April 2007 Archives
Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:32:43 +0000
getting simple stuff wrong
I doubt I am the first one to wonder how a huge internet based company like amazon.(de|at) can manage to be unable to send un-broken e-mails, however I just cannot resist.
The regular plain text e-mails about orders (Bestellung erhalten/Bestellung versandt) are broken in a simple way, they are declared as Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii while actually containing Windows-1252 characters (Umlauts, Euro-character). I usually fix these in mutt with <Ctrl>-e.
This week I returned an incorrectly labeled product back to Amazon and in return received a surprisingly broken mail, header and footer as UTF-8 while the core of the mail is Windows-1252 again.
Looks like this in mutt
Guten Tag! Wir grüßen Sie ganz herzlich und informieren ine Erstattung zu der Betreff genannten Bestellung. Unsere Zahlungsabteilung hat Ihnen EUR 12,29 \374berwiesen.
etc...
Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:48:29 +0000
snowboard season 06/07
Following up on last year's report, this is what I managed 06/07:
| 2005/06 | 2006/07 | |
|---|---|---|
| number of (partial) days | 25 | 16 |
| Damüls | 10 | 10 |
| Diedamskopf | 15 | 3 |
| Warth/Schröcken | 0 | 3 |
| total meters of altitude | 124634 | 74096 |
| highscore | 10247m | 8321m |
| # of runs | 309 | 189 |
We simply had too little snow this year, the initial three visits (6th and 28th of January, 18th of February) did not feature a lot of natural snow but loads of people and were cut absurdely short (less than two hours of riding) due to the lack of fun. The real season started only in the middle of March and I have make the most of it. - The best thing is that I did not hurt myself this year. :-)
Have a nice summer.