My New Laptop – A Thinkpad T61

Lenovo Thinkpad T61I’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 extra investment [...]

Continue reading »

Site Update: WordPress 2.2.1, Ultimate Tag Warrior

WordPressI 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 results.) To [...]

Continue reading »

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 Profile.

Continue reading »
Written by in: Uncategorized | Tags: |

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 [...]

Continue reading »
Written by in: Home Theater |

O.A.R. – Palace Theatre – Louisville (2007-07-16)

Marc Roberge of O.A.R.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 of hours [...]

Continue reading »

Philips Pronto Returns: ProntoScript, TSU9400, Linux

Pronto Professional TSU9400I 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 [...]

Continue reading »
Written by in: Home Theater |

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 the [...]

Continue reading »
Written by in: Entertainment |
  • Recommended HDTVs

    LG Infinia LW5600 HDTVs on Amazon.com:
    -47": LG Infinia 47LW5600
    -55": LG Infinia 55LW5600

CarltonBale.com is powered by WordPress | © 1996-2012 Carlton Bale