Dave

November 20th, 2008 by dave

Since going self employed I have always paid my T Mobile phone bill late. This has been happening for quite some time now but there has not always been much I could do about it.

My main priorities have lied with more important bills such as rent, food, petrol and general living costs. Anyway, I have always paid my bill, sometimes a day late, sometimes a few days late but either way it gets paid.

Each month when the bill is due, instead of getting a reminder letter or a text message, I get upto twenty phone calls PER DAY from T Mobile. Yesterday from the hours of 8.30am to around 8pm my phone rang so many times, it was like every 20 minutes to half an hour. They never leave a message but just keep calling and calling, and calling.

Do they not think that I am at work, cannot answer, they just ring constantly. It gets like harrassment sometimes its stupid, why do they not just leave me a voicemail. I am very aware that my bill is due and it will get paid when I get paid.

Does anyone else have this problem with T Mobile or any other network infact?

The numbers they call me on are always different too:

0845 4122703 - 0845 4122726 - 0845 4122721 - 0845 4122748

0845 4122736 - 0845 4122705 - 0845 4122718 - 0845 4122735

Highly annoying and surely is some form of harassment?

November 18th, 2008 by dave

On Monday 17th November Olly & I attended the LEO Dragons Den Event which was held at the Icon Business Offices near Junction 27 off the M1.

Schools from Ashfield, Mansfield & Bolsover were invited to present their ideas for a new charity.

It was an all day event and we met some really enthusiastic kids, or should I say young adults.

It was amazing to see so many young people working together on new ideas, some of which had real potential. Their enthusiasm and professionalism was absolutely fantastic.

We spent all day working along side them, giving them advice and questioning their reasons and methods, then towards the end they all had to present to the Dragons in order to get put through to the next stage.

Its opened our eyes so much and has given us some new ideas for the business. We are hoping to get more involved with helping local schools and their pupils next year. We would like to encourage more young people into setting up their own online businesses.

November 14th, 2008 by dave

After years of buying domain names from 123 reg and spending alot of money with them we have decided to leave them and move to another company.

Following three seperate problems and being messed about by them we made the decision to leave and not take anymore of their shit !!

I was shocked to be treated in the way that we were, certainly after the amount of money we have spent with them, they have no customer loyalty.

We have found hundreds of other stories about 123 reg and have discovered so many other upset customers left without resolutions.

We have “found” a good site for blogging about 123 Reg now, and its JUST for complaints.

http://www.123-reg-blog.co.uk/

November 7th, 2008 by dave

My blog has had a page rank of 3 for ages now, but more recently its gone down to 1.

I have no idea why, all the incoming links that I have are still there and nothing has changed.

I update the site and always use the blogging software correctly.

One thing that really pisses me off about Google is they do what they want when they want and the dont inform you about it. Why is this? Its not fair at all !!!

This is not the only problem I have had lately, I have been trying to sort out Google AdWords and have had some issues with the ads displaying.

I have emailed them TWICE now, once of which was over a week ago and have still not had a reply, its disgusting.

I have a business to run google and I cannot wait this long for answers, its absolutely ridiculous.

Anyone else had problems with Google? Please do share !!!!

November 7th, 2008 by dave

Taken from another website: TOTALLY STUPID IF I MUST SAY SO !!!

A Labour MP has urged the BBC to dismiss Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson over a joke he made on the motoring show.

More than 500 people have complained to the BBC about Clarkson’s quip about lorry drivers killing prostitutes.

And while media watchdog Ofcom has said the remark was not a breach of the broadcasting code, Ipswich MP Chris Mole claimed it was a “dismissible offence”.

Clarkson, 48, was taking part in a lorry-driving task on Sunday night’s edition of the show when he joked that lorry drivers kill sex workers.

“Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That’s a lot of effort in a day,” he said.

The comments may have been a reference to Steve Wright, a lorry driver jailed in February for the murder of five prostitutes.

The so-called Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, who killed 13 women - many of them prostitutes - was also a truck driver.

A BBC statement issued on Monday said: “The vast majority of Top Gear viewers have clear expectations of Jeremy Clarkson’s long-established and frequently provocative on-screen persona.

“This particular reference was used to comically exaggerate and make ridiculous an unfair urban myth about the world of lorry driving, and was not intended to cause offence.”

But Mr Mole was offended by the possible reference to the murders committed by Steve Wright in Suffolk and has written a “strongly-worded” letter to the BBC’s director general Mark Thompson.

“The murders in my constituency in 2006 were horrific and the community has spent a lot of time pulling together to respond constructively to such dreadful events,” he wrote.

“For Mr Clarkson to make light of murder in any circumstance must be a dismissible offence.

“To do so with complete disregard for the families of the murdered women should make this a matter on which I would expect you to take immediate action.”

I think this is absolutely disgusting, yes he was prob a bit out of order but at the end of the day, Britain is famous for its comedy and JC is not the only one to take things a bit far sometimes.

If people do not like certain people on TV then they should not bother tuning in.

So tell me this? Are you tellin me that the 500 plus people that complained were enjoying the programme until he said that ?

They were obviously fans of the Topgear show, so why let one thing get their back up, we all know what Jeremy is like so why be total arseholes about it. Do these MP’s sit on their arses all day looking for things to moan about, do they have lives or infact any sense of humour at all? Obviously NOT !!!

Topgear is THE best programme the BBC has to offer, and thats FACT. Without him the programme may as well be taken off air.

As soon as I read about this I had to blog about it, maybe its because I am only 24 and do not see the bigger picture, who knows. This Country stinks at times like this, something so small being blown up. I’m rather angry about it, these MP’s should get lives !!!!