I just got a promotional email from Café Press specifically for Canadian residents (title: Canadians – feel the love). It pushed a lot of maple-leaf-covered schlock with gushy Canadia-praising.
I found it annoying, and not even because of the maple leaf logos (which are relatively rare here in Quebec). I had an extremely poor experience last time I ordered a shirt from Café Press. Because they fulfill Canadian orders from the US, they're subject to import duties. My order got caught by the feds, and I had to pay an additional sixty percent. (See Journal/14 Prairial CCXIV).
I'm not gonna "feel the love" until they figure out the problem and make sure I don't get hidden charges from the Canadian Border Patrol. A Canadian fulfillment centre would probably do the trick, but I've heard that shipping Federal Express also fixes a lot of border duty problems.
tags: cafepress canada borderduty taxes emailnewsletter
Gunning for the B-list
So my technorati page for this blog shows me with an authority rank of 96, putting me just on the cusp of being a b-list bloglebrity (authority > 100). Technorati rates blogs by how many other unique blogs have linked to them in the last 6 months, so I just need four new links to go over the top.
I have a few essays on the back burner of my Todo list, but there's a temptation to just do something negative to get those last few links. Could I come up with some more creative slurs against for Lars Wirzenius? (ref: Journal/6 Fructidor CCXIV, bottom of the page). That'd be good for 3-4 links from Planet Debian right there.
tags: b-list technorati bloglebrity planetdebian larswirzenius