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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.
Direct Line Insurance, Stolen Car

Demands made to Direct Line

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Just a quick update on my stolen car. I’ve spoken to the finanical ombudsman and he’s suggested I give Direct Line 8 weeks to respond to my complaint.

I just phoned Ray Harper at Direct Line to let him know I’d be sending him a letter and outlined what I wanted:

My V5 returned
The marker removed from my car
1,000GBP for the depreciation on my car
2,090GBP for the amount I have paid in loans on the car since it was stolen

Ray in his defence was disgusted at the decision from Chloe O’Driscol, and said he’d be investigating himself. He gave me the name of Chris Moat, who is the motor division manager. He’s the person to address my letter to.

I will of course post the full letter here when I write it, so stay tuned for more rants and raves.

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GetRank Blog

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For those of you wanting to make money online, and lord knows I do, you’ll be interested to know a few resources on the Internet that offer you help and advice on the subject. Obviously MrDaz.com is one of them, and is always filled with useful if somewhat opinionated advice, but another blog that has just launched is one called GetRank.

This blog only launched in May and promises to offer news and reviews on the latest technology as well as some tips on making money online.

It currently features a review of the IBM ThinkPad T43, which looks a tasty piece of kit to me. This blog also offers useful hints on buying a new computer, which I certainly need as my desktop is constantly uninstalling hardware and refuses to find my external hard drive with all of my photographs on it.

This is a new blog with little content at present, so obviously needs time to develop. The few articles that are currently on the site are informative and original, but whether the standard will continue only time will tell.

I’ll certainly keep an eye on the website though over the next few weeks, and hopefully pick up some advice on replacing my PC.

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Stockport Beer Festival

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Does going to a beer festival on a Thursday night seem like a good idea to you? No, me neither. Still we went. After much deliberation on who was going to drive we agreed the best option was to take a taxi and work out how we’d get home afterwards. Seemed to make sense.

The beer festival itself was just what you’d expect. Lots of fat, old bearded men drinking stout while talking about ‘ale’. Hardly any women in sight, and those that were there were… well, you know.

Myself and Paulie consulted our catalogues to decide which of the finest beverages we were going to sample, and by that I mean which had the highest APVs. Sadly the Skullsplitter wasn’t in today, and I thought the beer from the Cwmbran brewary was best avoided. So after sampling brews such as the Firebox and the Old Tom we were well on our way to becoming ‘happy’. You can see from the photos how the ale effected our ability to speak, see and hear.

It shouldn’t have effected our common sense though (he says stupidly) as for some reason we decided to WALK home from Stockport to Manchester. This was over 5 miles, at 2 in the morning. What the sodding hell were we thinking?

I didn’t get to bed ’til about 4:00am, and had to get up for work at 7!

Next year I’m doing what one of the fine patrons we met did this week, and taking the week off. Now that’s dedication to your ale.

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Review Me

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You may remember a blog I posted last month about the website review me. This site allows you to register your website (like MtDaz.com) and then write reviews on stuff for cash-money.

Well, it’s wicked. I got paid via PayPal yesterday, June 1st. No mucking about, no fuss, straight in.

You can’t beat that. A site that pays up instantly. I recomed you try it, particularly you Jase. You can get paid for your worthless opinions.

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My ex is a bitch

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I’ve been getting emails lately to do with a website about jilted Ex’s. Seems this is a website that allows unhappy guys with axes to grind to upload photos of their ex-girlfriends and tell the world what they think of them.

Now, for some reason this site has a link here as though I’d built it! It’s nothing to do with me; I can assure you of that. So if you’ve got some grievance with this website, I can’t help you.

Funny site though!