News.com is reporting that IBM will be offering up to $20,000 to business partners who get Microsoft Exchange customers to switch to Lotus Notes and Domino. Dubbed "Migrate to the Penguin," the latest IBM incentive plan, to be announced later on ...

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Thursday, March 30th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Congratulations to Stephan Wissel on his recent move to IBM. I will be the LTPA .... The Lotus Technology and Productivity Advisor for IBM Asean. I will be based in Singapore covering Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. ...

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Thursday, March 30th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Apple has released a new version of the iPod Updater software (2006-3-23) which now has a volume limit setting. Download it now and put it on your kids iPods as well as ...

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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

I work with sales, marketing and engineering people who could benefit from the power of RSS and RSS readers. After an informal poll I concluded that giving a thirty minute lunchtime seminar on RSS could be extremely beneficial. After I sent out the ...

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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006 | Comments (6) | Google it!

OpenNTF has been awarded the 2006 Lotus Advisor Editors' Choice Award in the category of Application Development ...

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Monday, March 27th, 2006 | Comments (9) | Google it!

While my IT shop is a "Microsoft shop" we do have several Notes and Domino applications that help run the business. These include QuickPlace, Sametime, Help Desk, SAP data pump and several others. Each of these applications pretty much ran on their own ...

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Friday, March 24th, 2006 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Download it from the iTunes Music Store or get it here. Technorati: podcast Lotus Notes ...

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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Seems that one of my friends has a bit too much free time on his hands. With the help of iLife's iMovie he stitched an old clip of an interview I did at Lotusphere some years back into a Novell commercial. [Via ...

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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Do you have any experience with third party applications to provide Japanese character support to Blackberry's? I have found several companies that sell a service to perform the translation on the fly but they don't seem to be that "elegant". Inquiring minds ...

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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

I will be speaking at the Seattle and Portland "Lotusphere Comes to You" events on April 5th and 6th. I will be delivering Best Practices - 105 "How OpenNTF Open Source Solutions Can Save You Time, Money and Your Hair" session which I gave at Lotusphere 2006 ...

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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Last week BruceElgort.com was under comment spam attack. I was receiving over 2,500 comment spams a day. Thanks to the handy work of Vince Schuurman I believe I have this problem temporarily under control. This reminds me that I still need to upgrade the ...

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Monday, March 13th, 2006 | Comments (6) | Google it!

Last night at the end of the DC Notes Users Group Jack Dausman presented me with a gift from the user group. What was it you ask? Look at this picture: An official "Yellow is the new black" tie - Isn't it great! We had 17 people at the meeting last ...

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Friday, March 10th, 2006 | Comments (7) | Google it!

If you are like me and wish you had Mindjet's MindManager for the Mac then get your butt over here and sign up for their Mac beta program. The beta program begins at the end of March. Now there is only one program left on my list that I need that doesn't ...

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Wednesday, March 8th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

If you are interested in having somebody from OpenNTF speak at your next event please drop me a note. [Photoshop-ing by Kelly] Technorati: OpenNTF Lotus Notes ...

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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Consider yourself warned. [Thanks ...

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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

The company Gayle works for is going to be running commericals on the ROCKETBOOM video blog starting on Monday, March 13, 2006. Yeah for cash! Technorati: rocketboom video blog ...

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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Iron Eagle Motorcycle is the place to find all the best deals on parts and accessories for your Harley or Metric cruiser. They have everything any Harley enthusiast would need and some stuff you may not need but just want. Check out their large on-line ...

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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Gayle and I just plopped a pilates tape into the old VCR and followed along with the pilates lady. Have you ever tried to do them? Holy moly my arms are shaking as I am typing this blog entry. My abs do feel great and now it's time to drink a whole bunch of ...

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Monday, March 6th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

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Sunday, March 5th, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Start your engines and go download Episode 16 of the Taking Notes podcast where we interview IBM's Ed Brill. You can also listen to Michael Sampson of Shared Spaces, Jess Stratton and John "Greyhawk" Roling. Technorati: podcast Lotus Notes ...

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Saturday, March 4th, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Check out this video of Tony Royster Jr. who is one incredible ...

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Friday, March 3rd, 2006 | Comments (4) | Google it!

According to CNN RIM and NTP have settled their long running lawsuit. RIM will pay NTP 621 million. Yowsa - sounds like my divorce settlement :-). Gayle was hoping that this suit would hopefully end my BlackBerry addiction. Umm sorry ...

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Friday, March 3rd, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Appleinsider is reporting that Apple has no intentions of making a version of the Mac Mini with digital video recording capabilities: Adding video recording functionality would have made the Mac mini too complicated, Schiller told the publication. "We're ...

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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

I know I am a small fish in the technology blogosphere but please feel free to add me to your Technorati Favorites. I have also added a link on the sidebar as well. Here is a list of the current Top 100 Favorite-d blogs. Technorati: Technorati favorite ...

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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!

It appears that some of you didn't know that OpenNTF started a blog back in December. Please add it your blogrolls and RSS readers. URL: http://blog.openntf.org RSS: ...

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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Chris gave a presentation at the recent TeamStudio seminar in NYC entitled "Best Management Practices for Lotus Notes". Read about his trip here as well as downloading his slide set. I had the opportunity to meet Chris in October 2005 at the Las Vegas ...

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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

I guess Show-n-Tell Thursdays and the additional sense of community it has created has made Ben Rose write this blog entry titled "Show and Tell Thursday - Credit Whore". Ben - we have only just begun and while you do make some valid points all I can say is ...

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Volker is suggesting that IBM build a free (unmanaged) version of the Workplace client. I am not talking about the Eclipse RCP which is available to anybody to build great applications with. What I am talking about is a real client, that everybody could ...

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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Jeff Crossett has a series of blog entires entitled ".NET Development for Domino ...

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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006 | Comments (2) | Google it!