If anyone remembers, I wrote an article a while back about Sonic Camera running an internet scam. You can find the article here.
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Sonic Camera had it coming
By thomas - Posted on July 12th, 2009
Tagged: evil liar camera scam thieves
Avoid SonicCameras.com like the plague
By thomas - Posted on December 5th, 2008
Tagged: evil liar camera internet
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’.
We got spammed!
By thomas - Posted on July 27th, 2008
Tagged: inconvenience
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.
Bank Of America Compromised
By thomas - Posted on July 27th, 2008
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.
Time Warner is sorry
By thomas - Posted on March 31st, 2008
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.
How I got kicked out by Nancy!
By thomas - Posted on February 26th, 2008
A frog in the chest
On February 14th, I woke up with a weird feeling. Something wasn’t right and it took only a few seconds to realize that I had a bizarre heart beat. As someone else put it, it felt like having a frog jumping in your chest.
The Mac Is Perfect - Almost
By thomas - Posted on January 23rd, 2008
Born Again
Having a discussion with a Mac advocate is similar to being cornered by a born-again Christian: All your faults will be exposed and only conversion can save you.
Similarly to religion, only blind faith can keep the Mac’s cool fabric together as the magic collapses at the slightest glimpse of logic.
Similarly to religion, only blind faith can keep the Mac’s cool fabric together as the magic collapses at the slightest glimpse of logic.
Santa Monica's filthy drinking water
By thomas - Posted on January 18th, 2008
Get all your vitamins
Minerals and especially metals by drinking Santa Monica tap water. We recently made the shocking discovery that our drinking water has rust in it. Have we heard about it before? Yes. Did we believe it happened somewhere else and to someone else? Yes. Well, NO! it happens to us right here, in Santa Monica!
Solaris back in the race
By thomas - Posted on October 1st, 2007
They listen!
Last week, I wrote about us discarding Solaris for a new project. Most large companies will not care and not listen to their customers.
Many of us have dealt with Verizon, Time Warner, Creative Labs, etc and know what I mean. After all, when you have so many customers, it is cheaper to lose a bunch of them and provide overall bad service than it is to fix real problems. After my short experience with Sun, I assumed it was the same:I WAS WRONG. They do listen!
Many of us have dealt with Verizon, Time Warner, Creative Labs, etc and know what I mean. After all, when you have so many customers, it is cheaper to lose a bunch of them and provide overall bad service than it is to fix real problems. After my short experience with Sun, I assumed it was the same:I WAS WRONG. They do listen!
We won't use solaris
By thomas - Posted on September 25th, 2007
Looking for options
We are thinking about getting another server for new projects in the works.
Currently we are using CentOS and it works great, so in all logic the next server will also use the same OS.
Being curious and a bit geeky, I am still looking at options. I used Solaris a long time ago and I came across posts about how Solaris is now open source, etc and I thought I’d have a look at it.
Being curious and a bit geeky, I am still looking at options. I used Solaris a long time ago and I came across posts about how Solaris is now open source, etc and I thought I’d have a look at it.
