Would you look at this. My quest to rank in Google for the name of the MD for Direct Line Insurance, Chris Moat is almost complete. MrDaz.com now ranks in Google.com and Google.co.uk at #2 for ‘Chris Moat’, prompting loads of angry Direct Line Insurance customers to find my site and leave their comments.
We should be #1 very soon. Ah, the simple pleasures of SEO.
I look forward to Direct Line Insurance themselves getting in touch with their thoughts.
I’ve just had an email from British Telecom, who I gave 48 hours some time last week to resolve the fact that they’ve debited me £68 when it should be £33. It took them a while, and they’re still stalling for time. The thing is, despite having my account details, and obviously my name… look what they address me as:
Dear Mr Daz
Thank you for your e-mail dated 5.10.2007 regarding your complaint.
I am sorry for the delay in replying to you and for any inconvenience this may have caused.
In response to your e-mail I would like to inform you that I have escalated your issue to the department concerned and they will contact you at the earliest.
In the meantime, I would like to thank you for your patience and co operation and to assure you of my best intentions at all times. However if you have any further queries regarding this matter, please feel free to contact me directly via e-mail.
Thank you for contacting BT.
Yours sincerely,
Sanjay Sohal
eContact Customer Service
Heh, I think maybe the folks at BT have had a look at MrDaz.com. I wouldn’t be surprised, we do rank in Google for searches like ‘BT are bastards’.
So the Royal Fail are going on strike because their pay rise isn’t as much as they’d have liked. The lazy arsed money grabbing bastards. If we’re going to have to wait a week for our post, find letters going missing and see postal workers stood outside the sorting office puffing away on cigarettes does that mean a strike? Or does it more likely reflect the normal working style of the Royal Mail.
How can we tell when they’re on strike? Seriously. They must be taking the piss.
I hope they all get sacked, useless wankers.
I saw the Bloggers Choice awards on another blog I was reading today and thought it would be fun to add MrDaz.com to the list. However, when I went there I found that I had already been nominated… for most obnoxious blogger.
Cheeky bastards. Anyway, might as well run with it. If you think I’m obnoxious please vote for me here.
I wanted to write a review of this phone for some time, not because I’ve been paid to, because I have one and it’s quite simply amazing. I bought the hp iPAQ hw6915 Smartphone in December 2006 because I needed a phone that was great for the Internet. My phone at the time, and one I still have lying around somewhere, was a Sony Ericsson W810i. That’s a nice little phone, great for music and has a wonderful camera – but it’s useless for the Internet.
The hw6915 by contrast has a rather poor 1.3 mega pixel camera, so isn’t a great camera at all. Everything else it does however is first class.
The phone has wi-fi, allowing me to connect to my BT home hub that I’m paying over the odds for (still not had BT sort that one out) and retrieve my emails and browse my websites from the comfort of my own bed or toilet. I’ve even installed the PDA plugin to this blog just for me!
The phone also has a media player and came with some free download credits so I could grab this nifty bit of software that allows me to convert video files for playback on the phone. Now I can watch Cop on the Edge or the latest *ahem* downloads wherever I am.
For people who get lost regularly the phone comes with the latest version of TomTom and one free city of our choice. I didn’t bother getting the full UK or European maps though as I preferred to get a new standalone TomTom unit, which when paired with the Smartphone becomes a hands free kit. Ah, technology.
The only drawbacks with the phone are that the camera isn’t great and the battery power drops significantly when the wi-fi is enabled.
Now, as regular readers will no doubt be aware I’ve had long standing problems with various customer service and insurance companies, such as Direct Line Insurance and Royal & Sun Alliance. In my battles I’d made many despairing phone calls to these guys and then had to write down what had been said and relay it to my disbelieving work colleagues. What I really could do with was a way of recording my phone calls. Surely my new pocket pc could do that?
Well, no, actually it couldn’t… at least not without some software. After scouring the Internet for all of 5 minutes I came across Vito Technology and their Audio Notes software. This looks good I thought to myself. It claims to be able to auto record your phone calls and even names them by date, and the person who called – saving them as MP3 files.
Surely it’s not that easy? It can’t do that?
It bloody well does. This software cost me $19.99, at today’s exchange rate that’s around £10. Nothing really is it? It downloaded in seconds and installed in minutes. I couldn’t wait to test it out, and did so with my friends from Royal & Sun Alliance. I think you’ll agree it worked a treat.
If you’d like to be able to record your phone calls automatically with your hp iPAQ hw6915 Smartphone, then Vito Technology’s Audio Notes is a seriously slick, and cheap way of doing it.
You can also purchase the hp iPAQ hw6915 Smartphone here from Dixons at a decidedly cheaper price than I paid in December.
dotcom mogule John Chow is locked in a heated battle with rival Shoemoney over who can increase their RSS subscribers by the largest amount this month. Being the effective marketeer that Chow is he’s offering prizes for anyone who helps him, and being a sucker for prizes I’d like to help.
So, without any bias or ulterior motive: I heartily recommend John Chow’s blog as a superior offering to that of Shoemoney and suggest that you subscribe to his RSS feed right away.
How was that John?
Ever on the ball and looking for a way to get some good PR the big G are today celebrating the reunification of Germany.
You can see the German flag flying proud over at Google.de.
This is a great example of creating a buzz with your Internet marketing, and one which caught my eye because naturally being a podcaster (or rantcaster a I like to call it) I was a little intrigued at the authorities keeping tabs on those who speak their mind. As it turns out this was not the FBI but a genius piece of Internet marketing that has now made the front page of Digg and caused quite a ripple.
Well done mate.
