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In the Domino blogging community people have been putting up posts about how and when they got into working with Lotus Notes and Domino software. I wasn't going to post anything because my story's pretty mundane. I will follow up with a "How I got out of working with Notes" posting later..

In 1998, I started with a biotech services company in a mid-level systems administration role. Up to that point, my experience was mostly in call-center and desktop support with some server administration too. When I started with this new job, I was doing desktop support but also spent part of my time doing administration. The way our department handled coverage was that everyone had a primary and secondary area of responsibility and we all overlapped. I was strong in Netware and Exchange, so I was primary for those systems. They needed someone to back up the primary Notes administrator so they told me I was going to do Notes. We had 6 or so servers with a bunch of Notes client-based applications that supported a lot of the work that our company did.

The more I worked with Domino the more I was impressed with how the server platform seemed to be able to do whatever odd thing we wanted to do with it. I'll never forget one thing we did there. Since it's a biotech company, we dealt with a lot of sensitive medical and customer business information. We wanted to replicate selected information back to our customers but didn't want to do it over the internet for security concerns. We set up a dedicated Domino server for replicating to specific customers. We had selection formulas set up so that the replication server had the required information. Then we set up a Dial-up connection to the customer's server and made our replication server replicate through that. So the server would dial out direct and push the data to the customer.

When it was time for me to leave the biotech company in 2000, I decided I wanted to make a career out of working with Domino.

My next job was at a dot-com called Eyecast. Their business model was to digitally capture closed-circuit camera feeds, transmit them back to the servers in our data center for archival, and allow for real-time viewing and control of cameras over the web from a browser. Most of the work was being done by Domino servers on an s/390 mainframe. What we were doing there was so far out, I really started to love the Domino platform. It seemed like you could do almost anything...except make money appear out of thin air. Eyecast dissolved in 2001.

Without turning this post into a long-form resume, my next job was my last job as a Domino administrator. It would probably better fit into the post about how I'm not working with Lotus software anymore.

Just in time for Lotusphere, Lotus911 has released BleedYellow as a resource for the Lotus community....those of us that bleed Lotus yellow.

It'll be interesting to watch this evolve. As it is, it's a good way for Lotus software enthusiasts to meet and exchange ideas and learn from each other. I hope that eventually it will become a place where non-Bleeders can come and see that Lotus software isn't as ugly as it used to be and learn about why those of us that do bleed yellow love this software so much (the reactions to the news of Notes coming to the iPhone last week show that Lotus and the Lotus community still have a long way to go with that).

via Chris Whisonant, Chris Blatnick, Ed Brill, Duffbert, the Connections Blog and probably some others that I haven't seen yet.

I have ben thinking of what to write about Ideajam since it came out this week. When I started thinking, I figured it would be easy, but it turned out to not be as easy as I hoped.

The idea behind IdeaJam is simple enough...it gives members of the Domino community to post ideas for projects, changes, improvements, etc and allows other community members to comment upon and promote or demote the idea.

With a bunch of smart, active users, IdeaJam could be really fertile ground which could grow great projects at IBM, various business partners and would-be open-source developers. From where I sit, it's a great way for the community to give feedback on what they want in a more direct way than normal.

For me, personally, it's a way to keep connected to the Domino community now that I don't work with Lotus software in my new job. I've been thinking of ways to contribute to the community over the last couple of weeks. I haven't had any great ideas on my own yet, but participating in IdeaJam is at least a small contribution in the mean time.

I hope IBM and the Business Partner community see it as the opportunity that it is.

I'm also really curious to see how the IdeaJam framework works outside of the Domino community when Elguji puts it out as a product. While I think it's a great idea, I'm wondering how big a population it takes in a corporate setting to reach critical mass for it to drive itself.

Next week will be the last week for me to work at my current employer. I have been working at the same org in the same billet for over six years. I've grown a lot since the summer of 2001. So has the environment I worked in. I'm excited and am looking forward to taking my career to the next level in this new opportunity.

