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nice laptop. make sure to spend the extra dough and get the 1400×1050 screen cause it is awesome.
it has decent battery life of around 3hrs.
but the dvd/cd-rom doesnt read anything. not even store bought discs. i have had ibm ship me a new cdrom unit and it still stinks. however because i use this laptop primarily to program .NET i am still thinking about keeping it even though the cdrom is a glaring defect. the problem may be based in windows so i cant say for sure its IBM’s fault, but come on. out of the box and it cant play even my store bought DVD’s?
IBM ThinkPad T41 2379DJU

Book Review of Artemis Fowl, by Eion Calfer

GREAT! (4 stars)
Artemis Fowl is an action packed suspenseful book. The action is constantly shifting and keeps you on your toes. You would think one thing was going to happen and it would then totally change to something else happening. The main character is Artemis Fowl, an eleven-year-old kid who’s a criminal mastermind and he has the highest IQ in Europe and he’s a millionaire. Other characters are his bodyguard Butler, and Holly Short, A LepRecon Captain. If you’re wondering, yes–she is a fairy. Artemis Fowl is an evil, greedy, selfish character. ” I don’t care if I put the world in grave danger, the world isn’t me, and I will be rich.”

Butler is a highly trained warrior-bodyguard for Artemis. “Very well captain the beast shall live another day. Luckily for him I’m in a good mood. Holly is the first girl LepRecon recruit. LepRecon is a swat, CIA, Special Forces team, for the Fairy’s. Artemis fowl is a book about Artemis Fowl who wants to steal some of the Fairy’s massive amounts of gold. This book is SCIFI realistic fiction book. Most of the time this book is set in Ireland but many other places too. A book I have read like this one is the young bond book. Its like the fowl books because it has lots hi-tech gadgets just like Artemis fowl books. And lots of the same suspense, life or death kind of suspense. But by far I think the Artemis fowl books are much better and that Eion Colfer made a great book worth reading.

Lovejoy Complete Series 6

Microsoft Office Home and Student is perfect for my needs because I just wanted a program that has great features and tools to create some basic to advanced documents without having overkill. I really didn’t want or need any of the other features some of the other versions contain but all wanted was Word, Excel and PowerPoint and I actually got a Bonus of it having One
Note. I would highly recommend this product, a plus is that the price is right!!!
Thanks Microsoft for having a basic product that has quality. Thanks Amazon for carrying this product at a great price.

Donna
Cassone Painting Humanism and

I haven’t loved a book the way I did this one since The Secret Life of Bees. Cannot wait for her next one. What an amazing writer. I lost myself in this story! I just hope the film does it justice. But, if not, we always have the book. Bravo!!
ProMaster 72mm SystemPro Lens

My daughter bought this with money she has been saving for one year. She is thrilled with it…so much that we now have to limit the amount of time she spends on it. The internet capability is great and very easy to use. The wide variety of apps have been fun, useful, and educational.
The only real negative: We have never had an Apple product, so converting all our music from Windows Media Player to the Apple format and loading it onto the ipod is slow and very frustrating. It is a much more difficult process than using the Zune.
The Edge of Now

I have had this pedometer for 3 weeks and it works great. I have had many cheap pedometers before and they always start to count less and less steps which is very frustrating. This one also allows you to leave it in your pocket so the world does not realize that you are step counting dork. Plus, at midnight, it resets back to zero, so the next morning you don’t even have to remember to do that (you can still see what you have done on previous days). The only thing that you might want to know before buying is that it will only add steps if you are walking for more than four seconds. Those first seconds are still counted, but only after you have been walking for five seconds (I think this is to eliminate false counts), but as my five stars shows, I have not noticed a problem with that. In fact, I love to shock my friends by violently shaking it and showing them that no steps were added.
Linux Application Development For

I enjoyed this book but not as much as the other five star raters. The one thing that I did find worth pointing out is that by the end of the book I was cringing as I turned every page, afraid that the lead characters were going to be caught and that something nasty would happen to them. Very effective in that respect.

Overall, I’d recommend this book.
Heritage Farms Universal Pole

I went for this scale because it did the one thing I wanted, it was fairly priced, and because the reviews suggested that the company takes care of their customers.

When I first received the scale it did not work but I contacted customer service through the website (not Amazon but EatSmart) and they responded immediately. Within days (this included the weekend) I had a replacement that worked exactly as advertised.

I will most definitely use this company again in the future.
You Think You Really

I bought this based on a positive review in a magazine. We’ve cleaned two rooms in our house with it and were pleased with the result. Based on other reviews, we pre-treated tough stains, then only used boiling water in the cleaning reservoir. The only negative is that it’s time-consuming to fill and empty the reservoirs.
Dermal Therapy Extra Strength

This is your basic vacuum cleaner.

Set up: Had some trouble pushing the 2 screws in because the holes were misaligned. Took some effort and time to finally get them through the holes. The screws were not a tight fit, meaning they didn’t screw in tightly into the washers.

Vacuum: Only used once.
PROS: As far as I can tell, the vacuum does a decent job. The accessories work. Small and lightweight. There is a pull on the vacuum which makes maneuvering it easier.
CONS:The cord and the hose are a bit short, as mentioned in previous reviews. It is also very, very loud. I am certain the people next door could hear me vacuuming through the walls. Unlike the vacuum described in the manual, there is no light indicator to tell you which areas are especially dirty or clean. So, you won’t know which areas to go over more than once. There is also no sounds indicating it’s actually picking up dirt. I did notice the vacuum sometimes didn’t pick up little pieces of dirt that I could visually see on the carpet, other times it did fine.

Overall, you get what you pay for.
Pier 39 Fisherman s