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Comment on Raw Runner Beans Can be poisonous, you are warned … Updated by David Kessler

David Kessler — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:16:15 +0000

I have eaten half a pack of ready-sliced raw runner beans and not felty any ill-effects (I may have gone to the loo a lot, but I do anyway). I had most of the remainder the following day – again no effect. I do suffer from HIGH blood pressure so maybe it countered that. However no vomiting, nausea or serious stomach upset.

However, having no discovered that they should NOT be eaten raw (from the small print on a Tesco packet!) I will follow the advice from now on and not take chances. Still I’m surprised that I DIDN’T suffer ill effects after what I have read.

Comment on fat burning furnace, pdf scams by the truth about abs ebook

the truth about abs ebook — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:14:27 +0000

I beleive everyone who needs or wishes to lose weight naturally definitely really do need be aware that these kinds of dietary fads is a waste of your time. These people really need to realize that to lose weight naturally you need to eat little and often. Some good help

Comment on fat burning furnace, pdf scams by colin

colin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:03:55 +0000

I was so fascinated by the amount of websites this guy had bought up to promote whatever it is he’s selling, if it was as simple and easy as he implies word of mouth would have sent the message three times round the world since he started his line of BS!
I am almost tempted to sign up just to see what kind of snake oil he’s selling.

Comment on Electro plate surface mount electronic components ? by ancient

ancient — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:12:55 +0000

or perhaps a way of spot welding components on lol, though the high current would damage the components theyre must be a way round it ?

Comment on Philips Sonicare Toothbrush Rubbish Product by ancient

ancient — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:47:25 +0000

Theyre recomendation of putting the toothbrush on the charger everytime would in fact further reduce the charge time of a nicad battery as you correctly state. Nimh’s would not be so harmed by constant charging, and is an example of how people on helplines can feed misinformation, these people are not experts, theyre just your average joe paid a meagre salary for not much but following a script. Nicads need deep cycling to prevent them degrading, yet at the same time not many batterys benefit from being drained to an absolutely empty state. Also all batterys as they are chemical technology will degrade over time, as such access to the batterys is vital from an environmental perspective.

you were a lucky case, im guessing youre in the US ? the truth is this, one good example of customer service does not great customer service make, the majority of people here received bad service, and a bad product. And the issue is not just about whether you had your toothbrush replaced, which is of purely personal benefit to yourself. Where do you think your old toothbrush went ? Landfill, I doubt philips bothered to repair it, the point is design as philips did, with this toothbrush was bound to waste environmental resources and create pollution.

the flaws with the toothbrush design were the following.

They used nicad batterys in the manufacturing at a point when nimh were standard > FAIL
They sealed the batterys into the case with a glued case design, and also glued and soldered the batterys into said case, making it completely non user serviceable, thereby reducing its lifespan, thereby wasting resorces and creating pollution > FAIL

The attitude that philips displayed in these choices is typical of large biligirent corporates nowadays, and it will not do, Apples lack of battery access is also equally poor design.

Comment on Philips Sonicare Toothbrush Rubbish Product by happy sonicare user

happy sonicare user — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:18:04 +0000

they suggest that you put the toothbrush on the charger every time you finish brushing. I don’t know why they recommend that, from what I know, if you keep recharging, it will actually shortern most rechargeable batteries’ life.

anyway, this toothbrush may not last long, philips does provide excellent customer service. Here is what happened to me.

My sonicare loses its power really quick. If I charge it for one day, use it once, and forget to put it back on the charger again. I can’t use it again.

So I decided to call philips customer service. they first instructed me how to reset the battery power, but it didn’t work. So I called again, they decided to send me a new snoicare toothbrush. I just got it today! ;) brand new, the whole case just like the package you will get from the store. And they also send me a fedex prepaid label, so I can send back the old toothbrush for quality control.

So if your snoicare stops working in less than two years, you should definitely contact philips.

Comment on Mary Portas Queen of charity shops rant Part 2 by Cassie

Cassie — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:42:08 +0000

I will come back to this and read it all properly when I have the time, but I just wanted to address one point that I noted in amongst all the ranting. “Go back three years later and see what happened….” in relation to charity shops – Mary Portas did nothing new AT ALL! It was new to Save the Children, and new to that one shop particularly that was one of their worst performing shops in the country, but everything that she did was already being done by the very professional charity retail staff in shops and offices across the country. Mary Portas herself had gone back three, five, seven, maybe even ten years in the realm of original ideas….and charity retail has been booming year on year for this long – so the ideas DO work.

Comment on Mary Portas utterly annoying. by nina jo rees

nina jo rees — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:48:14 +0000

I understand your point and you make it well. However, the object of charity shops is to make money for their charity. Anything that can be done to enable the shops make more money is to be welcomed. I don’t think regular charity shop shoppers would miss out if the shops were more professionally run. In fact we all might benefit.

Comment on Philips Sonicare Toothbrush Rubbish Product by Valentine Szmalc

Valentine Szmalc — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:38:47 +0000

I normally dont spend time to drop a comment, however it is difficult to find good information on this topic today. You did a fantastic job in this article and I may just go read your other blog posts now. Keep up the good work!

Comment on SD card performance for readyboost Conclusions by SD card performance for readyboost

SD card performance for readyboost — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:05:50 +0000

[...] sequential write performance is much worse, roughly half, but note the read perfomance of 4kb random writes is about the same, as such this 2gb card like the 4gb one yields roughly 5 x better perfomance than the hard drive with all advanced prefetch caching turned off on the HD, to reveal its base perormance at random 4kb random reads, the access time advantage showing through here. read the conclusions of this research here. [...]