While I'm excited about the future, there is one thing about the new job that makes me a little sad. For the first time in almost 10 years, being a Lotus Domino administrator will not be part of my job.

I really love the community that has come up around Lotus as much as I love the products themselves. There's a lot of passion and enthusiasm for the Lotus suite of products that you don't often see for enterprise software. It's almost like the cult of Mac, but I think they party harder at Lotusphere.

I don't know if I'll get to work with Lotus software in my career. Only time will tell.

In the short term, I'm going to be throwing myself into my new job. Once I get settled, I'll spend time figuring out what I'm going to do about Lotus software in the future. Bruce Elgort, with his work on OpenNTF, Taking Notes and IdeaJAM is loving proof that you can be a part of the community and not work with Lotus software in your day job. While I don't expect that I can make the kind of impact that Bruce has, I may be able to find a way to contribute anyway.

I'm not going to tag this as "Show and Tell Thursday" but it this post is somewhat inspired by the phrase.

Sometime in 1998 I got my first taste of working with Lotus Notes and Domino. I was the new guy in the IT department of a biotech services company. The development group was doing some final pre-testing before rolling out a new application, and they asked me to check it out as a set of fresh eyes.

It was an unfamiliar application and at the time I had no idea what the intended users were meant to accomplish with it but I was willing to take up the challenge to see if I could break it...and I broke it. I got a repeatable Red Box of Death error and was able to explain exactly what I did to get it. The developers were able to fix the error and were spared an embarrassing post-lanch showstopper. I was launched into a new career as a Domino administrator.

I think I got a spot award from the department which was nice and always appreciated. The developers gave me the Lotus Notes mug pictured below which I thought was a really cool expression of appreciation. They picked this much specifically because of the tagline under the Notes logo:

"...because information has no value until it's shared.

I still frequently use this cup for my morning coffee. I also try to keep the tagline in mind as I go about my days. I think I'm a lot more valuable to the people around me if I share my knowledge rather than horde it.

Technorati Tags: Blogging, Domino, Lotus, Technology

I didn't make it this year, obviously. I did try to keep up with what was going on in Orlando this week but life and work haven't been very helpful in allowing me to keep track of what's going on 862 miles away. I actually haven't seen the OGS stream yet either. Below I'm posting some of the thoughts I'm having about Lotusphere 2007:

Quickr looks awesome and I can't wait to get my hands on it and start testing. It looks fantastic. It looks like it's going to be a great answer to what Sharepoint gives out of the boxes (because it's hard to have a Sharepoint with only one box, no?). It's providing all of the Quickplace functionality plus blogs, wiki's, RSS feeds and some other stuff, all with a shiny new Web2.0 skin. With its integration into Microsoft Office and Windows Explorer, I'm wondering where Domino Document Manager comes in. I don't think that Quickr will absorb DDM but I can hope that using DDM as Quickr's repository will be easier. I'm glad to see that they're trying to make up for the fact that Quickplace hasn't changed much since 3.0 in 2003.
onnections sounds fantastic in theory, but I wonder about it in practice. It's probably going to be one of those things where some companies would use the hell out of it right away while it won't take in others no matter how much it's marketed. I'd be interested in seeing this in use outside the internal corporate sphere. Something like integrating it into the Notes.net profiles or something similar to allow the Lotus community to come together around.

I didn't see or hear anything about Domino Administrator, the Domino server or Domino Document Manager. They showed Notes and Designer 8 but no Administrator and there wasn't anything that I could find out about changes to the Domino 8 server. That's where I live when I do Domino...the server and Administrator. Lotusphere 2006 had a lot about R7. I hope we get more info before it comes out.

I really appreciate the Taking Notes and IDoNotes podcasts cranking it out at Lotusphere. Bruce and Julian and Chris did a great job at giving us a a good idea of the feel of what's going on at Lotusphere 2007 through their podcasts. With the madness that is Lotusphere, it's hard for those of us that aren't there to get an idea of what's going on down there. I know that blogging is hard down there and I can imagine that getting that many podcasts out with everything else going on has to be exhausting.

