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Pseudoephedrine wins.
When I have a cold, I usually take Tylenol Cold to help me feel better. It was my wonder drug because the decongestant Pseudoephedrine worked really well. Now they switched to a “new formula” that uses Phenylephrine and it just isn’t the same. Pseudoephedrine works way, way better. I just noticed that my pack of [...]
May 12th, 2008 | Posted in Interests | No Comments
I bought an OCZ memory kit from NCIX in late December for the new computer I bought from Future Shop. Specifically, I bought the
March 26th, 2008 | Posted in Interests | No Comments
Today, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 was released to the general public. I’ve actually had SP1 running on my Vista Home Premium setup for the past month since I downloaded it from the MSDN subscribers’ site.
I must say, I’ve been impressed. My biggest beef with Vista was its file-handling capabilities especially slow file [...]
March 18th, 2008 | Posted in Interests | No Comments
I saw some robins in our area recently. It looks like birds are starting to fly back north for the spring. In my neighbourhood, there are lots of birds singing. The neighbourhood is fairly quiet, so it’s easy to hear the birds.
This robin built a nest on the fence in our backyard that separates [...]
March 9th, 2008 | Posted in Interests | No Comments
Mine is 5.6
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February 13th, 2008 | Posted in Interests | No Comments
When Canon’s consumer digital SLR cameras first came out, their sensor sizes were smaller than their film counterpart’s size of 24mm x 36mm. These smaller sensor are the same size as the old APS-C film size of 16.7 mm x 25.1mm. This resulted in the sensor only capturing a smaller section of the [...]
February 13th, 2008 | Posted in Interests | No Comments
Polaroid just announced that they’re getting out of the Polaroid business! If you’ve got a Polaroid camera, now’s the time to stock up on instant film before they’re gone.
In the days of film and long before the digital camera era, people turned to Polaroid for their photography instant gratification needs. Didn’t feel like waiting for [...]
February 11th, 2008 | Posted in Interests | No Comments
Mike Nash from the Windows Vista product team has just announced on the Windows Vista blog that Windows Vista SP1 has been RTM’d (Released to Manufacturing). I’ve been running Windows Vista SP1 RC1 for the last little while and it doesn’t seem to have really cured the file handling issues.
One of the amusing things [...]
February 4th, 2008 | Posted in Interests | No Comments
This is my sixth in a series of posts on my humble watch collection.
February 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Interests | No Comments
This is my fifth in a series of posts on my humble watch collection.
February 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Interests | 3 Comments