Category: Weblog

I hear on the TV the other morning, that a guy was discussing how he had taken Lloydstsb to small claims court – over the huge account charges he was receiving for going a tiny bit overdrawn. Anyway, he actually won!

This got me thinking, i am being conned by my bank in pretty much the same way. I had £90 of built up account charges, and they took them out of my bank all at once. Which in turn took me overdrawn again. I could see a pattern here. And if i remember correctly its happend before, where i havent quite had the correct amount of money in my bank and they have taken the charges out taking me overdrawn again. Its like they wait untill the time is right, so that they can constantly take money off me!

Anyway, i wasnt being ripped off like that, so i rang the bank. And apparently a representative from some department will be calling me to discuss it. It give me hope tho that someone has already complained about this, and won.

I have actually had some charges removed once before. I was getting myself into a bit of a mess (like usual) and i went to sit down with my bank representative. She sorted me out, and cleared a few of the built up charges – which at the time was a godsend!

I guess banks have got to make money, but taking up to £100 a month off me in charges is taking the piss isnt it really.

See dave (djb31st) – Your not the only one who hates banks!

Hi there!

This is the 3rd personal blog that i have ever had. I started off using bblog, which was good to start off with, but soon got quite annoying. In the end it was being attacked by spambot’s and i just couldnt be arsed with it.

Then there was my long serving mamblog, where i used the CMS Mambo, and a plugin called “Mamblog” which was fine, except i had to write the entries in Dreamweaver, spell check them (probably th eone thing ill miss!) copy it across, then submit it, open it, edit it so that it appears on the front page. And that was that. I had gotten the whole process down to a few minutes (apart from the actual writing of the blog) – BUT it was still not good enough.

I then decided to install a travel blog. So that i could plan, track and report on my round the world trip. So i opened fantastico (a auto-installer that is built into cpanel) and i noticed there was a selection of blogs that i could choose from. After about 5 minutes of looking i noticed that wordpress would accept incoming emails and upload them as blog entires. I couldnt believe my luck. Its basically exactly what i wanted, as then i can blog from ANYWHERE that has email functionality. Even my phone!

I played around with it for a bit, and decided that it was ideal for not only my travl blog, but also my main blog.

Olstar_Weblog_v3.0 was born. 🙂

Oh, and i shook the vending machine and got a free bounty. Muhahah 😀

Nearly every day, as the day draws to a close – I find myself with nothing to do. Actually i lie, i find myself with nothing to do quite a lot. I have put it down to my inability to make mmx3 work, of a higher importance to me, than other things – such as maxxd and the millions of other websites i am affiliated with.

Sometimes I have good days, where ill crack on with my work, plod along, and hardly have any internet input all day. The other days (like today) where ill toss it off and fuck about most of the day.

I guess the most important thing is that i do my work. And i do! Well! But im just not being tested enough. And im not really in an enviroment where i can fuck about as much as i would of liked.

I guess my ideal job, would be a webmaster. Someone would had to be online most of the day – and had to respond to requests and problems encountered by members/visitors of the site i was working for. I guess i kinda do that now, but inbetween my real work.

Its hard too when something go’s wrong, and im trying to do my mmx3 work, but cant concentrate becasue i have PM’s and test’s comin in left right and center.

One day ill get into a lot of trouble thru the amount of fucking about i do.

Its 11:48, and i have only just started my MMX3 work. I got here this morning, and the internet was down. The network was down, and everybody was panicing. We had a similar problem occur before, but it just started randomly working again.

Anyway, after about 40 phone calls, we are back up and running – and a 4mb interenet connection upgrade has been ordered 8) rock on!!

Gonna buy me a laptop charger for my new laptop today – i canny wait! I can finally turn my old laptop off and store it away for a rainy day or in case of emergencies. I couldnt sell it, as its worth nothing!

And, how do you like my cartoon-like snazzy theme? Excuse the cow related words everywhere, the original image at the top had a cow on it not a monkey 🙂