Technorati Tags: Jamfest, Lotusphere2007, Technology

Last year was my first Lotusphere. I had a bad plane ride over. Then I had the shuttle ride from hell over to All Star Sports where I was booked. The next five days were one heck of a ride. I learned a lot, walked a lot, had a lot of highs and had some exceptional lows as well. I had no idea how physically, mentally and emotionally exhausting it was going to be.

In the past, I always thought it would be interesting to go to Lotusphere, but never enough to really push to go. Now that I've been, I want to keep going back...I want to have another go and not be so overwhelmed like I was for Lotusphere 2006. This year's a bit different than last year for reasons I might go into later. I'm going to try to get out for Lotusphere 2008 but a lot of things can happen between now and then so I'll have to wait and see.

I'm hoping that more comes out about Domino 8 on the server side this year. A lot has been said about the Notes 8 client but the server is where I get things done. I don't think anything has been said about what's changed in the Admin and Designer clients either so it would be nice to have more information there. I haven't worked for an organization that deployed Notes clients to the end users in many years so, while interesting, the Notes 8 client changes aren't going to affect me much in the short term. I'm also looking forward to seeing more of the updates Domino Document Manager and Quickplace which are at least in desperate need of UI updates.

I'll be spending time as I can in the Lotusphere Live site if the office firewall will let me out to it. Either way, I'll be keeping an eye on the usual sources for info of the new and interesting things that come out of Lotusphere 2007.

It's supposed to be an interesting year and I'm looking forward to it.

Technorati Tags: Lotus, Lotusphere, Lotusphere2007

By default, the Domino web server supports the HTTP TRACE method. Retina Network Security Scanner (and probably other security vulnerability scanners) treat this as a vulnerability because for some web servers, HTTP TRACE can be used as a point of attack for information disclosure.

IBM has a technote out there called "Are there any known vulnerabilites in the Domino server related to HTTP Trace method?" . The technote states that there are no known vulnerabilities with Domino R6's HTTP TRACE method, but they also include instructions on how to disable it if the system owner wants. This is a good thing since it helps knock another hit off on a network scan by the security folks...it's much faster and easier to make that hit go away if you don't need it than it is to explain why it's there and that it's not necessarily a big deal.

The easy way to disable the TRACE method is to uncheck the TRACE box in the Allowed Methods section in the Configuration tab of the site's Internet Site document if the site is using them. Not all Domino web sites use Internet Site documents and some can't (Quickplaces still can't, nor can Sametime) since there is no Allowed Methods section in a server doc.

For non Internet Site doc Domino sites, you need to add "HTTPDisableMethods=TRACE" to the notes.ini. This will disable the method for all sites on the server, by the way, so you can't pick and choose if you're not using Internet Site docs. You can add other http methods here if you want to as well but that's out of the scope of this SnTT posting.

Technorati Tags: Domino, Lotus, Security, show-n-tell thursday, Technology

This blog runs on Movable Type. In its history, it's also been run on Xoops and Post Nuke. Before it was anything like a blog, it was just a hand coded (DreamWeaver and Notepad mostly) web page with information about our wedding (directions, etc for guests that could make it, pictures for those that couldn't). I made the switch to Movable Type sometime in 2003, I think and haven't really spent any time thinking about moving it again since.

I am a Lotus Domino professional (certified and some would say certifiable), so some people find it odd that I'm not using the Dominoblog template or the newly released IBM Blog template. I was asked that a few times from people at Lotusphere 2006 about that as well. At the time, I hadn't really considered a move and hadn't played around with the Dominoblog template.

I've been thinking about it more recently, and below I'm listing the barriers that I currently have for making the move. I only have a couple hours worth of time invested in messing with the Dominoblog template so far and none with the 7.0.2 template. There's a lot that I like about the template, and I'll drop that in another post after I have more time to play.

