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Parcel tracking is good…

2008-01-14

…but it could be implemented a little better sometimes.

Mi. 21:23: E-mail with dispatch confirmation of a shop (emphasis mine):

Immediately after the order is placed, you have the possibility to track the shipment’s status online.

http://tracking.[…]

Important notice!

It may be that your package number is known to the system only up to two days after dispatch handover and thus only then its course can be tracked.

Strictly speaking, you might even say that this is not really contradictory. It certainly isn’t practical, though.

The rest is rather banal:

I checked on Thu at about 19:00: no status. Could the package arrive today, then? Or can’t it? No. And also Thu ca. 18:00: no status. Only Thu ca. 22:00: status from Mi. 20:35: “Shipment handled in dispatch center” (everything in my translation, by the way).

Fri ca. 10:00: status from Fri 4:45: “The shipment has gone on tour.” (Only this last status was shown.)

Fri ca. 13:00: status from Fri 10:15: “The shipment has gone on tour.” By the way, where can you buy tickets for the tour? Who’s the supporting act? :P

Fri ca. 14:30: package arrived.

Others are a little more extensive… but alright, as long as the products arrive safe and reasonably fast, it’s fine with me. And when I find topics to write about that are more interesting than this, it’s even finer with me.
:bigsmile:

Blog-Parade Hobbyfotografen

2008-01-11

This is for a German blog carnival about hobby photographers, not much point in translating it…

:photo: Jens Hellmeier interessiert sich in seiner Blog-Parade für die Hobbyfotografen…

  1. Besitzt du eine normale Digitalkamera, eine digitale oder eine analoge Spiegelreflexkamera? Vielleicht auch alle 3? Wenn ja welche?
    Ich hab eine hosentaschentaugliche Ixus 40 und plane die Anschaffung einer Einsteiger-DSLR oder einer großen “Einteiligen” – die schnelle neue Casio (60 Bilder pro Sekunde in voller Auflösung) klingt äußerst interessant, höchstens der Weitwinkelbereich könnte besser sein.
  2. Wie viel Megapixel hat/haben deine Kamera/s?
    Die Ixus hat 4 MP, die Casio hätte 6. (Was ja auch reicht.)
  3. Wie viele Speicherkarten hast du? Welche Größe haben sie? und von welchem Hersteller sind sie?
    Zwei à 512 MB von SanDisk.
  4. Besitzt du mehrere Objektive? Wenn ja, was für welche? Evtl. auch einen externen Blitz?
    Bisher nicht – wozu auch? :) Wenn ich mich für eine DSLR entscheiden sollte, denke ich an ein “normales” und ein Tele-, später evtl. ein Makro-Objektiv.
  5. Wie oft gehst du deinem Hobby Fotografieren im Monat nach? (Angabe in Stunden bitte!)
    Die Antwort gab’s so oder ähnlich schon öfter: Das schwankt, und zwar so stark, dass ich keine Stunden-Angabe machen kann, sorry.
  6. Was fasziniert dich am Fotografieren?
    Naja, der Spaß an der Freud’, dass man schöne Motive oder besondere Momente festhalten kann, das übliche eben. :mrgreen:
  7. Was fotografierst du am liebsten?
    Die Landschaft oder Teile davon. Also Natur, keine Portraits oder so.
  8. Bist du bei einer Foto-Community angemeldet? Wenn ja, bei welcher?
    Bisher nur herunterladenderweise.
  9. Verdienst du Geld mit deinen Fotos? (Freiwillig)
    Nein.

Und ich möchte auch auf meine noch bis einschließlich Montag laufende Blog-Parade “Musik des Jahres 2007” hinweisen. :)

(erstmals via mlogger)

I’m Wesley Denisof-Gere

2008-01-03

The celebrity lookalike search at MyHeritage.com is making its rounds again – e.g. here at Nadine‘s –, and since I didn’t publish anything about that before, I’ll do that now, and with a quite current photo:

celebrity lookalike

So I – on this photo – am supposed to look at 74% like Wesley Snipes, at 71% Alexis Denisof (I’d like to get to know his Aly, too^^), at 70% Richard Gere, and with lower percentages like a few others (including only one woman). I’m actually quite satisfied with that, it could have been much worse. :mrgreen:

On an older photo (with larger glasses), by the way, it was mostly Elton John and Yitzhak Rabin.

Interesting that Mr Denisof’s character’s first name on Angel was Wesley… certainly the Powers That Be must be behind that. :P

Also interesting to whom Pope Gregory XIII, who is (currently…) to be seen on my avatar/title image, is said to be looking alike: Angelina Jolie, Liz Taylor, Gary Cooper, Liza Minelli and others:

celebrity lookalike Gregory XIII

…2 girls 1 cup, er, 2 glasses of champagne…

2007-12-31

Prost

PS. If you came here looking for the ominous, infamous 2girls1cup video: At JUST4FUN, Alex shows the best reaction videos – and says (in German) why you’d better ignore the original video… (And Wikipedia’s got an entry about it.)

This just appeared too tempting; I simply had to include it in my new year’s countdown… :mrgreen:

:huhu: And while you’re here anyway, why don’t you also check out my best posts, or have a look at the latest ones?

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