My Latest Website
I wasn’t really planning on launching any new sites for the rest of the year, however this was one that was in the planning stages for awhile. I’ve been putting in the work slowly over the last few weeks, as the concept of the site is really fun, and different from my usual websites.
As of today it is now live and launched, so it’s time to open it up to the world.
The site is called Dans Casino Blog and I’ll link you all to it in a minute. The premise of it is very simple – on Sundays, I sign up at a new online casino, and deposit $100. Monday through Friday I play at that casino and blog about it, while trying to clear the signup bonus. I either profit or go bust – either way, i write about it over those 5 days. Then at the end of the week I also do a review of the casino.
So yeah – hopefully a fun site to read. Go read now and subscribe to the daily blog newsletter: Dans Casino Blog. ANd if you have Twitter, Stumble Upon, Digg etc accounts I’d love a link!
Detective Hamrick makes a return
I hate ebay. I mean, I really fucking hate it. They’ve made improvements in their time, but there’s still so many problems, so many scummy sellers out there. Ones who pray on the innocent, the people that see an item at “$5.50” and assume shipping is going to be regular shipping – not $26.50 to ship an item two cities over.
So it’s nice when I get a chance to get some revenge on these fuckers.
Janise ordered an item back in August from a seller – some kids webkinz toy or something. Dude lives in Oklahoma. He never sent the item, then gave bullshit excuse after bullshit excuse – his mother was in the hospital, his mother died etc etc. What was worse was he finally sent the item, but it got returned – and rather than you know – send it again – he’s decided to ignore e-mails for the last couple of months now. He basically managed to bullshit Janise long enough so that he was able to get by the Paypal 45 day dispute time, and the ebay one. Dude now thinks he’s got off scot-free.
Fuck that.
The item is only worth $30, but man it’s a matter of principle. And really – it’s not too hard. This person, who signed up behind what is basically an anonymous e-mail address and kept their details all private, is private no longer. I have their name, their relatives names, all their phone numbers, their addresses – I even know where they work.
Time to go to work!
Sears.com Is Awesome
I’ve been looking for a new 32″ LCD TV for the bedroom, and saw a deal on Sears website for just $400 CDN. Sweet deal, so I went ahead and ordered it. I didn’t get an order confirmation number, but was told I would get an e-mail with all my order information. Well of course I didn’t, and I go into my account and there’s no way to view order history or anything like that.
So I went ahead and e-mailed them. No response. Sent a few e-mails now, still nothing. No charges on my credit card yet, so I have absolutely no fucking idea if I have a 32″ TV on its way or not. I could probably just call them – but that really defeats the whole purpose of ordering online.
It really bugs me when you see online businesses run so crappy. Best Buy and Future Shop I believe are still the same way – when you go to buy something you can’t just log into your old account – you have to log in, then provide an old order number, or you have to open up a whole new fucking account.
This is why Amazon are still the fucking top online retailer – because they know what they are doing. Online ordering isn’t an afterthought for them – it’s their whole business. That’s the problem with a lot of these retailers – the online stuff still isn’t priority, when in reality it is 2009 and it really fucking should be. It really shouldn’t be that hard to respond to an e-mail, provide an account history etc yet so many of them half-ass it that it just breaks any trust you have with the store.
These places really need to get their acts together.
Yikes
Didn’t realize it had been that long since I last updated. Sorry about that. Let me try and cover a bunch of topics in one post:
Sports: My tips sites are doing great – my NBA Tips site is at 14-4 for the season so far, or 77.8%. NFL is at 34-25 or 57.6%. I’ve also been making arrangements to go to a lot of sports games lately. I really wish I lived in a town with some actual big sports teams as I would so get season tickets for everything. Shit, I’d even sit through the Toronto Argos every other week. I went to Leafs vs Senators on Tuesday in Ottawa which was fun, and this Saturday I’m off to Toronto to see the Leafs vs Capitals, then the next day it’s Raptors vs Magic. Got a ton more basketball & hockey games lined up, and also going to see Patriots vs Bills on Dec 20th I believe which I am pretty pumped about.
Books: Haven’t been reading much lately. Read Filth by Irvine Welsh for about the 9th time – seriously his best book bar none, and I highly recommend it. I read that again as he brought out a kind of sequel to it in Crime. Just started that – it’s starting a bit slow but hopefully it will pick up.
TV: Haven’t watched much lately. Started going through Family Guy as I bought the box set of that like a year ago and it’s been sitting gathering dust. I’ve probably only watched about 20 episodes of it in total, so it is nice to go through it one by one. The early episodes are quality – not so sure about the later ones, but I did catch one on TV last night(where Stewie was in the future and saw the older Stewie) and it was pretty lame.
Video Games: Haven’t played much Xbox lately, which sucks as I’ve got an achievement challenge where I need to get more gamerscore points than another person. He’s currently at 62,865 and I am at 60,076. I did beat Harry Potter the other day – I think it’s Order of the Phoenix but it might have been the other one. Either way it was shit. I tried out Chronicles of Riddick today but sad to say it was too hard for me – that was a bit depressing. Granted I was playing it on hard, and with the achievement challenge I have it in my head I have to rush through games, and that really isn’t one I should rush through, but MAN did I ever suck at it.
Hopefully I find time to play games this week. I have a whole stack of games that I’ve either bought/rented and not played, or played a little. Games that I have to go through include Godfather II, Lego Indy 2, Blitz 2, Bionic Commando, COD 3, COD WaW, COD MW 2, Cars Mater National, Monsters vs Aliens, Bolt, All Pro Football 2K8, The Incredible Hulk, Bakugan, Ben 10, Fantastic 4, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Virtua Tennis 3, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Mini Ninjas, PGR 4 and probably a few others I can’t remember off the top of my head. So yeah, lot of fucking games to play – just have to sit down and do them.
Work: Had a lot to do since I got back from Edmonton, and did it all. I’ve got one new site that is almost done(I just need a couple of articles to add to it, a caricature and a header) and I’ll post it here – it’s a pretty neat site and fun to work on. Other than that, I’m basically in vacation mode until the end of the year – I basically work just whenever I feel like it now – some days I do fuck all, other days I will be like “Yeah I want to do that today” then do it. Fun way to work, and I may just continue like this for the next little while.
Alright, I am off to do a few things then play Modern Warfare 2!
Update from Twitter
On the train to ottawa – off to watch leafs vs sens tonight. Let’s go over 6!