Brian Armstrong's Reviews


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Posted almost 4 years ago for Last.FM

Recommendations aren't quite as smart as Pandora, but it works internationally ($3/month) unlike Pandora.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for Quickbooks

I find the learning curve to be quite steep for this application and the user interface looks like something left over from the 90's era of software. It's not cheap either. GnuCash may be a better alternative...for now I just use Excel.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for Terminator 2

One of the few sequels that surpassed the original. It is also perhaps one of the only sequels where MORE special effects actually made it better. Undoubtedly a classic.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for Heat

This movie is brilliant and I believe was the first film to feature both Pacino and DeNiro. It's doesn't get as much recognition as it deserves I don't think but it's truly a classic.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for Brazil

This is a bizarre 1980's movie set in a retro-future. It has a young DeNiro and Peter Sellers. It will probably make very little sense to you the first time you watch it, but I've now seen this movie probably 5 times and every time I find another layer hidden that I hadn't seen before. How many movies can say that? This is the kind of movie where you leave impressed with the kind of person who could imagine and create something like this. It's in a whole class of it's own.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for Hurt Locker

This film must have had zero marketing budget because I never heard about it when it was coming out, but it is now spreading by word of mouth much like My Big Fat Greek Wedding. It's a brilliant and authentic look into a U.S. Army bomb squad unit in Iraq. The unknown actors have some amazing talent and make it that much easier to "lose" yourself in the movie since you aren't constantly reminded that you're watching Brad Pitt (or some other big star). Definitely worth checking out.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for True Blood

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Posted almost 4 years ago for Mozy.com

Stopped working when I started traveling. Doesn't resume files that it got part way through so with a big file on a wireless connection it's unlikely to ever complete a backup and just keeps starting over at square one.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for Drupal

Tried Drupal briefly a few years ago before finding wordpress. Found it very difficult to use and was happy to move to Wordpress. Never looked back.

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Posted almost 4 years ago for Wordpress

I love wordpress, it's flexible, has tons of plugins, is reliable and easy to understand. The interface continues to improve with each release.



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