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Sinutab

argolon — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:04:32 +0000

Review of Sinutab
This is one of the old reliable over the counter medicines that still does exactly what it says on the packet. It clears up congestion and relieves pain. Of course when you look at the ingredients they are hardly earth-shattering. Pseudoephedrine Hydrocloride and Paracetemol. The first is also used for many anti-allergy medicines.

It works for me so I happily use it. Criticisms? Well the presence of paracetemol is not flagged strongly enough and you may not realise it contains it. And of course if you live in the USA, you can get generic versions of drugs like this for less than one quarter the price. Of course we are not so lucky in Europe.

Review of WordPress Tags

argolon — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:07:48 +0000

Review of WordPress Tags

Yet again the wordpress geniuses excel at screwing up a decent idea. They added built-in tagging (good), they did it as rel-tag on the page (good), they embed them as categories in the RSS feed (utterly retarded).

LouderVoice: tagging, lvreview, rating=1, wordpress, stupidity

Review of Ubuntu 7.10

argolon — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:48:47 +0000

Review of Ubuntu 7.10

I’m hugely impressed with this linux distribution. It has come on a long way in the past few releases. Installation on a brand new Vostro 200 was simplicity itself and took about 10 minutes. VMWare Server runs fine on it and you can put together a full LAMP install etc with a few simple commands.

Sure I still hate the brown but this is a fast reliable slick OS that may finally move me away from Fedora Core and CentOS

LouderVoice: tagging, lvreview, rating=4, ubuntu, linux

die wordpress coders die

argolon — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:35:01 +0000

Jaiku
This Finnish competitor to Twitter is a fantastic micro-blogging and life-streaming site. Every time Twitter goes down they gain more users. But is it enough?

I joined Jaiku a while after Twitter and actually found it a far more pleasant site to inhabit. It reeks of deep thought in its design and every new feature just seems to “fit”. The threaded commenting and channels are the two killer features it has over Twitter. Of course, as James often points out, you lose some of the random encounters that you can get on Twitter but I’ve been having fewer and fewer incidents of that over there. The single biggest reason for not using it exclusively is that most people I know are over on Twitter.

Last weekend’s Twitter downtime was not the first but it annoyed me sufficiently to make me seriously wonder if I would move. Last night’s 2.5 hour (now 12 hour) “upgrade” may be the one of the last nails in the coffin. Suddenly Jaiku was buzzing with Twitter refugees this afternoon and its true power shone through.

I may set up some bridges between the two sites so I can see some of the Twitter traffic on a much culled friends-list. I may also use some of those tools which will send a copy of my Jaiku messages into Twitter. But as of right now, I’m in no rush to head back over to the blue mini-monster and I’m happy in Finland Finland Finland.

Rated 4/5 on Sep 6 2007 by Conor O’Neill
Review Tags: jaiku, twitter, micro blogging, lifestream
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you idiots change the markup based on newlines? Jesus!

argolon — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:32:52 +0000

Jaiku
This Finnish competitor to Twitter is a fantastic micro-blogging and life-streaming site. Every time Twitter goes down they gain more users. But is it enough?

Rated 4/5 on Sep 6 2007 by Conor O’Neill
Review Tags: jaiku, twitter, micro blogging, lifestream
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I may be forced to go postal on your asses

argolon — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:31:22 +0000

Jaiku
This Finnish competitor to Twitter is a fantastic micro-blogging and life-streaming site. Every time Twitter goes down they gain more users. But is it enough?

Rated 4/5 on Sep 6 2007 by Conor O’Neill
Review Tags: jaiku, twitter, micro blogging, lifestream
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Well meaning bullshit

argolon — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:28:44 +0000

Jaiku
This Finnish competitor to Twitter is a fantastic micro-blogging and life-streaming site. Every time Twitter goes down they gain more users. But is it enough?

Rated 4/5 on Sep 6 2007 by Conor O’Neill
Review Tags: jaiku, twitter, micro blogging, lifestream
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Stop changing my markup you utter pricks

argolon — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:27:21 +0000

Jaiku
This Finnish competitor to Twitter is a fantastic micro-blogging and life-streaming site. Every time Twitter goes down they gain more users. But is it enough?

I’ve been one of the most active users of the Twitter micro-blogging website in the country for quite a while. However I have also been a vocal critic. It’s brilliant simplicity in doing one thing well is being damaged by its inability to do that one thing well.I joined Jaiku a while after Twitter and actually found it a far more pleasant site to inhabit. It reeks of deep thought in its design and every new feature just seems to “fit”. The threaded commenting and channels are the two killer features it has over Twitter. Of course, as James often points out, you lose some of the random encounters that you can get on Twitter but I’ve been having fewer and fewer incidents of that over there. The single biggest reason for not using it exclusively is that most people I know are over on Twitter.

Rated 4/5 on Sep 6 2007 by Conor O’Neill
Review Tags: jaiku, twitter, micro blogging, lifestream
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Test

argolon — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:23:06 +0000

Jaiku
This Finnish competitor to Twitter is a fantastic micro-blogging and life-streaming site. Every time Twitter goes down they gain more users. But is it enough?

Rated 4/5 on Sep 6 2007 by Conor O’Neill
Review Tags: jaiku, twitter, micro blogging, lifestream
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Test From Flock

argolon — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:32:25 +0000

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