Cheap Hosting:
At the time that I was shopping around for a a host for my site (2001 sometime), I was considering Domino-based hosting providers. Most of the ones that I found had free options that were insufficient. I'm currently using about 80MB of space for my site between the content directories and the database. I don't get enough traffic to worry about hitting the limit in most hosting arrangements.

Importing of content from MovaleType:
In the past, I hadn't really worried about losing content on the site when moving platforms. The amount of actual content was pretty light. In the past year or so, it's picked up a lot, and I kinda care about the old stuff now. Anything I move to in the future must be able to import the Movable Type data that I already have. Probably doesn't really have to be Movable Type specific, if I can point it at an RSS/ATOM feed that has everything on the site, then import that.

Trackbacks
I've been fiddling around with the Dominoblog 3.0.2 template, and I don't see how/if trackbacks actually work. I haven't seen any Dominoblog based blogs that accept trackbacks. I'm wondering if that's a trackback spam thing or not. A robust anti-spam configuration is a must. I've been plugged into Akismet for my blog for a while and it's a beautiful thing.

Technorati Tags: Blogging, Domino, Lotus, Technology

Julian Robichaux came up with an interesting idea for an advertising campaign for Lotus Notes and Domino the other day. I like it.

"Need e-mail? Yeah, it can do that. Client and web applications? Yeah, that too. Portal? Yeah. Blog, wiki, RSS reader? Yes, yes, yes. Web services? Yes, we could do this all day..."

Where I'm working, I'm pretty well known at this point as the guy who says that a lot. When I started where I'm working, if I saw a problem that could be relatively simply solved by using Domino, I'll point it out and explain as well as I can. Eventually somehow it became a cliche....problem stated, "you can do that with Domino", eye roll. Sometimes a lone admin isn't a great candidate for a technology advocate, but I try...

So what I'm saying is that while I think "yeah, it can do that too" is true and a good idea, I would hate to see it turn out like my efforts have turned out.

Technorati Tags: Domino, Lotus, Marketing, Technology

I finally got around to listening to the Taking Notes Podcast number 27 about the upcoming release of Quickplace 8.

I'm glad to hear that IBM is putting a lot of thought and work into this release. Really, from my point of view there wasn't much new or of interest in the Team Workplace 8 over Quickplace 3 (I believe that the update changed the name and there was a bug fix or two, Extended Membership too). I haven't had a chance to really work Quickplace 7 out much yet. There's some good tweaks in there...the Editor access was definitely needed and I'm getting impatient about being able to use it, the doc type icons is a nice tweak too.

In the podcast, they mentioned a lot of new interesting features, and it sounds like they're holding a lot back. The standouts for me are the improved management interface, both for the system admin and for the managers of the individual Places. I'm really looking forward to hearing what info comes out at Collaboration University and if I get to Lotusphere 2007, maybe getting close-up hands-on time with it.

I haven't heard anything yet about something I've been wishing for since I started running Quickplace servers in 2.something (2.06 I think):

A user-accessuible/friendly listing of all of the Places on the server and some way to request access to the Place.

We've had the Place Catalog for a while now which has the info on all of the Places, but the database itself is a dirty tool for admins and developers and the server itself. There isn't even anything in OpenNTF or the Sandbox that addresses this functionality (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). Some orgs don't have access to their own Domino developers to write stuff like that...and frankly, I always thought it should have been part of the product all along. Sharepoint has it. :D

Technorati Tags: Domino, Lotus, Collaboration, Technology

Adam Gartenberg posted last Saturday on his blog that they were going to update the Sametime 7.5 demo site with beta 4 code this week. He also mentioned that they were pulling the Mac version of the client from the initial release. Bummer, but if it isn't ready, it isn't ready and I'd rather see IBM delay something than pug it out half-baked. I went to check the site this morning to see if they updated it yet and they did. Unfortunately, they seem to have removed the Mac client from the beta 4 code. That bites. Would have hoped that they'd want to keep testing the Mac client while it's being delayed. But then again the beta probably needs to be tested without the links to the Mac client too. Oh well. So much for ST at home for me. I'll work harder on the beta update when they bring the Mac client back, I promise! :)

Technorati Tags: Domino, Lotus, Technology

MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Make a domino cuff/bracelet:
A little bit of fashion for future Lotuspheres? Might go well with the CULT shirt to show your Lotus pride, no? I wonder how it would look using the stainless dominos that HADSL gave away at Lotusphere 2006?

