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Wednesday, June 30th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

"Sun is actually losing control of the Java franchise," said Anne Thomas Manes, an analyst at the Burton Group and former Sun executive. "If Sun were smart, they'd see the writing on the wall--that they can't maintain exclusive control of Java and that ...

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Monday, June 28th, 2004 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Six months ago today we lost our little angel Danielle. Life just hasn't been the same without you. I frequently spend time in your room playing with your toys and looking at all the pictures and movies of you and your sister Alyssa. Danielle we ...

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Saturday, June 26th, 2004 | Comments (6) | Google it!

What a week it has been. At work I have been doing more and more SQL Server work, working on a new wireless network, working on a procedure to perform over the wire backups of laptops to our tape library, working with PHP and Apache more and more in addition ...

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Friday, June 25th, 2004 | Comments (9) | Google it!

If you have add experience installing and setting up Wordpress please drop me a line. Update Note to self: Make sure you have both PHP and PHP3 defined in your Apache httpd.conf file. Thanks Martin for your ...

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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

My co-worker Paul found this paper on the Google Cluster Architecture published by the IEEE Computer Society. I printed it out for my evening ...

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Monday, June 21st, 2004 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Game over. No more ...

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Friday, June 18th, 2004 | Comments (15) | Google it!

Do have a blog that is not listed in my Blog Roll? If you do I would be interested in hearing about it. It not be a Notes/Domino blog ...

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Thursday, June 17th, 2004 | Comments (19) | Google it!

It seems that my list of "only in the Pacific Northwest" keeps growing. This just in from ABC News in Toledo ...

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Thursday, June 17th, 2004 | Comments (1) | Google it!

If you enjoy the awesome guitar work of John Petrucci and the keyboard mastery of Jordan Rudess both of Dream Theater you will enjoy this ...

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Thursday, June 17th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Semaphoria IM'ed me the scoop on the cycling salmon I blogged about yesterday. Read the story on Oregon ...

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Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

by Michael Bourak Since Domino 6.5, a Domino pool manager is available for free to use with the Domino JSP taglib. It provides a real performance boost by "removing" the connection time to the Domino server for each JSP page. It's even more efficient in ...

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Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 | Comments (3) | Google it!

Before moving to the Portland metro area back in 1994 I always had visions of Oregon being a "clean" state. One where the environment was looked out for and the rivers and forests were treated with respect. Not the case. The longer I live out here the more ...

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Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 | Comments (1) | Google it!

As some of you know I am embarking on a new initiative along the lines of OpenNTF called LotusInsider (more on LotusInsider in the near future). While talking to some of you about it over the last couple of days many of you indicated that in order for this ...

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Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 | Comments (8) | Google it!

A couple of weeks ago I upgraded a Sametime server to 6.5.1. The installation was easy and the server has been running great. However, I finally got asked why the chat logging database didn't have any new chat transcripts in it. Doh! After some chats ...

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Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 | Comments (8) | Google it!

On Sunday evening Gayle, Gary and Tracy and I went out for some a nice Italian dinner in Portland. After dinner we headed up to the Portland Rose Gardens. On our way to the gardens we saw a somebody dressed up in salmon costume riding a bicycle. This was ...

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Tuesday, June 15th, 2004 | Comments (3) | Google it!

I haven't seen or heard from Declan in weeks, maybe months. Declan where are ...

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Monday, June 14th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Guru invited me to sign-up for Google's GMail so I did. More on GMail after some initial ...

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Sunday, June 13th, 2004 | Comments (18) | Google it!

I have been doing a fair amount of development with Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 2004 lately and PHP lately on the PC platform. Well, I thought it was time to try out Dreamweaver on my iMac. The first thing I did was de-activated Dreamwever on the PC. I ...

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Sunday, June 13th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Looks like the crooks over at Maysoft/InsideDomino posted an OpenNTF article I wrote on their site without my permission. These guys are scum. I am not going to even link to the site in order not to give them any traffic. For those of you who know the guy ...

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Read this article on KATU.com. I hope he doesn't wear socks and ...

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Friday, June 11th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Domino Web Access 6.5.2 now has OpenNTF's Reply/Forward indicators. This option needs to be turned on via the database properties. Notes 6.5.2 is also supported on Mac OS 10.3. Also, Domino is now supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, and SuSE Linux ...

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Thursday, June 10th, 2004 | Comments (4) | Google it!

Apple's iPhoto 4 is a great application for managing your digital photographs. All of your photos get placed into a "photo library". You can then create "photo albums" and place photos from the photo library into them. While this makes organizing photos ...

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Wednesday, June 9th, 2004 | Comments (0) | Google it!

Check out a clip from the forthcoming Dave Matthews Band "The Gorge" CD/DVD. Carter Beauford ...

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Tuesday, June 8th, 2004 | Comments (2) | Google it!

Release 1.4 adds Notes 7's "Clean Calendar" functionality. Download it ...

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Tuesday, June 8th, 2004 | Comments (0) | Google it!

This version of domBulletin adds: LDAP Support via directory assistance (correctly gets user common name) New Languages (Brazilian, Spanish, Italian) Refined Notes and Web UI Many bug fixes and performance tweaks File attachment in ...

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Tuesday, June 8th, 2004 | Comments (1) | Google it!

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Tuesday, June 8th, 2004 | Comments (7) | Google it!

Today is my moms birthday. I think she turns 28 today. ...

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Friday, June 4th, 2004 | Comments (6) | Google it!

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Friday, June 4th, 2004 | Comments (10) | Google it!

Can you see it? It's "on" (and it's pretty ...

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Friday, June 4th, 2004 | Comments (1) | Google it!

Currently Lotus Sametime Instant Team Messenger and Lotus QuickPlace Team Workplace are at version 6.5.1. The current versions do not differ from their prior versions other than the fact that now all run on Domino 6.5.1. While these products are now part of ...

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Thursday, June 3rd, 2004 | Comments (7) | Google it!

This morning I had the pleasure of being shown a demo of the Metallect IQ Server product. IQ Server essentially gives you "visibility" into all of your enterprise application systems metadata (Siebel, Oracle, SQL Server, Notes/Domino, SAP, PeopleSoft etc.). ...

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Thursday, June 3rd, 2004 | Comments (1) | Google it!

I have been playing drums since the fourth grade and can honestly say I am a pretty well accomplished drummer. I can play jazz, rock, Latin, metal and many other types of music. There is however one area of my drumming that I severely need improvement with ...

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