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term="theft"/><category term="tiles"/><category term="time"/><category term="touch"/><category term="trends"/><category term="tripod"/><category term="w500"/><category term="wireless speakers"/><title type='text'>Ports Thoughts</title><subtitle type='html'>Every now and then I get inspired and it would be remiss of me not to share my inspirations with the world. I work for IBM Lotus Software as a Technology Advocate but don&#39;t let that worry you. For each geeky entry there are several about cats and babies.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default?alt=atom'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default?alt=atom&amp;start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>293</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-4301561920874107442</id><published>2014-01-19T15:30:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2014-01-19T15:30:23.821+00:00</updated><title type='text'>Windows password fail: sUpercalifragilisticeXpialidocious23ballmer is not complex enough</title><content type='html'>Like most modern system that require authentication, Microsoft Windows has a password complexity setting that prevents users picking ludicrously weak passwords like &quot;12345&quot; or their own name. Typically an administrator can create a policy to dictate the strength of password required depending on the sensitivity of the environment and the nature of the data that the device contains. This can normally be summed up in a few brief rules - for example, must be minimum 8 characters, must contain both alphabetic and numeric characters. Sometimes they may require upper and lower case characters or even &quot;special characters&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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  3. Earlier today I was changing a few password that had expired and thoughtlessly entered a new password of mrports727somethingelse (not the real password!). Most systems accepted this including Windows 7 however, one of my other systems rejected it because it contained my username &#39;mrports&#39;. &quot;Fair enough&quot;, I thought. Schoolboy error.&lt;br /&gt;
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  5. So I went back to all the other accounts and changed them to something more secure - but when it came to Windows it refused to change my password stating that it was not complex enough. Strange. I have been using Windows for over 20 years so have a pretty good idea what is required for passwords so tried a few variations. Still no good. I speculated that perhaps my employer may have changed the complexity requirements recently which was causing the problem? But even when I tried ludicrously complex passwords it would not accept them. To check that it was not a policy I created another account on my machine and changed it&#39;s password to one of the ones I was trying and it accepted it straight away. My final attempt at a password was &quot;sUpercalifragilisticeXpialidocious23ballmer&quot;. Windows also deemed this password too weak.&lt;br /&gt;
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  7. &amp;nbsp;I can only conclude (and this is pure speculation) that Windows was not objecting to my new password, but was in fact objecting to my previous password because it contained my username - even though it had accepted it. I attempted to change my password from another Admin account but it would not allow this either, again stating the password was not complex enough.&lt;br /&gt;
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  9. &amp;nbsp;If you find yourself in this situation then there is a way round it. Go into Manage your computers (Start Menu, right click on Computer and Manage), select Users and Group. Right click on the appropriate user and select &quot;Set Password&quot;. This will allow you to reset that password and everything returns to normal.
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  27. If anyone has a better explanation of that was happening I would be interested to hear it, but for now I will put this down to an interesting Windows quirk.
