Epinions Recent Reviews for jethrohoyt

Perfect for travelling light

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:51:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - This tiny little notebook computer is the perfect travel machine for me. I use it when I travel for pleasure to download, manipulate and view digital photographs from my camera and to access hotel wireless internet hotspots to get travel information,...

Waterproof but not foolproof

Sat, 8 Aug 2009 16:15:50 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - Olympus Stylus Water, 550 - this is the US version of the u550 (European name) - same camera !So far I have written camera revues for my first digital camera, a Sony and my favourite Canon S3. Now it’s my turn to write about...

A Happy Choice

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:43:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - Our 12 year old Samsung TV sung its last song a few months ago and I have to say I was pleased. I would never have retired that hunk of glass and plastic but neither was I going to try to repair it. It went to recycling and a Wal-Mart special purchase...

A Great Portable Workhorse

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:48:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - I bought the Lenovo Thinkpad R61i< b> as a portable workstation for my business. My business travel is reducing these days so a lightweight machine was less important to me than function (and price). I have always been a fan of IBM...

Caffeine: I love British movies, I hated this one. Pushing the cringe limit.

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:19:24 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - I have a friend who got up and left Baz Luhrmann’s “Moulin Rouge” at the cinema after the first ten minutes. I adore the movie, own it, and watch it anytime I need cheering up. It was obvious that there is a hard-to-define...

DealYard: Excellent, discounted, box shifters. Know what you want and buy it.

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:16:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - I “discovered” Dealyard.com when I was trying to buy a faucet set for my bathroom tub. Many merchants set up shop on eBay and that’s how I bought a $250 Delta faucet for under $70. I was delighted. I asked them an intelligent question...

My Anchorage hotel of choice

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:55:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - This review describes the Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel in downtown Anchorage which is no more that 200 yards walk from the incorrectly flagged Epinions hotel. The hotel listed in Epinions is now (and has been for a few years) the Ramada Hotel. The Howard...

Worth every penny, but be warned . . . . . .

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:50:34 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - The Gatwick Worth Hotel is situated about 10 to 15 minutes van drive from either of Gatwick’s two terminals. It is located on the edge of the town of Worth near Crawley, set in delightful countryside amongst horse pasture and farm land. The hotel...

Flawed Perfection - but almost there!

Sat, 12 May 2007 17:23:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - This review describes my experience with the Canon Power Shot S3 IS digital, point and shoot, camera. It does not attempt to improve upon other excellent and detailed reviews, notable among them being Dkozin’s fine piece:...

My Hong Kong Hotel of Choice.

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:44:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - I am a business traveler who has spent hundreds of hotel-nights in and around Hong Kong in the last 12 years. My hotel of choice, when traveling alone in Hong Kong is the Salisbury Hotel in Tsim Sha Ttsui, ‘Kowloon Side’. Here I will try to tell...

Our own home theater room, at last!

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:55:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - We finally decided that this year (January 2007) was the year we would replace the old Samsung CRT TV in the basement and build ourselves a home theater room. We considered all options with lots of hand wringing and hair pulling, taking note of the...

An Ethernet Bridge Too Far?

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:05:07 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - The Problem The property where you want wireless network coverage is laid out in such a manner as the signal from your one and only wireless AP will not carry very far. If you start out with the correct wireless router then you may be able to...

Breakfast, a bed and a bar. - sometimes all you need.

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:37:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - There are a number of reasonably priced business quality hotels in Hong Kong and the Charterhouse is one of them. This hotel is located in Wan Chai district, less than 2 minutes walk from the HK electric tram line that runs the length of Hong Kong...

Not a Dry Eye in the House

Sat, 30 Jul 2005 01:28:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - More famous for its Scottish and Irish music, Britain is seeing a bit of a revival of its English folk music through the likes of Kate Rusby and Jez Lowe. Jez Lowe hails from the north of England, the north east in particular and his accent,...

D-Link Air DWL 520 (DWL-520) Network Adapter: 10% chance this desktop card will work for you

Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:31:04 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - Anyone who has suffered through my reviews will know, I love technical detail, spend too much time building and installing computers, networks and garden sheds and am usually forthright when I don’t like something. Such is the case with the D-Link...

Cables to Go Disk-GO! USB 2.0 IDE Adapter Storage Controller - Hi-Speed USB: A wizard bit of tackle

Sat, 6 Mar 2004 15:26:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - The Cables To Go (or CTG) Disk Go adapter is a cable, power supply and converter circuit all bundled together that allows you to connect any old IDE drive to a USB 2.0 or 1.1 computer port. The point being that you can buy IDE drives to drop into your...

NetGear MR814 802.11b Cable/DSL Wireless Router: There are problems with this router and DSL modems

Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:29:29 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - The Background This review is not all about the MR814v2 wireless router as there are plenty of general reviews to read (31 at time of writing). It is, instead about a certain set of conditions I have experienced when the router didn’t work...

The Journey of August King: An uphill, moral, mountain trail tale

Sat, 7 Feb 2004 18:59:46 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - John Ehle (pronounced Eeli) is a North Carolina writer of great distinction who writes best about his native mountains. His work is influenced by his native western NC upbringing (he was raised in Asheville, NC) and his interests in traditional...

Gorges, once gorgeous, becoming sad!

Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:10:33 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - First the obligatory background; Gorges State Park is North Carolina’s newest State Park and its first west of Asheville. It consists of a 10,000 acre tract bought from Duke Power creating 3,000 acres of game lands and a 7,000 acre park. Before...

This sucker met all my criteria and then some.

Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:52:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - As far as I know the Rigid brand is primarily available from Home Depot, and that’s where I picked up my new shop cleaner for the regular price of $39.99 (plus tax of course). The vac has a 6 Gallon capacity tank for trash or liquids and a 2.5 HP (peak)...

Tripwire: an excellent read.

Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:27:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - Lee Child is a British thriller writer, committed to writing American crime thrillers – and he has relocated to New York just to prove it. Through his Jack Reacher series of novels he has developed a good ‘superhero’ character, the lone,...

A slick Brit Chick Flick

Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:17:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - Its always dangerous to generalize, but that’s part of the fun…… British movies as a genre are generally ensemble affairs. Instead of one lean, mean and heavily armed superhero trying to save the world (including the ungrateful Europeans,...

Hewlett Packard ScanJet 3570C Flatbed Scanner: Hardware to die for, software to cry for!

Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:09:40 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - Why can two reviews of the one and the same product be so different? Sure, one person can have a bad experience with a bad product, but my theory is that it’s most likely to do with the needs and expectations of the user.

So, let me start...

A new type of adventure story.

Tue, 5 Nov 2002 20:19:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - There are travel adventure books and then I suppose there must be travel adventure books. From Joe Simpson to John Krakauer or Pete Goss you can while away your hours on the sofa living a high old life of adventure. Most have thrills and spills and deal...

Stiff competition from the floppy!

Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:51:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jethrohoyt - This review is for the SmartDisk USB floppy aimed at the Titanium user due to case coloring. As far as I can see it applies to pretty much all the SmartDisk USB Floppy offerings (part number FDUSB-TM). It is regarded as a VST floppy drive by the...