Epinions Recent Reviews for renewal2

PayPal 2005 In Spite of Everything

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:43:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - Yup, I still use PayPal, now absorbed by eBay, a site I find daunting as I have found myself in a password warp that is not uncommon on monster sites. I do not think I could buy anything on eBay if I spent a week trying to get authenticated. No...

Panix Redux

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 22:17:14 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - There are names like Panix and Tucows and WSFTP and even Yahoo that were there when my Web life bega...

Henry IV and Re-Entry To Our Great Bard

Wed, 21 May 2003 12:18:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - I am hooked.

I am just plain tired of thick, formula, $8.95, action thrillers. I like Lee Child and James Patterson and others of their ilk well enough. But recently I was reading one of my favorites, Yale English scholar Harold Bloom, author...

A Beautiful Mind Indeed

Sat, 12 Jan 2002 22:25:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - One of the nice things about weighing in on a widely-reviewed film is that the hard work has already been done. So I do not have to reiterate the plot or tell you about John Nash's childhood and hometown. No, I am free do do what this movie made me do...

A Man in Full: Tom Wolfe Empty

Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:57:39 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - I'm a slow reader. So when I get a slow read I'm happy. Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full was a nice slow read until the end when it became lazy and implausible. I would have thought an author of palpable intelligence would be ashamed of such an obvious lapse...

MIT Makes A Winning Move

Wed, 4 Apr 2001 12:45:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - MIT is to be congratulated for taking the future of the Web

into consideration and encouraging all of its 900 or so professors to offer free in c-space all courses of one of the world's most distinguished

academic institutions.

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Napster: Napster Revisited All The Stars U Want

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 22:55:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - I am blown away.

I used Napster when it started, got irritated that it was everyone's greatest hits with no real depth and forgot it.

Read about the mp3 wars in the papers and gathered that Napster and mp3.com had made some sort of...

Hmmm. What Can I Add?

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 11:03:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - Roadrunner reviews appear to reflect highly individualized experiences that relate to location and the aims of the user.

The horrendous TV Roadrunner ad in which an irritating voice says, in a disturbing quasi-falsetto, "There are never...

Of Bluelight, WebFlyer, Altavista and Shrinking Free ISPs

Wed, 6 Dec 2000 20:57:50 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - Free means little to me when it comes to ISP's. The reason I don't enjoy paying for ISPs is that when the pay ones gum up, bump you off and otherwise act ornery, you get really mad. When a free one messes up, you either accept it, ignore it or delete it...

Network Solutions.com: Another YECHHHH!

Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:26:41 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - Lately I have been doing other things than writing a review every day or so on Epinions. It was not proving cost effective.

But I am very glad to see the computer section developing to the point where I can probably find a better registration...

Web Flyer IS NO MORE -- Effective 6 Dec. 2000

Fri, 10 Nov 2000 13:48:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - All good things come to an end. WebFlyer sent me a note today (5 Dec. 2000) telling me to forget them and sign up for free American Express internet access. In an oink-oink's eye! Membership may have its privileges but I don't want 'em. It was a nice...

Estos first Free ISP Smackdown

Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:40:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - Power user? That's too mild. I'm a certified, DOS-crash-alum, envelop-pushing ram-taxing, multi-tasking guy.

40 mb hard drives to 2K office T1s, memory is pushed to the max -- to the pleasing whir of machines in the very throes of...

Archived Web Services Reviews: FOUR COMPLEMENTARY E-MAIL SITES -- READ ON

Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:36:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - Blimey, I dunna have enough sites to write about the five best e-mail sites anymore. Only four sites now. So I come back to beloved self-created once-upon-a-time category Site Reviews to park this little episodic praise package.

Hokay, I'll...

Archived Web Services Reviews: A Rant Against Themestream

Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:54:34 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - My anger is generally spontaneous and I am very angry as I write this. Too angry even to wait for a reply to the letter I just wrote to Themestream, which boasts a new look, is lowering its rate from a dime to two cents per read -- and is otherwise...

TheMail: My Continually Amended THEMAIL Saga [NOW ROUNDLY CONCLUDED]

Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:54:19 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - 29 August/ Here is my text, then the story:

[NOTE: Check out the asterisks in the 12 September entry below to see what the Epinions censors find objectionable. Hitler was OK, right]

[FINAL NOTE: Below is now of ARCHIVAL INTEREST...

Archived Web Services Reviews: Yahoo Bookmarks -- Not A Category Here But It Should Be

Sat, 26 Aug 2000 15:01:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - I think maybe the best thing about Yahoo, a site I admire greatly, is its online bookmarks function. Computer by computer, at work at home, in between, I am consolidating all of my bookmarks on the convenient Yahoo bookmark page and making that my IE...

Archived Web Services Reviews: My Excellent FFA Adventure -- Chapter Two

Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:22:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - Am I ahead of the curve? I'm not aware of much attention to the FFA phenomenon on this site, nor have people flocked to my first chapter of my excellent FFA adventure.

To save you searching that chapter out, I can simply say that FFA's are...

Archived Web Services Reviews: My Excellent FFA Adventure -- Chapter One?

Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:35:40 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - Lord, forgive me. I finally took the plunge.

Anyone who has fooled around with site promotion knows that the first thing that happens when you get serious is that you encounter the illustrious world of FFAs -- aka Free For All Links Pages...

Archived Web Services Reviews: The Bush and Gore Websites: Gore By A Mile

Mon, 14 Aug 2000 13:56:16 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - I swear I would not tell you a lie, even though I am more favorable to Al Gore than to W, or as Ann Richards calls him, Shrub. My purpose here is to rate the candidates' official websites without regard to the merits as leaders of Messrs. Gore and Bush,...

WRITE ON!! The Cosmos's Best Bagel

Mon, 7 Aug 2000 11:05:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - Since I have never managed to access a Write Off, I figured I would declare a WRITE ON!! (Please note the two exclamations.) My reason is simple. I have uncovered a serious product about which you can make a decision.

You can decide by...

So Let's All Go To Hell in A Hummer (Warning! No Prod. Info)

Sun, 6 Aug 2000 21:58:51 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - If this doesn't get me zapped as an auto "advisor" nothing will. I think Hummers represent about the worst statement about where we have come and where we may go as a nation.

If you need a cultural reference for where I m coming...

Archived Web Services Reviews: Real Freeware Really Well Done

Tue, 1 Aug 2000 14:02:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - http://www.freewarenfreeware.com/index.asp

If you're in a hurry, copy, paste and click on the above and enjoy. You will find a truly decent site that gives you orderly access to well-annotated offerings in the standard software...

Archived Web Services Reviews: The Best Tiger Woods Site

Sat, 29 Jul 2000 15:49:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - I am continually amazed by the poor sites that cluster around mega-personalities. Out of date, so laden with graphics and ill-designed that you could not find what you were looking for even if you had two dozen synonyms for the intuitive link-word in a...

Archived Web Services Reviews: If You're Curious About Epinions, Schmooze Advogato

Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:03:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - I don't understand what makes me so curious about things I know I will never really understand. Code, for example. I have never written a line of code. Some little old DOS batchfiles which delighted me no end. But that's about it.

Nevertheless...

Archived Web Services Reviews: www.useit.com -- Jakob Nielson's Website

Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:16:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author renewal2 - It's all there in the title. If you want to see a site that does all it advocates that we all do, this is worth a peek.

Just who is this Jakob Nielson? Beyond the featured resident of www.useit.com? Well, he is described as a usability guru...