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  33. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/4301561920874107442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=4301561920874107442' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/4301561920874107442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/4301561920874107442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2014/01/windows-password-fail.html' title='Windows password fail: sUpercalifragilisticeXpialidocious23ballmer is not complex enough'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRLLY7KoWRejsbEYwMw9TqbEmjbFf-Nq9_GZjco-eDH9rGzoOf9KlA4WeotVBJKHuw5xlJtEdT2ha67qS-mofAZbmrrTQxSeUGdkRGrX97UGkFF4g6yrNjsDybAFvJMukIJi88/s72-c/manage.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-7871995580277525962</id><published>2012-11-14T10:12:00.001+00:00</published><updated>2012-11-14T10:12:36.535+00:00</updated><title type='text'>New Icons for IBM Notes 9</title><content type='html'>Yesterday &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibm-notesdomino-9-social-edition-public-beta-planned-for-december-14&quot;&gt;IBM announced&lt;/a&gt; the next major release of Notes and Domino will be called &quot;Social Edition&quot; reflecting the fact that Notes and Domino are very much a part of IBM&#39;s social business strategy along with other products such as IBM Connections and IBM Sametime.&lt;br /&gt;
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  35. Through the support for industry standards such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial&quot;&gt;OpenSocial&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth&quot;&gt;OAuth&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Assertion_Markup_Language&quot;&gt;SAML&lt;/a&gt; it also opens up a whole new world of social integration with other social networking systems and more importantly line of business applications through embedded experiences and activity streams. &lt;br /&gt;
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  37. Now that Notes 9 Social Edition is announced and just about to go into public beta I though I would share the new icons&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: xx-small;&quot;&gt; (still subject to change of course)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  39. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbFbGqMxmTd6kKqR_3DSfnaEOQ_Rac9hPbAcgC-l_RtFEPEjyI1zlv4XohnPAd_dcEuVBa6XL9yDjqbH9eEgCJfM-A-bW-NwScxdxoFkJ-CLIxsJOBBoFEAEQV9MfEg-LxqJLi/s1600/icons.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbFbGqMxmTd6kKqR_3DSfnaEOQ_Rac9hPbAcgC-l_RtFEPEjyI1zlv4XohnPAd_dcEuVBa6XL9yDjqbH9eEgCJfM-A-bW-NwScxdxoFkJ-CLIxsJOBBoFEAEQV9MfEg-LxqJLi/s1600/icons.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  40. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/7871995580277525962/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=7871995580277525962' title='28 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/7871995580277525962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/7871995580277525962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2012/11/new-icons-for-ibm-notes-9.html' title='New Icons for IBM Notes 9'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbFbGqMxmTd6kKqR_3DSfnaEOQ_Rac9hPbAcgC-l_RtFEPEjyI1zlv4XohnPAd_dcEuVBa6XL9yDjqbH9eEgCJfM-A-bW-NwScxdxoFkJ-CLIxsJOBBoFEAEQV9MfEg-LxqJLi/s72-c/icons.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-256120280311340100</id><published>2012-02-18T10:21:00.006+00:00</published><updated>2012-02-18T11:58:38.092+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Microsoft Windows Logo"/><title type='text'>Windows 8 Logo</title><content type='html'>Over on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/02/17/redesigning-the-windows-logo.aspx&quot;&gt;Microsoft Windows Team blog&lt;/a&gt; they have been discussing the new design of the Logo for Windows 8 and the history of the Windows logos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1A6kkJ21u78PtYHGG9R2QAPNG7Oaan9toHK4WW06xYCaoSb5M9cYJ74OpCwPJ5Wq6p3kD_bONXTJ8_LLkgnRL53kHU4jVBzynMeM7f-xojNhuTONT4tTve_vJaRNkE6ABEdxs/s1600/windows8.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1A6kkJ21u78PtYHGG9R2QAPNG7Oaan9toHK4WW06xYCaoSb5M9cYJ74OpCwPJ5Wq6p3kD_bONXTJ8_LLkgnRL53kHU4jVBzynMeM7f-xojNhuTONT4tTve_vJaRNkE6ABEdxs/s400/windows8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710419278409366546&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I always find it &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_0&quot;&gt;fascinating&lt;/span&gt; how logo&#39;s evolve over time (for example &lt;a href=&quot;http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/logo/logo_5.html&quot;&gt;IBM&lt;/a&gt;) and it is especially interesting when the designers explain what they had in mind. Apparently one of the key observations was from a designer from a top agency who observed “&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;”. You&#39;ve got to love designers. If something is &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_1&quot;&gt;stylised&lt;/span&gt; they say it should be more &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_2&quot;&gt;literal&lt;/span&gt;. If something is &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_3&quot;&gt;literal&lt;/span&gt; they say it is too obvious. They get paid either way.