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I hate doing these kinds of things because it feels like I'm just running around following the crowd. This particular thing is going around the Lotus Notes/Domino community.

I do tend to get some odd results on these things though. This is no exception.

I'm learning to play guitar these days. I'll have to remember this if I ever have an album to do.

The game goes like this:

Band name from Wikipedia random page, the album title is the last four words from the final quote on the random quotes page and the art should be the third image from the Flickr Interestingness / Last 7 days page.

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.

Yeah, it's been a while since I posted anything here.

I still have a few things in my mind and in draft mode in ecto that I haven't gotten to finishing out yet.

I hate excuse postings, but with the new job, hosting Christmas and some other stuff that's going on I have more that needs to get done now that things like blogging get back-burnered.

Will be back next week, I hope.

Have a good Christmas everyone.

I have been meaning to step up my blogging over the last several months but it doesn't seem to be working out that way. I'm finding that the harder I try to come up with things to write, the less I'm able to think of.

I'm sure that part of my blockage has to do with some things going on in the background here that I'm not going to talk about for a while. I do have one item that I'm working on specifically to feed out to another website, but it's taking me longer than I'd hoped to get it all together.

I've seen a lot of interesting stuff out on the net lately on different topics but I'd rather not turn this into just ann outgoing link farm.

In the end, this post is pretty useless, but that's how it goes sometimes. I'll probably have a bunch of things to post now that I've admitted that the well's kinda dry... Oh well

Actually, I have been for a while. My brother and sisters are right in the middle of the target demographic for things like Facebook so that's how I ended up with an account there. I have pretty much ignored it since signing up, only hitting it when my brother posts something to my wall or tagged me in a photo, etc.

I received a couple of new friend requests recently from people I know recently, so I'm spending a little time poking around the site lately. It's interesting. I don't know if I'll use it much yet...it depends on how well I can integrate it with this site because I intend this to be the authoritative source for internet content that I have created.

Here's my Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=506943416

I also have a profile on Virb. It's more neglected than Facebook, but I tried it out specifically because I can have it publish an RSS feed of this site.

My Virb profile is here: http://www.virb.com/scottgentzen

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Since I got back from vacation, I decided that I wanted to make a more concentrated effort to put more into this site. Just looking at the front page, though it doesn't look like I succeeded but I actually am getting some things done.

Once I got Movable Type set up I started moving entries over from what used to be a photo blog that I ran on the site separate from the main blog. Most of the entries from that side are from 2003-2005 (I'm currently halfway through April 2003) so none of that stuff is going to show up as new on the RSS feeds. Because I'm moving the entries over using MT's Asset management system, the photos are showing up under the Photo widget to the right of where my normal entry text goes.

Once I'm all caught up on the archives, things should start getting somewhat back to normal around here, whatever that is.

For some reason, whenever I do a major release upgrade on Movable Type, I have problems with the templates and stylesheets. I do the upgrade, and all of the design elements of the site stay the way they were so when I try to use a new “Style” it breaks.

To fix it, I had to create a test blog so MT4 will create a fresh set of templates and then copy them over to the old blog.

I’m going to stick with the new column layout, I think. Over the next few days I’m going to try to get the content of the right-side bars set. Once that’s done, I’ll get into some of the new things in MT4 (Assets? Finally.) and maybe do a little tweaking. In between, I have a couple of things to post related to vacation.

Looks like ecto isn't working with my upgraded MT install. Nice. At least the posting interface is improved.

Going to be a little weird while I figure stuff out.

I turned trackbacks off.

I like trackbacks. It's an interesting way of giving feedback while keeping your writing on your own site.

The problem is that there's too many bottom feeders spamming trackbacks for them to be useful.

Maybe someday they'll come back, but not likely.

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