It's been a very long time since I blogged about anything to do with "music" so I thought I would jump back in with a quick review of Jason Mraz's new CD/DVD "A Beautiful Mess - Live on Earth". This CD/DVD was recorded back in August 2009 in Chicago on the lake front and is truly one of his best performances. Gayle and I have been following Jason since we met him and Toca Rivera at a Dave Matthews Band concert at the Gorge Amphitheater back in 2004. In fact we snapped a not so good picture with Toca which you can see here.

For Valentines Day Gayle gave me the DVD which I have been trying to find locally for some time now.

The CD consists of the following Mraz songs:

• Intro
• Sunshine Song
• Traveler/Make it Mine
• Anything You Want
• Coyotes
• Live High
• Only Human
• The Remedy
• The Dynamo of Volition
• A Beautiful Mess
• I'm Yours
• Lucky
• Copchase
• All Night Long
• Butterfly
• The Boy's Gone

• Intro
• Sunshine Song
• Traveler/Make it Mine
• Anything You Want
• Coyotes
• Live High
• Only Human
• The Remedy
• The Dynamo of Volition
• A Beautiful Mess
• I'm Yours
• Lucky
• Copchase
• All Night Long
• Fall Through Glass
• Butterfly
• The Boy's Gone
• Un Beau Désordre
• We Sing. We Dance. We Make Videos

For all those unable to attend IBM Lotusphere 2010 in Orlando, PAVONE AG and Elguji Software offer the possibility to learn about IBM's news and trends in Portland, Oregon. We are inviting you to our Lotusphere Comes to You event on March 16, 2010.

A few hours of your time will allow you to catch up with the most important news from Lotusphere® 2010. Will also give you a summary of current IBM trends for 2010.

We will start at 8:30 AM and end at 1 PM, allowing you to return to work in the afternoon. The event will take place in downtown Portland. Additional information about the location and our agenda will be announced in February 2010. Please use our online LCTY Portland form to register for our Lotusphere Comes To You event. We are looking forward to seeing you at our event.

Make sure to register early, as the number of participants is limited to 25 people.

If you have any additional questions, please contact: Gayle Elgort.


Monday, February 15th, 2010 | Comments (0) | Google it!

This just in...

Dear Bruce,

At salesforce.com, seamless upgrades are a top priority, and we strive to provide open communication whenever we make changes that may impact our customers. You are receiving this email because we have identified you as system administrator for a Salesforce.com organization that will be impacted by an upcoming change to our support policy for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (IE6).  We have identified that one or more users in your organization logged into salesforce.com using IE6 between September 2009 and December 2009.

What is the change?

With the Spring '10 release, salesforce.com will begin delivering features that will not be supported for use with IE6, including our new user interface theme.  In subsequent releases throughout 2010, we may release additional features and UI enhancements that will also not be supported on IE6.  This is all in preparation for a full de-support of IE6, which is tentatively planned for end of calendar year 2010.

Why is salesforce.com doing this?

There are several reasons we are ending support for IE6:

• IE6 is less secure.  Multiple security vulnerabilities in IE6 have been exploited over the years.  The most recent attacks against Google, Yahoo, and other companies specifically targeted vulnerabilities easily accessible in IE6 but much more difficult to exploit in IE7 and IE8—leading the Microsoft Security Response Center to recommend that users of IE6 upgrade to a newer version of Internet Explorer.
• IE6 is slow.  Of all of our supported browsers, IE6 provides the slowest and least rewarding user experience for our customers.
• IE6 is a “last generation” browser.  IE6 was first released in August 2001.  As an obsolete, non-standard platform, IE6 is a difficult browser on which to develop and support the rich internet applications our customers have come to expect.

What action do I need to take?

You and your company's IT administrators should plan and/or upgrade your users to IE7, IE8, or another supported browser by the end of calendar year 2010

What will happen if I take no action?

Your organization can continue to use IE6 in the Spring '10 release. However, beginning with the Spring '10 release, salesforce.com will make available several new opt-in features that are not supported on IE6.  Your organization has the option of leaving these features inactive until you have upgraded to a supported browser.

How can I get more information?

Please contact salesforce.com Customer Support with any questions you may have.

The IBM web page with the complete list of 2010 Lotus Award winners is now available. Congratulations to the winners and finalists.

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/awards2010"

I also was sent a nice PDF to share with customers and prospects.


Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Just in case you missed some of these Taking Notes and 1352 Report shows:

Taking Notes

The Lotus Technical Information and Education Community with IBM's Joyce Davis and Amanda Bauman

Lotusphere 2010 Monday/Tuesday Coverage

Lotusphere 2010 Sunday Coverage

Lotusphere 2010 Get Ready with Tom Duff and Andy Donaldson

IBM's Smart Work Initiative with Antony Satyadas and Bill Malchisky Jr.

SharePoint Integrator 2.5 with Mainsoft's Yaacov Cohen

The 1352 Report

There’s an app store for your teleprompter that looks like an iPad

Make Roomba for your new gadgets

A Palm Pre spoilded the Halloween risotto

Lotus Knows that there are iPhone crickets in the Foundations


Monday, February 8th, 2010 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Photoshoping by Steve McDonagh


Monday, February 8th, 2010 | Comments (1) | Google it!

In this video you will see John Head from PSC, Darren Duke from STS, Scott Hooks from Lotus911, Paul Mooney and Harry Dunn from Bluewave, Mike Ostrowski from Ascendant and myself from Elguji,

More videos >


Sunday, February 7th, 2010 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Today I received an email from my good friend and colleague Jack Dausman who suggested that I read and pass on the following. The first is a book by Jono Bacon who manages one of the most visible open source organizations Ubuntu. The book is available as a free download and is titled "The Art of Community".

When I started work on The Art of Community I was really keen that it should be a body of work that all communities have access to. My passion behind the book was to provide a solid guide to building, energizing and enabling pro-active, productive and enjoyable communities. I wanted to write a book that covered the major areas of community leadership, distilling a set of best practices and experiences, and illustrated by countless stories, anecdotes and tales.

During the Closing General Session at Lotupshere 2010 this awesome video by DJ Steven Porter was shown. Look for Nathan, Mikkel, Devin and many other people:




Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 | Comments (1) | Google it!

On Tuesday at 10 AM I will be speaking about Domino Designer 8.5.1 and XPages in the Application Development Mini Keynote on the "main stage" as Ed says. Hope to see you there and I hope you enjoy my part of the presenation which includes a few slides and a product demonstration. Please also visit the Elguji Software crew (Gayle, Matt, Ben, Julian and Mark) at booth no. 622 in the Product Showcase. Also, please feel free to stop me and say hello. All requests for "hey Bruce buy me a beer" will be happily ack'd.

Please also keep an eye out for a ton of Taking Notes podcasts over the next week. If you want to participate in one of the podcasts at Lotusphere shoot me an email, DM, IM etc.

Safe travels and see y'all soon.


Thursday, January 14th, 2010 | Comments (1) | Google it!

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