Sez Me for opinions and views of a middle aged old man. Sarcasm a speciality, as well as stating the bleeding obvious! Sez me,anyway.
19 July 2007
I just posted a comment on a blog that mentioned the advisability of keeping affiliate links relevant to the theme of the blog,if there was one.
I said:
The bit about being relevant to your sites is also true, but remember we all have complex needs, so for example, if all computer interested visitors also all tend to like eating Mars Bars (to give them energy to keep programming all night for example), then you might get a surprising number of sales from having a sweet-shop affiliate link perhaps.
The point I am making is, if an item is interesting to you but off-topic, it might be true for others like you, they may be happy to be told that the opportunity/item exists in passing while they are pursuing their main interest.
For example, I once linked to a site about big bras for big busted women, on the equivalent to the now www.websitesediting.net, a site originally about proofreading and editing websites (a free service I once supplied, still do for the odd site I really like).
I found to my surprise that the visitors to that site must have tended to be female, and interested in big bras, as most of my sales came from that site!
Who would have thought that at first glance?
On further reflection it is plausible as indexing and proofreading working from home tends to be done by women more due to home commitments forcing them to look for work they can do while at home, and since women are more linguistic than men on average (yak the hind leg off a donkey and run rings round us men when nagging, etc.....) it is natural for them to search for proofreading and editing type jobs, hence coming across my old site.
So do not get too paranoid about having apparently unrelated posts now and again,you might miss out on a golden opportunity.
May 9 2008
A word of advice, in this time of financial crisis, try to work for a bank, and get a low cost mortgage for as long as you work for them.
I have one at the tracker rate, not tracker rate plus 2% or more, like most have. That is because I work for HBOS (Halifax Bank of Scotland), and
it is part of the perks.
If you ever join up try mentioning me as the reason you joined, then when employed, send an internal email and I will pay you half what I get,
after the 6 months they make us wait (they do that in case you skip off after a few days), assuming I do get a fee for helping to recruit you.
If interested, send me an INTERNAL email to Philip DObson, when joined and you have your own internal email account, with Subject "I was referred by you"
and I will shareout the money if HR pay me.
No point trying to scam, if you are not on the internal email list, and HR do not confirm that you joined with me as reference, then no deal, no money.
I say that in case any herberts at work (sorry I mean to say, esteemed colleagues), try to pull a fast-one!
April 18 2008
Just been browsing around, saw this "old friend" is still around. Stormpay
(http://www.stormpay.com/stormpay/user/about_us.php?view=a see the address is in Clarksville).
Looked up Stormpay scam on Google, saw this bit of information (http://www.web2check.com/about.php?view=about see the address is in Clarksville).
Read this comment from Allen (http://www.weboma.com/is-stormpaycom-a-scam-yes-it-is/)
I advise you to do the same!!!!
I suppose I should say for fairness (more than the fairness Stormpay have shown others to date) that I personally (tautology) had all money I was owed
paid to me by cheque (check) whenever I asked for it in the past, but then I had the sense not to pay any of the 12daily style scams for anything using any
payment processor or credit card, and I never gave Stormpay any bank details or credit card details.
When they introduced $1 a month deduction for whatever specious reason they came up with at the time, in a sneaky way, I cancelled my account, having only
about $1 left, earned from reading their stupid time wasting in-house "paid to read adverts". I only got about $1 a month from the few ads they let me see,
and then they intended taking the $1 if I still had it in the account and had not spent it. The first time they did that I resigned. Essentially you were
reading their ads for free, while they charged the advertisers (fellow Stormplay customers) a fee for each ad clicked which was supposed to go to us.
I suggest you do not start an account with them if you have not already got an account. If you do start an account, do not supply bank or credit card
details. If you do, on your head be it, you have been warned!
March 16 2008
Just been on one of the better affiliate sites, noticed this merchant (as they are called on affiliate sites), a worthy cause.
Children In Crisis
The spiel says
"There are 77 million children worldwide who are not able to go to school. Often they are living in severe poverty and can not afford to go to school
and many are the innocent victims of civil wars and conflicts. Schools are often destroyed during wars and with few if any trained teachers,
there’s no chance for these children to learn the skills they need to find a way out of poverty.
Children in Crisis is working towards ending this injustice by providing an education to children in 9 countries around the world.
Our aim is that all children will have the chance to go to school, wherever in the world they are and however poor they might be.
Children will always be the most vulnerable members of society; in times of an economic crisis, a political upheaval or a war,
they will be the ones who suffer the most. A chance to go to school can provide a safe and secure environment in which to learn and rebuild their lives."