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This would probably ideally be a Show and Tell Thursday thing but I din't have the answers so it'll have to be worked out with whoever has the answers...

Is anyone out there willing to talk about running Domino as an applications hosting platform for other organizations but not using the xSP install? There are a few companies out there that sell Domino but there's only so much I can figure out about how they manage the back end from digging around with a free account ID.

My background is more in the area of running Domino servers that are dedicated to the organization that owns the applications that they're supporting. I don't have any experience with situtaitons where you're potentially hosting applications and databases from different organizations on the same servers that don't necessarily trust each other. It's pretty simple to isolate the users and managers of different databases in SQL but you don't have to deal with certifiers and ID files and NAB access and other Domino-ish things like that. I don't see a lot of documentation out there either from IBM/Lotus or from anyone out there that's actually doing it with Domino.

Anything would help, but I'm really looking to see how people are doing it from end to end...ID/cert management, Permissions management, code updates, user/customer/application isolation, etc.

As I said at the beginning, I think that the idea form for this information would be a blog post, especially for Show and Tell Thursday, but I understand that some may not be so eager to post how their company does what it does. I won't talk about my employer on the blog here but I think I can make a pretty good case that what I'm working on isn't going to be competing with any other organizations and their products/services out there. If we have to keep the discussion by email or something, that's fine. I won't talk about my employer on the blog here but if competition is a concern, I think I can make a pretty good case that what I'm working on isn't likely to compete with anyone else out there.

Thanks

Technorati Tags: Lotus, Domino, Hosting, Best Practices

Here's the opinion piece.

I have mixed feelings on Show and Tell Thursdays. There's a lot of great information out there. The sharing of code tips and tricks is fantastic, but genereally not useful to me as an admin. Best case for development tips is that I'll see something I recognize and pass it along to a developer I know. Reading positive news and "I was able to accomplish X in my company with Domino" stories is always great too.

Maybe I'm just not seeing them but I don't see a lot of admin SnTT writing. It's hard to make admin interesting. There's a lot of things I do during the day that may be interesting or useful to other people but it's hard to pull it out of the context of my day job and put it out there in a way that's understandable and useful to other people in their environment.

If I think of something that I can write about I'll try to get it out for Show and Tell Thursdays in the future (like I did this week). What I have decided to do in the spirit of SnTT when I don't have anything blogworthy to post is spend more time in the Notes.net forums and answer whatever questions I can in there. That way at least I'm contributing something back to the community on a regular basis. I'm trying to make it a habit because I know that the more I give back in finding answers to people's issues, the more I'll be prepared to deal with new issues of my own.

Technorati Tags: Domino, Lotus, Show and Tell Thursday, Software, Technology

I'll put my thoughts on Show and Tell Thursday in a different post. Look for it (or not) soon. :P Here's an admin thing that popped up again recently for someone I know. It took me a while to remember what the fix was and it takes some digging in Notes.net or Google to find it so it sounded to me like a good SnTT post. This is for Sametime 6.5.1 on Windows. I can't vouch for other platforms. I haven't done this in R7 yet so I don't know if it has the same issue. If you do a lot of partitioned Domino servers like I do, you tend to try to keep all of your server-specific files in the server's data directory. Even servers that aren't partitioned I always put the notes.ini and the server.id in the data directory. It's one less step I need to do later if I need to migrate the server into a partitioned configuration. There's a problem when you do this with Sametime 6.5.1 servers on the install. You get throught the first part of the installation OK, but the second section of the install when it runs stsetup.exe, after you choose your directory type, the installer comes back with a "File does not exist" error. There are probably several conditions that can cause stsetup to throw this error, but in the environments I deal with, it's always been the same thing: stsetup is looking for notes.ini and the server id file in the program directory instead of the data directory. The fix is to just copy those files into the program directory before the Sametime install and then copy them back to the data directory when it's done.

