It looks like our HVAC contracting nightmare starring Apollo Johnsen and his Day and Night Furnace Company is finally coming to a close. What a relief!
The company for which I work is in the information security business. You remember George Orwell’s 1984? The stuff created here is Big Brother v2006 and it’s freaking scary! The office computer is no longer your friend (assuming it ever was) and instead it’s purpose is to monitor everything — including printing, emailing, web surfing, [...]
Apollo Ray Johnsen, a.k.a. Dennis Ray Johnsen (Contractor License # 747061):
This is your last opportunity to refund the full $4,100 for the fraudulent work you performed on my heating and air conditioning system before I devote my considerable spare time to making sure that all appropriate government agencies and consumer organizations are aware of your [...]
I sent a letter via certified mail to Day & Night Furnace Co (Contractor License #747061; owner Apollo Ray Johnson, aka Dennis Ray Johnson) today after realizing that we’d been completely taken for a ride.
Yet another fraud warning:
A charge appeared on my Citibank card on April 8 for $9.95 from MAXIWEBINTRO with a listed phone number of 253-660-0328. A quick web search revealed that the charge is a scam, a result of charges of randomly selected credit card numbers. Fortunately, after a few minutes of questioning, Citibank automatically found [...]
Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, based the cornerstone of his marketing campaign in the mid-80s on “Made in America”, offering to pay 5% more for goods manufactured in the United States — a practice and ethic long gone at the world’s largest retail store.
Today, consulting firm Retail Forward estimates that 50% to 60% of [...]
Some moron claiming to be associated with DomainsNext.com called me at home at 10:00 p.m., just a few minutes ago, claiming that I had written something about the company here on RR… Despite my assurance that I’d never written anything about them and that I had instead focused on their affiliate company, the infamous ItsYourDomain.com, [...]
I split the flurry of emails between domain name registrar ItsYourDomain and me into two posts.
Ted Cucci, Executive VP Operations for ItsYourDomain.com replied to my request to honor his own statements, obviously with no intention to do so:
Richard, your request needed to come before the name was deleted. It is offered as a courtesy when [...]
Once ItsYourDomain received my letter than I sent to ICANN, a flurry of emails went back and forth, unfortunately solving nothing.
I’m republishing this piece of spam just because I think it so funny:
In what CEO Bill Gates called “an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors,” the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
With the patent, Microsoft’s rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products [...]
