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Darren Jamieson, aka MrDaz, is the Technical Director and co-founder of Engage Web and has been working online in a career spanning two decades. His first website was built in 1998 and is still live today.
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Chris Benoit Dead

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What the hell is going on with WWE? They said they had a big crackdown on drugs in the business, fining and banning wrestlers who were caught using them, yet clearly it’s still a problem. So what the hell happened with Benoit? One of the most gifted wrestlers of all time, a natural and hailed by many as the best technical wrestler ever, now dead.

It looks like he may have killed himself, after murdering his family. Jesus Christ.

This means that the two champions from Wrestlemania XX, Eddie Guererro and Chris Benoit, are both dead.

What’s worse, on the day Benoit is found dead what does Radio 1 lead with as the main news story? Fucking Paris Hilton is released from prison after 3 weeks!

Something is definitely wrong with the world.

Humour

OJ Simpson I solute you

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Some people really dislike OJ Simpson and believe he’s guilty of murdering his wife, and has proved that if you have enough money you can get away with anything.

I take the other angle to whole thing and say well done OJ, not only have you murdered your wife, you’ve bloody profited from it. I haven’t even killed mine and I’m suffering.

OJ even wrote a book about ‘if’ he’d murdered the bitch, this is how he’d have done it. They saw sense and pulled the book at the last minute, but you can still download it if you know where to look.

I just might have a read, to see how it can be done, in theory of course.

Humour, Rants

Jo Whiley Must Die

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Let me quantify that statement. Jo Whiley must die slowly, and in huge amounts of pain. Why you may ask, why not you should be asking. This thick as fuck chav bitch pollutes the airways every sodding day with her moronic droning voice, spouting endless shit about what TV she watched the night before, what she’s added to MySpace and her new favourite; Face Book.

Why does she exist? Do I care what she thinks about the ending to Lost? Do I care about her take on Doctor Who? No, I sodding well don’t. What’s worse, the gormless cow can’t keep her chav trap shut when she knows the ending of something, she even complained that the BBC had forced her to keep schtum about the end of Doctor Who when she’d seen it in advance.

Sure Whiley, tell everyone, go on… we won’t mind. We want you to tell us the ending before anyone’s seen it.

Dumb bitch.

Podcasts, Royal & SunAlliance, Stolen Car

RSA Fraud investigator phones me

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Well well well. Seems my blog has reached RSA, about sodding time to be honest. If they saw the stats for this blog they’d have phoned earlier, cos I’m actually getting traffic by people searching Google for things like ‘Direct Line’ and ‘Royal Sun Alliance’.

Hey, my job is SEO after all!

Seems now that Brian McNamara wants to see the car, and says they’ll fix the thing. You can hear this podcast below. Apologies for the sound interference, I was in the car at the time.

Notice how I asked him several times to confirm he’d fix the car? Not sure if they know I record all my conversations, but when he reads this he’ll know for certain… I do.

Of course Sarah Bryant’s earlier claim that RSA would do nothing can be heard now as well below. We don’t like her, she’s not very helpful.

Naturally I don’t actually believe what Brian says, as I’ve been conned by Insurance companies before. I’ll treat him very cautiously, they’re all out to serve themselves at the end of the day, but we’ll see where this all leads.

Bryan McNamara phones MrDaz [ 12:46 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1036)
Sarah Bryant phones MrDaz [ 5:29 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1047)
Humour, Internet

Viral email crashes company’s email

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Viral emails are a great method of marketing, but before you try them out for yourself be sure to carefully consider what you’re doing. Persimmon Homes didn’t, and an email sent out by them last week caused their entire network to go down for over a week.

If you received this email below, it was a hoax, ignore it. Do not forward it or reply to it. The person who originated this must feel pretty damn stupid right now.

From: **********
Sent: 04 June 2007 11:32
To: ************
Subject: FW: Marks & Spencer vouchers

Marks & Spencers, in conjunction with Persimmon Homes, are giving away free vouchers.

Marks & Spencers are trying word-of-mouth advertising to introduce its products and the reward you receive for advertising for them is free non-refundable vouchers to be used in any M&S store.

To receive your free vouchers by e-mail all you have to do is to send this email out to 8 people (for 100GBP of free vouchers) or 20 people (for 500GBP of free vouchers).

Within 2 weeks you will receive an e-mail with your vouchers attached.
They will contact you through your e-mail address.

Please mark a copy to: ******@persimmonhomes.com

Podcasts, Royal & SunAlliance, Stolen Car

Podcast: RSA wash hands of car

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This one’s a beauty. I telephoned Neil Godfrey from Royal & Sun Alliance once again this week and I couldn’t believe what he said.

11 months after my car was stolen, and after I’d tried to get RSA to fix the damn thing by calling them direct in November, January, May and June they tell me I need to go back to the garage that the car was stolen from.

Back to square one.

Listen to this sucker and marvel at the ‘can’t be arsed attitude from Royal & Sun Alliance.

Mr Daz phones RSA Again [ 7:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (360)