Christmas Card

How hard can it possibly be to send a few christmas cards? It doesn't sound very advanced. You really shouldn't have to be a rocket scientist to figure it out.

Yet I spent eternity -- that's what it felt like -- trying to send 20 something cards using a service called "real postcards" from the Swedis postal service "posten". I retrieved my password and realized it was two years since my prior use of this service.

I uploaded my jpeg and was told that the quality was excellent - of course it was. I had followed the instructions to the letter. The interface was really slow as I entered address after address. For each address I had to agree to a security warning since not all info on the webpage was encrypted. It took ages.

Finally it was time to click "next". I did. I waited. I got an error message. I tried again. And again. And AGAIN. No luck.

I was wishing I could have the systems developer responsible close enough to hit everytime something went wrong. Maybe it was a good thing, that there were no such people in my office.

Eventually I gave up and went home.

Then I found out on webmasternetwork.se that someone actually managed to send Christmas cards using the webpage today. I tried again and it worked. Apparently my VISA didn't and I wasn't trustworthy enough to get an invoice -- but I did it! I've sent all my Christmas greetings.

Two to the US. It will be interesting to se if they actually get there.