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

Avoid SonicCameras.com like the plague
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!

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
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

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!

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

Born Again
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

Get all your vitamins

Solaris back in the race
They 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

Looking for options
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.