&lt;br /&gt;I think it is pretty clear that in reality the old Windows logo reflected the rich &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_4&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_0&quot;&gt;Aero&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; style interface while the new one reflects the starker more angular Metro interface introduced in Windows Phone 7.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, given that it appears that Windows 8 is going to have both Metro and &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_5&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_1&quot;&gt;Aero&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, perhaps this might have been more appropriate?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh870HkK0jXX1pGpt16nPQZteQwr_0IqkW6harC_o-mi4vKW5Lsev6Nw-8FyesfvOOrIndKQ9ZZG1EiaxB03doDWjqsGCR2Cl_Iobvk2MxVxR_E12nzyHI7KVAqbIAociFvMABO/s1600/WinHybrid.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh870HkK0jXX1pGpt16nPQZteQwr_0IqkW6harC_o-mi4vKW5Lsev6Nw-8FyesfvOOrIndKQ9ZZG1EiaxB03doDWjqsGCR2Cl_Iobvk2MxVxR_E12nzyHI7KVAqbIAociFvMABO/s400/WinHybrid.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710443250925568946&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/256120280311340100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=256120280311340100' title='35 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/256120280311340100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/256120280311340100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2012/02/windows-8-logo.html' title='Windows 8 Logo'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1A6kkJ21u78PtYHGG9R2QAPNG7Oaan9toHK4WW06xYCaoSb5M9cYJ74OpCwPJ5Wq6p3kD_bONXTJ8_LLkgnRL53kHU4jVBzynMeM7f-xojNhuTONT4tTve_vJaRNkE6ABEdxs/s72-c/windows8.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>35</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-556251478035094770</id><published>2011-09-19T19:40:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-09-19T19:41:51.110+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="#IBMSocialBiz"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Community"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Experts"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ICS"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lotus"/><title type='text'>IBM is reaching out to the Lotus Community - Meet the Experts...</title><content type='html'>There are many IBMers in the IBM Collaboration Solutions team who love to help out our customers, partners and the Lotus community. IBM Collaboration Solutions (or ICS) includes a wide ranging portfolio of products covering Web Experience (Portal), Collaboration, Social Business and Unified Communications. For those of you who, like myself, have a fondness for the Lotus brand it is important to understand that ICS is a superset that still includes Lotus branded products, but ICS goes beyond the traditional Lotus heartland as we integrate more and more IBM technology such as analytics and sentiment tracking into the core stack and augment it with software from our middleware cousins in Tivoli, IM and Websphere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of the ICS team keep up with the Lotus Community through tools like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and of course &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.planetlotus.org/&quot;&gt;PlanetLotus.org&lt;/a&gt;. Sometimes watching, sometimes joining in. We also like to attend conferences and Lotus User Groups as well as participate in Podcasts, Tweetups and LotusBeers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, we can always do more to make ourselves available to the community so here in the UK we have started adding descriptions and contact details of more social and collaboration experts to help people find and connect to us. You can find these profiles in the &quot;Meet the Experts&quot; area on a whole bunch of web pages such as these...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www-01.ibm.com/software/uk/&quot;&gt;http://www-01.ibm.com/software/uk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www-01.ibm.com/software/uk/itsolutions/collaboration-solutions/&quot;&gt;http://www-01.ibm.com/software/uk/itsolutions/collaboration-solutions/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www-01.ibm.com/software/uk/lotus/&quot;&gt;http://www-01.ibm.com/software/uk/lotus/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQIABjmWKGRyXCtuBYqvxzxkcWmX4XLk7hMAMAXYXqLwVrBTT6yzVnNa4yImEcT2wBI2LBJyAwMsDIjwhhzy1wuVzQwG_PLBwCiICeTQrRnzpDEj5gVrLaiaKL0XnlEwT1RjiX/s1600/experts.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQIABjmWKGRyXCtuBYqvxzxkcWmX4XLk7hMAMAXYXqLwVrBTT6yzVnNa4yImEcT2wBI2LBJyAwMsDIjwhhzy1wuVzQwG_PLBwCiICeTQrRnzpDEj5gVrLaiaKL0XnlEwT1RjiX/s400/experts.