I wanted to send the harddisk that broke down a while back to the company where I bought it (HardwareTotaal.nl). So I emailed them and got a very “direct” response saying “not our responsibility, go annoy Samsung”. This is not what I was used to, as I am used to companies like Alternate that have a very nice RMA procedure.

Obviously I didn’t leave it at that, so I started sending a whole bunch of emails. Unfortunately this week their website showed me this message that explains why it will no longer be “their responsibility”:

(Short Translation: It is no longer possible to place orders. We decided to request bankruptcy.)

I saw so many people at BarCampLondon2 with their own Moo Cards that I decided to ditch my old business cards and get some myself. I really loved the idea of personalizing your cards, and not having 250 cards with the same design. So I ordered 100 (minimum) with some of the nicer images in my Flickr feed.

Now, I learned a wise lesson with my last business cards that made it very worthwhile to buy only 100 this time for the same price (19.99 euro) as the 250 I bought before. The whole idea of buying a lot of identical business cards is just ridiculous unless you are a sales person. For the rest of us fewer is better because we are (A) not popular enough that we would be going to run out of them soon and (B) if we will, we are probably popular enough that the important people manage to find you without.

Now if you think you would eventually definitely run out of the cards, it is still good to only buy a few. I, for example, ordered 250 a while back, on which most of the information is now outdated due to my move to the UK. Buying less cards makes it easy to update your information and maybe once in a while choose a fresh design.

I had some really serious trouble with my old server (which is still in the Netherlands managed by an ex-housemate) so Alper offered me some space on his DreamHost account. Tonight I managed to move the files but somehow I have some issues with the OpenID login for users. So for now no OpenID login, because I need my sleep.

Update: OpenID “should” work again.