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dreamhost slip-up made me a profit

Bramz — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:24:19 +0000

You remember this little slip-up of DreamHost? While some people got into serious troubles with overcharges, which is of course totally to be regretted, in my case I actually made a profit out of this. How? Well, let’s see:

On 16 January, they charged me 119.40 USD at a rate of 1.459 USD per EUR, which is 81.85 EUR.
They refunded me the same amount on 18 January at 1.447 USD per EUR, which is 82.51 EUR.

So, I’ve made a net profit of 0.66 EUR or 0.96 USD! That’s 0.8%. Well, it’s not much of course, but who knows? It might be the start of a small fortune =)

How do I regard DreamHost after this two million dollar mistake? Rather positively, I think. Of course, I wasn’t one of those people who got in financial problems, but I do appreciate their open and honest way of dealing with it. Maybe a little too open, if you read their first blog post. At least, they didn’t try to cover it up, and are willing to compensate everyone who got overcharges beyond the actual refund without whining over it. Even to refund the remaining of your contract if you decide to leave because of this. Are they going to loose money? Are they going to loose customers? Sure thing, but perhaps this way, it’s going to save their face on the long run.

gallery.bramz.net

Bramz — Sat, 05 May 2007 13:30:52 +0000

I’ve bought myself a Canon EOS 400D recently. It’s a digital single-lens reflex camera what means it uses a mirror to show the image in a optical viewfinder instead of showing them on an LCD, and that you can also replace the lens. I’m pretty happy with it, it’s a nice machine that gives you total control of the image you want to shoot. I only have the standard kit lens on it now, which is of somewhat minor quality. But good lenses are expensive, so I’ll learn to take better pictures first =)

Anyway, I decided to set up a photogallery because taking pictures without showing anyone is a bit … well … senseless. I’ve also made an LiAR album where I’ll upload some high definition renders made using my own renderer LiAR isn’t a raytracer. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost many of them =(

Warehouse Theme as download

Bramz — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:48:13 +0000

Using an image licensed under a share-alike creative commons license implies that I must make my wordpress theme available for others as well. And so I did. You can find my Warehouse Theme as a seperate download in the miscellaneous section.

first post!

Bramz — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:42:49 +0000

I’ve just moved in, so … let’s celebrate!

OK, OK, I know, I’ll have to redecorate a little …