Technorati Tags: Domino, Lotus, Show and Tell Thursday, Software, Technology

The time after Lotusphere is always interesting. Those of us that got to go get energized and then that energy ripples through the community including those that were not able to go. Since Lotusphere 2006, I've seen a lot more activity in the Domino blogging community, the creation of a new Anti-FUD blog at IBM, Show and Tell Thursdays, and DominoBlogs...the first (that I know of) attempt to create a central catalog of all known active Domino bloggers.

I thought of something that could use some more eyes: Wikipedia. Look at the following links for the Wikipedia entries (sorry, I'm English-centric) for Domino and Notes:

Wikipedia: IBM Lotus Domino
Wikipedia: Lotus Notes

The Domino server entry is a stub and the Notes client entry is almost a stub.

Compare:

Wikipedia: Microsoft Exchange Server

Not a whole lot more verbage, but definitely more up to date and arguable more useful.

Now I'm not advocating using Wikipedia for marketing the product, but a the same time, Domino tends to be on the losing end of FUD campaigns, and I think that the more useful information that is out there the better. I'm going to start looking into what I can contribute to the Notes and Domino entries in Wikipedia and I think that it would be a good thing if others in the community were willing and able to add to them as well.

Comments? Good idea? Bad?

Technorati Tags: Domino, Lotus, Lotusphere2006, Technology

Well, I'm on the flight back home (well, on a flight to Charlotte to get to the flight home). I've finally been to my first Lotusphere, and it was one hell of an experience! It's everything that's ever been said about it, and then some probably. I think my brain melted by Tuesday...I was making it through all of the sessions fine, I guess but once the structure of the sessions was over, I don't think I was handling it well. I'm not the most extroverted guy out there but the overwhelming scale of what's going on at Lotusphere combined with my being there on my own made me crawl back into my shell more than I expected to.

When I went to the BOF105 session, "The IBM Lotus Blogging Community" I actually felt pretty welcomed by the collection of established bloggers that I intentionally sat among. There was a comment at one point how the Domino blogging circle is a bit of a closed circle. I didn't really find that to be true. It is hard to feel like part of a group when it seems that everyone knows each other and you don't know anyone. But when you're right there in the middle of things, everyone's really nice and welcoming. Especially CD Exchange he came up with was a success as far as I can tell. It took some time to get it together but I gave away a bunch of CDs and got one from John and Pete Brown. There'll be another entry on their discs once I get a chance to get through them.

If you're looking for the info on my CD, it's on the entry from 22 Jan, 2006.

The JAMfests were really cool even if I didn't get around to getting up there and singing anything.

It's going to take me a while to go through and absorb everything I learned in the sessions at Lotuspere. I really think that some of the sessions had the content to make me a better Domino administrator, which was what I was hoping for. Genuine detailed technical content all over the place. The Best Practices sessions (thanks Rocky) were really good. The Infrastructure Design sessions were fantastic too, and those were most of what I hit.

I'm excited about the future of Domino as a platform more by being exposed to the people that are creating its future, than by the normal route via the marketeers. I'm ready to get back to work and fix some stuff and maybe try to do some innovating myself (while I don't talk about where I work on the blog, my employer doesn't tend to take well to change).

It was great meeting all of the people I got to meet and chat with while I was there (I'm horrible with names/faces, so I may need to be reminded of some of y'all if you make it to my lil blog. Will try to make it back next year and hopefully will be able to meet some more of you and maybe make myself a little more sociable than I was this year.

Beautiful Disgrace from the album "Punk Statik Paranoia" by Orgy

Technorati Tags: Lotusphere2006, Travel

Slow start this morning. Got to Dolphin in time to catch the opening General Session. Was more interesting and slick than the FOSE keynotes that I have to compare it to. The details are on other blogs so I'm not going to go into it. I am excited that they announced Domino R7 client for Mac and that the web admin piece will work on Firefox on the Mac.