If I was not struggling myself with a wife, 5 kids and a mortgage like a millstone round my neck, drowning me in a sea of debt, I would think about
sponsoring a child myself.
The only thing that always worries me is, if I sponsor one of the (soon to be in the future) "mad mullahs" that seem to be springing up everywhere
in the name of Islam, will I find out one day that the child whose life I extended beyond their "natural" short lifespan, comes back and bombs the
"be-jasus" out of me and mine, while crying out "kill the infidel". Rather like the ungrateful sods that were raised in the North of England, and
killed 50+ of their fellow citizens a few years ago, ironically including fellow muslims apparently.
A moral dilema, that I have not solved yet. Perhaps if I get enough from people signing up and doing what I cannot yet, from the link here
Children In Crisis,
I will be able to use some of the money to sponsor a child once I have settled in my mind, the probabilities that my help will be thrown back,
metaphorically speaking, in my/our face(s).
For the purposes of the Charity acts (various) I state that I am not carrying out charity work, or purporting to be a registered charitable organisation, etc.
February 29 2008
Just found out about
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/about.
I was waiting for a petition of mine to be accepted (update 16/3/8, rejected as not being serious! You don't say!!)
The petition was called
Give Phil Dobson some of the billions wasted on non-working NHS computer systems
and says:
My kids could have told you the projects were too complicated to work, it is absolutely disgusting that the people that spent all that time and money
on the waste-of-time scheme, are still in their jobs. Their waste of scarce NHS resources, now consigns people going blind or dying of cancer to an
early grave, where they could otherwise have been saved by paying for the medicine that "NICE" now say they cannot have.
February 8 2008.
America hit by massive tornados yesterday, 20+ killed. So much for Bush not signing up enthusiastically to the Kyoto agreement
to stop this rogue weather due to global warming! If CO2 emmission is to blame, the gas guzzling Yanks are getting their just rewards some
may say, especially those prone to outbursts of "kill the infidel"......
That is not the reason for this missive today, just before I go to twork for the glorious HBOS empire.
It is the fact that a year old (11 months) boy was found alive after being thrown 300 meters in the air. His mother was found nearby dead.
Miracle everyone says, yes it was certainly lucky. For once I have not heard the Yanks say "Praise the Lord for this miracle".
Perhaps they are at last realising that if it was God truly performing a miracle, you could take Him to task for killing the mother, and
making this innocent kid an orphan.
Where is the miracle in that?
SEZ ME, anyway,
January 30 2008 in the evening
Talking of Guts'n'Gore, just had to take 2.5 days off work to help my wife after our daughter haemoraged (yes, she is up the duff).
That is not what annoys me, but the fact that having got to Bristol's BMH (Bristol Maternity Hospital) at about midnight, by taxi, in some pain
and distress, my daughter was told to walk (I kid you not) down the steep hill to the (fortunately) nearby BRI because "we (the BMH) do not have
the right facilities to deal with you".
I am not the only one to think this stinks, the BRI staff were angry, and said someone in my daughter's position should not have been made to walk
down to the BRI, and this was NOT the first times this sort of thing had happened.
The Government is always saying how many billions more they are pumping into the NHS (presumably to pay Al-Qaeda doctor's wages while they wait to blow
us all up, or set fire to us in while we queue in airports, or more subtly, to help spread MRSA and Clostridium Dificile throughout the NHS to
"teach us Infidels" a lesson for not believing and following the Islamic faith).
Any road up.
When the government tells us next time how rosy the NHS picture is,we need to all reply:
SEZ YOU
SEZ ME, anyway!
January 22 2008.
Doing this while my wife and stepdaughter watch Holby City.
Why is it women seem to like all the "guts&gore"stuff?
If it is not someone giving birth,it is someone else having bits chopped off them, medical program after medical program, ad infinitum.
Still, I suppose they have to put up with men and their ruddy football, cricket, rugby, etc.
Fortunately, I hate them myself, so the missus does not have to put up with it.
December 24 2007, sent the kids to bed after a bath to relax them and calm them down. Don't you just know it is Christmas when you have over-exited kids
around?
Now got time to update this site, while watching the TV from the corner of my eye. Who said men cannot multi-task??? Well my missus for one, then the
female supervisors and esteemed female colleagues for another, still, they cannot fill dishwashers!!!
Sez me, anyway.
How many of you men out there find that to be more true than not, I wonder. It seems a few at my place of work agree, from casual observation.
Time to watch War of the Worlds,with that Scientologist believing Twat, be back later.
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