I'm gleefully excited to have just completed my order for a brand new Lenovo Thinkpad T61 laptop. I've been a huge fan since my first Thinkpad 600 in 1999, followed by a T20 in 2001, and a T30 in 2003. They are extremely solid, well supported premium notebooks and are well worth the [...]
26
2007
My New Laptop – A Thinkpad T61
25
2007
Site Update: Wordpress 2.2.1, Ultimate Tag Warrior
I finally got around to updating my website to version 2.2.1. The feature I was most looking forward to built-in tagging. I was a previous user of Ultimate Tag Warrior, but I had to stop using it because it broke the Wordpress search feature (posts with no tags were not included in search [...]
24
2007
Joining Technorati
After reading an informative post by Paul Stamatiou on blog traffic, I decided to join Technorati and see what it has to offer. Truthfully, I didn't even know that it offered user accounts and statistics, but it apparently it does. Anyway, to get things started, here is a link to my Technorati [...]
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2007
Updates to My Home Theater Calculator
I just posted a revised version of my home theater calculator. The new revision adds the following enhancements:
Added feature to allow calculation of Visual Acuity Viewing Distance based on eyesight of the viewer. (The default is 20/20 vision; changing the input to 20/10 vision with show that the viewer will be able to spot resolution [...]
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2007
O.A.R. – Palace Theatre – Louisville (2007-07-16)
Seating Location: First row, 2 seats right of center
Show Rating: 4/5
Crowd Rating: 3/5
I was fortunate enough to get some pre-sale, front row tickets to O.A.R. and, after zero effort, convinced my friend Luke Shiver to join me. We left Columbus after work and headed south to Louisville. With a couple [...]
02
2007
Philips Pronto Returns: ProntoScript, TSU9400, Linux
I was ready to abandon the Philips Pronto platform, but the new Pronto Professional TSU9400 and Pronto Script save the day!
Background: I've been a user of Philips Pronto remote controls since the original TSU-1000 was released in 1998. Since then, I've upgraded twice and I carefully consider each new product cycle. I'd become a [...]
02
2007
TV Guide List of Top 30 Cult Shows of All Time
TV Guide just release their list of the top 30 Cult TV shows of all time. Of the 30, I counted the number of shows for which I'd seen at least 5 episodes: 11. I guess that is why they are cult favorites and not hugely successful favorites.
8 of the shows started in [...]
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