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Share your Thoughts with Thoughts.com

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Would you like to be the next Mr Daz? Well, when I say that I don’t mean get married, divorced, lose all of your transformers and have your car stole. No, I mean start an online Blog Site.

If you’ve wanted to write on a website with your very own blog, but you’re not very computer literate (or just illiterate if some of my commentators are anything to go by) and you don’t know your HTML from your DIY you need not worry. There is a website that will give you very own blog, for free.

I know, there are actually loads of websites that do this, one very large one owned by Google, but for those of you that like to avoid the big G you could try Thoughts.com.

Thoughts.com allows you to air your views on a variety of subject matters and to become part of their community of bloggers. Your own personal blog is offered with unlimited bandwidth so you don’t need to worry about becoming too popular and receiving loads of traffic… a common problem for me 😉

You can also upload photos and videos to share on your blog as well. It does all sound very similar to MySpace and Facebook yet doesn’t have the same clean interface. You do get your own personal page though where visitors can leave you feedback, view your photos and read your blogs, like this one for Janie Jeffers.

It’s worth giving it a look if nothing else, every Facebook started somewhere.

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RSA Sack 10 employees over Bart Sex Scandal

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As if spending all of their time on MrDaz.com wasn’t enough, it seems Royal & SunAlliance employees have a penchant for Simpsons related pornography.

This story was dug out on the Register from 2001 where RSA suspended 77 employees for forwarding emails containing Bart Simpson porn, and then 10 of those employees were sacked from their jobs.

I can’t say I’m surprised at this. Again people from RSA, less time browsing Simpsons porn and more time fixing my car!

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RSA kick me off their Facebook group

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Much as I predicted last week when I joined RSA’s Head Office Facebook group, they’ve tightened it up a bit. To be honest I thought they’d shut it down altogether, but instead they’ve booted me out and made it invite only. Previously they let anyone in, which is why I joined and posted on their wall.

They now have no wall. Aww, doesn’t seem much point having it anymore.

Anyhow, here’s the screenshot of the now Mr Daz FREE Facebook group.

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My Z3 arrives in Manchester

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You couldn’t make this up. My Z3 was picked up this morning by RSA and due to be taken to Lloyds Autobody in Manchester. When I left work at 5:45 the car hadn’t arrived so RSA were going to check tomorrow and let me know then.

Well… on the way out to the cinema this evening I decided to pop over to Lloyds Autobody, just to see if my car was parked outside. Would you believe it, but the flat bed truck was there with my car on the back, looking to drop it somewhere, and there was no one in!

I said you couldn’t make it up. So rather than have the car dropped somewhere else I said they could leave it in our secured parking area. Lo and behold, here is my car, after 16 months, finally making its way back to me.

I’ll contact Lloyds Autobody myself now to see when I can drop it off to them and they can get the quote to RSA. The quote they should really have asked for when they first recovered the car in August 2006.

Isn’t she a beauty?

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Shtop! This is no way to steal some furniture

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Those crazy Dutch police have arrested a teenager for stealing virtual furniture from a virtual hotel. The online youth social networking site Habbo is a hotel whereby members can pay real money for furniture… whatever turns them on I guess.

According to Reuters a 17 year old hacked into other user’s accounts and virtually stole the furniture from their hotel rooms and moved it into his own.

An Amsterdam police spokeswoman confirmed a report that the teenager was accused of stealing 4,000 euros (2,844 pounds) worth of virtual furniture by hacking into the accounts of other users.

This begs the question, if the furniture did not exist, was there ever a crime? How can they punish the kid? Lock his virtual character up in a virtual jail cell?

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RSA pick my car up for repairs

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I’ve just heard from Royal & SunAlliance that they have now picked up my car from South Wales and are taking it to Lloyds Autobody in Manchester to be fixed.

I think this is a call for celebration as it only took 16 months for them to do this.

We’ll wait to hear from the body shop before cracking the champaign corks, but hopefully this means I’ll get my BMW Z3 back next week, unless of course RSA have a panic attack when they see what the Ferrari, Porsche and Bentley approved body shop actually quote for repairing my car!

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Rent a Parking Space in the UK

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Being a flash git I, just like my flatmate, have 2 cars. I have a Toyota Celica T-Sport and the much blogged about BMW Z3. My flatmate has a Landrover Freelander and a work’s car, a Skoda Octavia. Sadly our flat has 2 allocated parking spaces, causing much annoyance for the neighbours, particularly the nerdy, bearded, headset wearing chap who asked why I kept parking on the road when we had spaces inside our complex.

Cheeky sod.

Obviously parking spaces are at a premium, but being in Manchester there is a solution in the shape of http://www.parklet.co.uk. This could save a lot of heart ache from annoyed neighbours, clamped cars or, as we get in Didsbury every week; smashed windows from chavs stealing Sat Navs and car stereos.

What Parklet does is allow you to look for car spaces and garages in any of the major cities, such as Manchester and London, for rent or purchase. A quick look around my local area finds loads of options for me to rent a parking space from around £50 per month, which is considerably cheaper than a car park wanted to charge me in Cardiff Bay last year.

Of course, another angle to this site is, if unlike me, you don’t have your own private car pool but do have a space going spare you could earn some extra cash by renting it out.

So much anger, so little time