Thanks to the wonderful service of Lycos webhosting I just found out that they will end their hosting service in about… 30 minutes (-_-). I had no idea it would end this soon. One of my domains, which also contains the pixel clocks and calendars will go down with the sinking ship.

On the bright side they will offer a refund of my remaining hosting money, but I wonder if I’ll see it within the next month or even this lifetime. Just to be sure I’ve saved these bills so I can rub their noses in it if I have to

For now please have a little patience, I will try to relocate the clocks and calendars a.s.a.p!

Bola character <3

This is a new category called Weekly Spotlight. A website dedicated to cuteness will be displayed here.

The first site that deserves a bright place is Stupid-Love. Unfortunately I can’t find any information about the illustrator(s) from Argentina, but just let the images speak for themselves .

Stupid-love also offers a freebie that you might enjoy: printout ghettoblaster for ghettopaper. You could leave one side of the box open and store your Ipod or other items in it.

Last but not least you can check out her photostream on Flickr.

Since I like to sell stuff through my Tamagotchi shop and eBay, it isn’t very surprising that they know my face at the post office. Whenever I want to ship expensive dolls or Tamagotchi’s I like to opt for Internation Package Plus. This is about the only way to ship a package with insurance and tracking number from the Netherlands. And believe me, it isn’t a cheap service to begin with.

But this Friday, for the second time around, the employee told me it was of no use to send a package with International Package Plus to the United States. I wondered why they would even offer that service in the first place if they weren’t willing to sell it to me… He told me that a refund -with a maximum of $180- was determined by the weight of a package. Great way of determing the value of a package isn’t it? Next time I’m going to ship a brick stone along!

His second argument was that it would -and this were his exact words- reguire a SUPER computer to be able to track a package that far. So I explained to him that this sounded odd to me, since I had shipped a Blythe earlier this year with the same service and could clearly follow her whereabouts online. Even across the magic borders of the Netherlands.
He asked me what numbers I had to fill in on the website in order to trace the package. I thought they should know that better than me… I was becoming a bit impatient since I had to catch a train, my hubby and I were planning on spending the afternoon in Amsterdam. So I said to him; “please send the package with Internation Plus”. By that time he had given me the form which I began to fill in. He mumbled that he was told to discourage clients in choosing this service for the United States. He thought it had to do with America’s blame-and-claim culture.

Well I can tell you that whenever a package does get lost, I’m always the one responsible. The only thing TNT does is answering my $1-per-minute phonecall and starting a half-hearted investigation which can take months. Gah, I hope this package will arrive safely. But by now I understand why their profits have dropped.