Not quite where I want it but it's a step in the right direction.

I'm not going to be blogging the individual sessions anymore. There's too much to take in and do here for me to blog that deeply while I'm here. I might get a wrap-up in at some point.

Technorati Tags: Domino, Lotusphere2006, Technology

Well, I got in last night, so technically this is day 2 but I don't want to talk (write) about yesterday.

Got up early, hit the shuttle and got dropped off at the Dolphin. Registered painlessly. Realized that the "uncool" Lotusphere backpacks are pretty slick. Has enough space (that I didn't bring with me) for me to drop the rest of my little bags that I tote around wherever I go.

Wandered around a while, since I had time before my first session. Nothing eventful there. Forgot to get food.

More session stuff after the break...

Technorati Tags: Blogging, Lotusphere2006, Technology

OK. This is the post where I'll be putting my schedule in case someone's looking for those CDs or whatever.

Sunday 22 Jan

1030-1230 JMP103 IBM Lotus Domino Administrator Jumpstart DL S Hemisphere I
1230-1530 JMP102 An Introduction To All Things IBM Lotus Domino Clustering DL S Hemisphere II

Technorati Tags: Domino, Lotus, Lotusphere2006, Travel

So here I am. It's 12:15 am. I'm at the Disney All Star Sports resort waiting for Lotusphere to start.

Got here OK. THe flight was late. The bus trip from the airport took over 2 hours.

At least I'm in a quiet part of the resort.

The room's small but nice and quiet. No internet access. That sucks. Means I'm going to have to rely on the wireless cloud at Lotusphere for my connectivity. Which isn't all bad but it would be nice to have access to the outside world in the room.

More later, I'm sure.

When I start posting photos, I'll drop them on Flickr with the tag "Lotusphere2006".

Technorati Tags: Blogging, Lessons Learned, Lotusphere2006, Travel

This is the start of the Lotusphere-related entries.

I got the seat in front of the obnoxious crying toddler. Yay. Life is better on the ground.

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It looks like I'm finally confirmed and booked for Lotusphere 2006. That means I can participate in an idea idea that Jonvon had a while back....

A Random 'Sphere Idea

I'm going to put together an audio CD and burn 10 or so copies of it and carry them with me at Lotusphere. If you want one, find me and ask for one. Simple.

I think it's a neat idea to try out some new music (I'm going to be hunting the other participants down sometime this week if I can find them) and spread around some of what I've been listening to these days.

More later maybe. See y'all at Lotusphere!

(Updated) Sat 1040am

Well, my printer is croaking. The covers are going to be in black and white. Blah. Oh well. The idea's still there. At least I got the mix down. :) Here's for getting that straightened out for next time.

Technorati Tags: Domino, Lotus, Software, Technology, Travel

Yeah. I guess so.

I hate resolutions. I should resolve not to resolve anything for New Years but that doesn't make much sense.

I will blog more this year.

I will try to be more of a part of the Domino community.

I will get a start on my music.

I will get to the things I have lined up for the site that i haven't gotten to yet: a fountain pen article and a review of the Nokia 9300.

Tough from the album "Prick" by Prick

Technorati Tags: Blogging, Domino, Gadgets, Pens

This is my first work-related post, I think. One of the main things I've done for work over the last several years is admin Lotus Domino servers. I don't foresee this blog becoming a Domino blog specifically, but since this is my blog and I spend a good chunk of my time dealing with Domino servers in some way, they're bound to come up occasionally.

Also, since I'm an administrator and don't do any development (I know, I know) on Domino, I've noticed that while there's a lot of Domino dev's out there blogging, there doesn't seem to be a lot of administrators. Maybe if I post some of the things I learn in my journey that I'm not already finding out there might help someone else.

That said, the rest of this post is dedicated to my first Domino post. More after the break...

Falling from the album "Outrageous!" by Alice In Videoland

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