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Review: Harry''s Razors
About a month ago on the MacBreak Weekly podcast, I heard an advertisement for Harry's razors and decided to take a look. I was intrigued that the cost per blade was about half of what I was paying for my Gillete Fusion even when I bought them at Costco. The starter kit included a handle, 3 blades and shaving cream for $15 (I opted for the polymer handle). They also offer a 30 day money back guarantee which meant I couldn't pass it up.
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Review: Studio Neat Cosmonaut Stylus
A few weeks ago, my wife were in the dollar store (I needed a bag of salt to mix in with vinegar to try to kill some vines) and I saw that they had touchscreen styluses. I haven't used a stylus on a device in years and decided for $1 to give it a try. I started using it and was surprised (not sure why) that it required pressure to use due to a capacitive touchscreen versus a resistive touchscreen. I was intrigued enough to purchase a Studio Neat Cosmonaut
stylus based on a number of reviews.
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Delivering on what was promised
In October, I purchased a 50" Vizio TV to go in our freshly remodeled home. It had all the standard TV features, but 2 that interested me were the "apps", in particular Amazon Prime streaming, as my Apple TV didn't do that and the WiFi direct remote. the Amazon Prime app turned out to be such a dud that I ended up buying a Roku box primarily for that feature. However, the WiFi direct feature was one that I really wanted so that I didn't have to aim the remote at the TV. This became even more important due to a poor design decision where Vizio basically put the IR receiver on the bottom left of the TV. Since our TV wasn't mounted above a fireplace, the IR window wasn't really visible, so the IR remote didn't always work.
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Tweaking a web server with Nginx
A few weeks ago, I started playing with nginx as a replacement for Apache. The exact reasons I decided to do this are a bit unclear, but I think it had something to do with me playing with node.js and MongoDB. The initial setup was pretty smooth and the configuration files are much easier to understand than Apache for my sites. However, I also decided to offload the PHP processing to php-fpm and that's where the problems began. My VPS is pretty lightweight and doesn't have a lot of RAM. My blog was running out of memory all the time and php-fpm stopped responding.