts January 20th on MTV ONE
The Manchester Evening News reported on Tuesday how a woman left her baby in her car for a few hours while she got pissed up in a bar. What’s worse is that the car had the keys in the ignition with the engine running. You wouldn’t leave a dog in that condition, let alone a small child.
What’s even worse is the woman worked for the Child Support Agency. You know, the corrupt incompetent bunch of retards who excel at being useless.
The woman’s name was Gemma Train and she was 23. Even worse was she was let off with a suspended sentence. She should have been locked up for at least a year and had her child taken from her. What a scum bag.
This led me to search on the MEN website for other CSA related stories, and I came across a great many. You can read them all here.
The most harrowing was this one where a father killed himself after the CSA left him with just £10 to live on. He was forced to pay whatever the CSA calculated he owed for his 3 children leaving him with a tenner for the week. Not enough to pay the bus fair to work, let alone the food, bills and mortgage. Leigh Eglon is dead now, so the CSA can’t get any more money from him. Notice though from their response that they don’t actually care that they’ve driven someone to suicide:
A spokesman said: “We cannot comment on individual cases. The Child Support Agency has a responsibility to ensure both parents support their children financially.”
I wonder if I should go to the Manchester Evening News? You know, I think I will.
For those who like their football laced with comedy and a topped with a liberal sprinkling of irony, Special K is back at Newcastle. This means more emotional, firey outbursts like this one without the restrictions of things like tactics to get in the way.
Expect Newcastle to be involved in more 4-3 losses and to entertain us all while still coming out empty handed at the end of the season. Can’t wait.
Recently I had a batch of custom stickers made up for the Chav Car website YourCarIsShit.com. I got these stickers at a knockdown price (read free) because I knew a nice chap in the print industry. If however you don’t know someone who can help you out like this and you require some good quality Labels, you can always try one of the many online print companies such as Frontier Label, Inc.
As with most companies offering a printing service online they have a quoting system where you can enter your detailed requirements in order to get a price.
One of the difficult things about dealing with printers is knowing all of the specific details with regards to preparing your files for printing. How to package them properly, embedded fonts, bleed areas etc. Luckily this site has a help section to advise you on how to get your artwork ready for them to work on.
Frontier Label also offers instant online tracking of your order, meaning you’ll always know the status of your order… so long as you have an Internet connection. I always do of course!
Of course the proof with any printers isn’t in the price, it’s in the quality of the printing. There’s no point saving money on a cheaper printer or using cheaper stock if the quality lets your company’s image down. Frontier Label have a section of the site where you can order a free sample pack to see just what sort of quality you’ll get from them.
