What do we have for entertainment? Cops kicking gypsies on the pavement.

My favourite football team is Brøndby IF. Over the summer, they signed a player who had formerly played in the youth ranks of the club, but later signed for the large Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam. His name is Michael Krohn-Dehli. After returning to Brøndby, he has made an instant impact on the team, clearly fighting to be one of the best players in the entire league.

I’m a great fan of Michael’s play, so it seemed natural that, in buying a new Brøndby shirt, I’d get one with Krohn-Dehli on the back.

So I ordered such one at the newly opened online Brøndby shop. I placed this order on Friday the 14th of November (a week ago now). Yesterday, however, I received an email telling me that unfortunately, Krohn-Dehli shirts had been so popular that they had sold out. I would have to wait for a week before I could get mine.

This, all in all, was quite decent. Sure, it’s bad to sell out before you can inform new customers that you have so, but I would certainly have placed the order anyway. The great thing, however, was that they went at greater strides to satisfy me.

Yesterday, Denmark played Wales at home in a friendly. (In a game we lost 1-0, alas.) This match was played on Brøndby Stadion, which — you guessed it — is owned by Brøndby IF. What the shop did was to offer me two tickets, absolutely free of charge, that I could pick up at the stadium.

To rephrase: they offered me free tickets worth about 200 DKK, because I would have to wait another seven days to get my order. That is damn fine service. This essentially turned an experience where I could have become a little sour (“why didn’t you write so on the page?!”) into one where I was deeply awed with their generosity.

Of course, they could offer me the tickets, because they had far from sold out, and there was no chance that they would. My coming to the stadium would only result in a little more potential revenue from beer or hotdog purchases. Still, I found this a perfect example of how to treat your customers, once you mess up on your end.

(Also, because it was with such short notice, I was unable to attend. So in effect, they made me more than happy with the experience of shopping with them, and they didn’t even have to give me the free tickets.)

Tim Bray, How I Use my Mac:

I don’t use iTerm and I don’t use tabs and I don’t use screen. I just keep as many Terminal.app windows open at a time as necessary, and rotate among them with command-`.

Holy bloody crap. Not that he doesn’t use iTerm, but the command+` thing. I didn’t know. For years, I have been using Witch, which is a fine app, but is painfully slow on my old Powerbook. Thank you, Tim Bray, for enlightening me.

I came in here for a special offer: Guaranteed personality

My girlfriend turns 20 today. Happy birthday, honey.

Burn•E is a great example of how Pixar sweat the details. I would have loved to make this a link, but it seems Disney are moving in quick on available YouTube clips. The Kottke post that made me aware of the short film now also sports an unavailable clip.

I recently quit a lynx instance. Or, that is, at first I decided to quit, but then remembered something else I needed to do — so when it prompted me with an ‘Are you sure?’–message, I pressed n. To this, lynx happily replied: “Excellent!!!”, complete with three exclamation marks. Cute little thing.

The guys at Panic have really hit the big times — in the newest edition of YOYOmag, former Danish porn star Kira Eggers reveals having purchased a Transmit licence.

(I never thought I’d have to do this, but I feel I have to put up some sort of disclaimer: while I don’t technically [nor in any other way, really] work for YOYOmag, it is a magazine published by my employer, Print2People. They didn’t endorse this writing, however.)

When they kick at your front door, How are you going to come? With your hands on your head, Or on the trigger of your gun?

So, the world is abuzz with the new Google browser, Chrome.

Blogoscoped have a story on it, and in that they point out that there’s nothing live at the supposed URI, http://www.google.com/chrome. What you do get is an HTTP 404 error:

This could indicate that there is no Chrome project but lo and behold! The error page does not look like a usual 404 page from Google:

Thus, it would appear that the Chrome page is in fact a fake error page, for reasons beyond me. But it certainly looks like it.