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Because Google didn’t help much when searching for a review of this shop I figured I’d post my own (on here, because signing up for other sites is too much work). It’s not particularly interesting, but maybe it will help someone decide whether or not to shop with the people over at headphone-mania.co.uk / Audio Mania, Ltd.

I ordered a set of “Priced almost too good to be true” Sennheiser CX-400 II in-ear earbuds from them late March. On April 1st my order was dispatched, according to their system. After lots of waiting, I sent them an e-mail on April 17th asking if they knew where my order was, or if they could find out. I was redirected to some UK-only website where I could enter my (UK) address and get some “Lost in the mail” form to print and send in to Royal Mail. I immediately mailed back that this won’t work because I live in Spain and their form would only accept UK addresses.  I also asked if they could send me a PDF copy.

On April 22nd I hadn’t heard back yet, so I sent another somewhat irritated e-mail asking them to either get on it or refund my order. A few hours later I received an e-mail from their credit-card merchant service saying that my order had been refunded.  A few minutes later I got this gem of an e-mail from the shop’s sales-person:

Unfortunately we are no longer able to ship abroad due to a change in our terms and conditions.
We have cancelled your order and your card has been refunded.
Apologies for any inconvenience.

Regards

Sarah

Headphone Mania

Apparently it took them a while to figure out where they do and do not ship to.  Oh well.  This was just my experience with them. Maybe they are great if you can get them to actually send you stuff.  Personally, I’m not very impressed and wouldn’t order there again even if they let me.

I haven’t checked my bank statements yet to see if everything is in order, but I assume it will be.  If not, I’ll update this; unless of course they rob me so hard I get kicked off the Internet for vagrancy.

I went to the Madrid Zoo-Aquarium and photos are now online.

Back in 2000, I wrote a small software utility called deborphan to make my system a little more manageable.  deborphan searches for packages (libraries specifically, but also packages in general)  that are no longer in use on a Debian GNU/Linux system.

After moving abroad I stopped maintaining deborphan, and it is now being maintained by Peter Palfrader of the Debian project.

You can find the source and Debian packages on the packages.debian.org website.  Bug-reports, questions, etc can all be directed directly to the package maintainers.

This used to be my favorite passport scan to send to 419 Scammers; unfortunately, it’s expired now:

Here are new words to “Californication” and my only flash animation ever.  I made both of those roughly around 2001 or 2002 .

Here is the most bizarre security advisory I have ever seen.  It was posted to Bugtraq in May 2003 by “the sad borderline homosexual clown. bazarr.” It describes a vulnerability in slocate in graphic detail.