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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.
Humour

Glad to leave Wythenshawe

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We’ve found a flat, and are hoping to move in the next few weeks to Didsbury, which is great because Wythenshawe is quite a rough place, to say the least.

A few weeks ago I went to the local alcohol retailer (might have been something like Bargain Booze) where I was looking for a bottle of red wine. I saw behind the axe proof glass some Wolf Blass Cabernet Sauvignon and enquired in my most cultered voice:

“Excuse me, I can see you have Wolf Blass Cabernet Sauvignon but do you happen have the Merlot?”

The rather large woman behind the counter said:

“Only what’s on the shelf luv”

Fine I thought, I’ll have that. Then some Manc came in behind me and once I’d been served said in the most Liam Gallacher of voices:

“Y’alrite, giss us 4 can o’ fuckin’ stella”

Hmmm, clearly I’m in the wrong place.

Podcasts, Stolen Car

First podcast online now!

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My first podcast is now online, and you can subscribe to all of my podcasts through Feedburner.

This first Podcast was a phonecall I made to Royal Sun Alliance on Thursday as I tried to find out why they haven’t replied to me, or fixed my car after over 11 months!

They promissed to phone me back the next day between 12:00 and 13:00 when I was on lunch, guess what? That’s right, they didn’t.

I did get a message later in the afternoon apolgising for not phoning me back, and asked me to call them again.

I don’t think so, letter to follow.

Anyway, download the podcast now.

Mr Daz calls Royal Sun Alliance [ 7:25 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (265)

Humour, Internet

Comedy Domain Names

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Sometimes when you register a domain name the fact that the letters are all together can lead some unintentional, and humourous words. For example, domains like The Pen Is Mightier can become The Penis Mightier: thepenismightier.com.

Gas Heating.co.uk was something the owners really should have thought about, as GashEating.co.uk is the way it looks.

More domains like this can be found here.

Google, Internet

Google clamps down on buying links

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Google’s foremost blog merchant Matt Cutts announced a while back that Google would be clamping down on sites that buy and sell links in order to boost their Page Rank. The SEO community was divided on the boast, with critics claiming Google could never tell if a link was paid for.

Well, Google has today added a section to their webmaster tools where you can report sites that buy and sell links.

That could prove interesting, with webmasters all stabbing one another in the back.

Rants

Royal Mail stole my post

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I returned home after 2 weeks a while back to find a card through my door from the Royal Mail. I’d missed a recorded delivery packet. Probably a DVD I thought as I get sent DVDs regularly because of WhatDVD.Net.

I popped down to the collection depot on the Saturday morning, the only day I’m able to do it, to collect my mystery packet. Guess what? It wasn’t there.

Seems because it had been over a week they’d returned it to the sender, only a further check on the records showed that the sender’s address wasn’t on the packet. So where is my parcel I asked? The Royal Fail employee gleefully told me that the parcel was sent to Belfast where undeliverable items are opened in an effort to find where to send them.

But my address was on it, how could it be undeliverable??? If it’s important enough to be recorded, why not actually deliver it?
He said that’s their procedure.

What a fuck up. I have no idea what the item was, or who sent it – I only know it’s gone. I imagine it was a DVD, and has no doubt now been stolen by a Royal Mail retard.

Humour, Internet

Podcasts coming soon!

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It was suggested by some work colleagues that I should record my phone conversations and offer them as downloads here. You see, they have to listen to me during lunch arguing with Direct Line, Royal Sun Alliance, the Inland Revenue, the CSA and loads of other morons on a daily basis, and my phone calls provide much amusement for them.

Well, having a HP Smartphone I thought I might as well do it, so I’ve just downloaded the software from here and will be recording my phonecalls over the coming weeks, then offering them here as podcasts. You lucky, lucky people!