February 2008

being new does not make it better

February 18, 2008

Bah!  Jel­soft, the com­pany that owns the vBul­letin forum script has released a new beta ver­sion of their soft­ware. And it seems a lot of vBul­letin admins think this is the be-all and end-all of forum soft­ware.  Ah, well, I’ve never been good play­ing the sheeple role. Frankly, I think Jel­soft have wasted their own […]

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Another remarkable shave

February 17, 2008

I’ll admit to being a shav­ing cream fan.  I like Pro­raso Green, Pal­mo­live and Arko.  I’ve always been able to mix a really great lather with these creams, par­tic­u­larly with this new Omega brush.  When it comes down to a thick lather, these creams all shine. But you’ll have noticed by now that I’m also a […]

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Let’s be careful out there

February 17, 2008

I was always a big fan of the tele­vi­sion series, Hill Street Blues.  One of the oft-repeated lines in the show took place near the begin­ning of each episode, as Sgt. Phil Ester­haus (por­trayed by Michael Con­rad) was turn­ing out his day-shift force.  Every episode, he would utter the warn­ing, “Let’s be care­ful out there.” I […]

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II — the sequel">sputnik II — the sequel

February 16, 2008

I kept giv­ing that Sput­nik blade some con­sid­er­a­tion and felt it deserved a sec­ond chance. A lot of double-edge razor users like to use the late 1940’s and early 1950’s Gillette Super Speeds. I own a few of them and frankly, I’m not such a big fan of them. I like the longer han­dle on […]

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Another blade test

February 15, 2008

After read­ing all the pos­i­tive remarks about the Sput­nik blades, I decided I may as well give one of these blades a test. I had been notic­ing Leisureguy had been remark­ing quite favor­ably about the Sput­niks I had a small assort­ment of blades, sent to me by Gio­vanni at Bar­bi­eria Ital­iana, and there was a […]

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