#deed poll

Today, somebody who’s running a scammy personal information collection campaign hidden beneath the veneer of a buggy free deed poll service that competes with my better, ethical free deed poll service… emailed me to ask if I’d advertise theirs for them. Wow.

There’s a certain kind of person who, upon hearing my unusual name, immediately asks whether that’s what’s on my birth certificate (with an underlying implication that it’s not my ‘real’ name, whatever that means, if it isn’t). Well: as of this week, thanks to a quirk in Scottish law, the name I’ve used every day for almost two decades DOES appear my birth certificate. Fuck the haters.

At the weekend I realaunched FreeDeedPoll.org.uk, fixing it after it recently broke and adding a ton of new features. And by the time I was going that far, I figured, I might as well make one of those video tutorials that are all the rage, too…

Wrote up my deed poll, got witnesses to sign it and everything - it's only when I've double checked it that I realise I've put my address on it wrong.

Thanks for sharing.

I’ve been doing a bit of tidying-up of the mess that is my personal Internet hosting. I’ve made a lot of progress, but the rest is probably going to have to wait until later in the year.