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If anyone remembers, I wrote an article a while back about Sonic Camera running an internet scam. You can find the article here.

I ordered a Nikon SB-600 flash from SonicCamera.com ($155) and received shortly an email telling me to call them in order to confirm my order.

Sure enough, after a very long wait, I was told that this flash was not a good one, but they had a better and more expensive product but they could give it to me for the same price.
The ‘better and more expensive’ product was a cheap Bower SDF35n ($70 on Amazon) and the agent got angry when I tried to Google the specs! he told me ‘Forget about Google, look at our website’.

I did not think we’d be important enough to be spammed, but it happened:

Some fucktard from Israel, with IP 84.109.80.111 decided to post ads about Viagra, etc.

If you are having a bad day and feel like harassing someone, you can call his provider on my behalf.

On Friday, I got a letter from Bank Of America saying that my check card might have been compromised.
I am going to skip the obvious about how much they usually suck and just post a copy of the letter.

After publishing the article Time Warner is sorry (also most read article on The Consumerist on 04/02/08, the Santa Monica Daily Press contacted us. They decided to put our story on the front page!

Desktop background for April.
To download click here.

BBC discovers flying penguins!

they have been a few times

Corporations are always sorry about the inconvenience as they take your problem seriously; I take my problem seriously, so I decided to share it with the world!
Our home internet connection is provided by Time Warner’s Road Runner service. We have subscribed to the Extreme feature, yielding 10 mbps… at least on paper. In reality, we have had an extremely unreliable connection paired with Time Warner’s abysmal support. Dealing with them is such a mind numbing experience words can’t describe the incompetence of their staff. To make matters even worse, we are not talking about a company in business to rip its customers off, like Verizon, but rather a genuine failure at almost every level of support.