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Cat with two faces

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This has to be the unluckiest cat in the world. He has two faces, four eyes, two mouths and possibly two brains.

Now, I’m not posting this video because I think it’s interesting, or funny, or even sick. No, I’m posting this video because the website About Blank has been told not to. You see, this video is from the Telegraph’s website here. About Blank, just like MrDaz.com, have used the embed code offered by the Telegraph to post this video, so we’re not actually hosting it – the Telegraph are hosting it. If they didn’t want us to post the video they would remove the embed code so this video would stop working on MrDaz.com, About Blank and every other website that has posted the clip.

However, someone can’t grasp that concept, as you can see from the comments on About Blank here.

I love this sort of stuff. Someone thinks they can bully websites into removing content when they don’t actually grasp the concept that the website in question isn’t actually hosting it. That’s funnier than a cat with two faces.

Seriously though, put the cat to sleep.

Affiliate Marketing, Google, Movies

Adsense Video Units coming to the UK

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A while back Google launched Video Units for its Adsense network allowing publishers to place Video units from YouTube on their website and earn commission based on related adverts. Perfect for websites like What DVD you’d think?

No actually, in their infinite wisdom Google made this functionality available to US based publishers only. After all, only people from America use the Internet, despite What DVD being mainly focused at the US, because my registered address is in the UK, I was frozen out.

Now they’ve decided to roll out the video units to the UK, Ireland and Canada. From Google’s Adsense Blog.

With this new launch, publishers in the UK, Ireland and Canada will be able to show videos from our YouTube content partners and choose those videos by category, individual YouTube partner, or have video automatically targeted to their site. Based on publisher feedback, we’ve also just added a feature which lets you choose individual videos to be displayed in your video units.

About time too. Now I can start loading up some websites with Video content. One or two sites spring to mind 😉

Humour, Movies, Rants

Mr Daz trys to break into his own house

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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.

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How I stood up Edgar Wright, director of Hot Fuzz

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Regrets, I’ve had a few… certainly not too few to mention. With my financial settlement with my ex-wife nearing completion today I looked back on some of the biggest mistakes I’d ever made in my life and surprisingly getting married wasn’t the biggest.

Oh yeah, I’ve made a bigger one than that before.

When I was 17 I made a series of what can best be described as spoofs such as Juliana Clary and Batman with the intention of getting these short films onto the TV series Beadle’s Hotshots. We never quite made it on (though did get Batman screened on Adam Buxton’s Takeover TV) but the researcher on the show would phone me regularly asking me how the shooting was going and what ideas I had for new videos.

He was a nice chap, and even edited all of the videos for the show himself. Even though we didn’t make it onto the show they gave us two tickets for the recording of two episodes, so myself and Steven Gane went down from Newport to London, to Waterloo, for the filming. As we walked in the same researcher called me over as he’d recognised me from Batman. He apologised for not using any of our videos and said we should meet in the LWT bar afterwards to discuss ideas for the next season.

Sadly, Gany and I had to travel back to Newport on the last train, which was 11:00pm so we couldn’t meet him.

If only I could go back there now. That guy’s name was Edgar Wright and he went on to direct both series of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

Oh dear god. What did we pass up? As young film makers we were undeterred at the time, and even when the producer of the show, Liz Costellas, telephoned me and asked me to get in touch with her prior to the new series starting we were still a little casual. We never got back to her.

So we stood up the director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, and we didn’t bother getting back to the producer of Beadle’s Hotshots.

That’s a mistake, my biggest to date.

Humour, Movies, Rants

Mr Daz phones the police: The Video

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You’ve waited a long time for this, and the wait is finally over. Presenting the video of when I telephoned the police from outside the house of my ex wife’s father in an effort to get them off their arse and actually come out to retrieve my property, as they said they would do a week before.

This was originally posted some time back as a podcast, but now you can actually watch the full motion video of the event.

This video will be followed shortly by the main event of me attempting to break into my house with a crowbar and then having to deal with the police, who did eventually turn up.

That’s for later though, for now, watch the video. If you like it, post a comment or share it with friends!

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