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653026513860859634&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you click the &quot;Options to Connect&quot; it will bring up a full profile with links to our profiles on various social sites. So don&#39;t be a stranger, drop by and say &quot;Hi&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6XJ8f2GIaNFoy9G8mheWuWAOQHO2dVb9pi34oeyrzjJApMKLIamLIPAkK3D3VCSuS_ybVCu3XCMLJszh-mqsPFXdpkuA8Alh6VKEC3hnv8pBmWQr8vQXUNXtiBg4d7ODLdhHj/s1600/ports.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6XJ8f2GIaNFoy9G8mheWuWAOQHO2dVb9pi34oeyrzjJApMKLIamLIPAkK3D3VCSuS_ybVCu3XCMLJszh-mqsPFXdpkuA8Alh6VKEC3hnv8pBmWQr8vQXUNXtiBg4d7ODLdhHj/s400/ports.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653026506776502114&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/556251478035094770/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=556251478035094770' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/556251478035094770'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/556251478035094770'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2011/09/ibm-is-reaching-out-to-lotus-community_19.html' title='IBM is reaching out to the Lotus Community - Meet the Experts...'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQIABjmWKGRyXCtuBYqvxzxkcWmX4XLk7hMAMAXYXqLwVrBTT6yzVnNa4yImEcT2wBI2LBJyAwMsDIjwhhzy1wuVzQwG_PLBwCiICeTQrRnzpDEj5gVrLaiaKL0XnlEwT1RjiX/s72-c/experts.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-38156025656783190</id><published>2011-09-16T19:03:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2011-09-19T15:29:39.535+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="#IBMSocialBiz"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Community"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Experts"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ICS"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lotus"/><title type='text'>IBM is reaching out to the Lotus Community - Meet the Experts</title><content type='html'>There are many IBMers in the IBM Collaboration Solutions team who love to help out our customers, partners and the Lotus community. IBM Collaboration Solutions (or ICS) includes a wide ranging portfolio of products covering Web Experience (Portal), Collaboration, Social Business and Unified Communications. For those of you who, like myself, have a fondness for the Lotus brand it is important to understand that ICS is a superset that still includes Lotus branded products, but ICS goes beyond the traditional Lotus heartland as we integrate more and more IBM technology such as analytics and sentiment tracking into the core stack and augment it with software from our middleware cousins in Tivoli, IM and Websphere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of the ICS team keep up with the Lotus Community through tools like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and of course &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.planetlotus.org/&quot;&gt;PlanetLotus.org&lt;/a&gt;. Sometimes watching, sometimes joining in. We also like to attend conferences and Lotus User Groups as well as participate in Podcasts, Tweetups and LotusBeers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, we can always do more to make ourselves available to the community so here in the UK we have started adding descriptions and contact details of more social and collaboration experts to help people find and connect to us. You can find these profiles in the &quot;Meet the Experts&quot; area on a whole bunch of web pages such as these...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www-01.ibm.com/software/uk/&quot;&gt;http://www-01.ibm.com/software/uk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www-01.ibm.com/software/uk/itsolutions/collaboration-solutions/&quot;&gt;http://www-01.ibm.com/software/uk/itsolutions/collaboration-solutions/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www-01.ibm.com/software/uk/lotus/&quot;&gt;http://www-01.ibm.com/software/uk/lotus/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQIABjmWKGRyXCtuBYqvxzxkcWmX4XLk7hMAMAXYXqLwVrBTT6yzVnNa4yImEcT2wBI2LBJyAwMsDIjwhhzy1wuVzQwG_PLBwCiICeTQrRnzpDEj5gVrLaiaKL0XnlEwT1RjiX/s1600/experts.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQIABjmWKGRyXCtuBYqvxzxkcWmX4XLk7hMAMAXYXqLwVrBTT6yzVnNa4yImEcT2wBI2LBJyAwMsDIjwhhzy1wuVzQwG_PLBwCiICeTQrRnzpDEj5gVrLaiaKL0XnlEwT1RjiX/s400/experts.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653026513860859634&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you click the &quot;Options to Connect&quot; it will bring up a full profile with links to our profiles on various social sites. So don&#39;t be a stranger, drop by and say &quot;Hi&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6XJ8f2GIaNFoy9G8mheWuWAOQHO2dVb9pi34oeyrzjJApMKLIamLIPAkK3D3VCSuS_ybVCu3XCMLJszh-mqsPFXdpkuA8Alh6VKEC3hnv8pBmWQr8vQXUNXtiBg4d7ODLdhHj/s1600/ports.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6XJ8f2GIaNFoy9G8mheWuWAOQHO2dVb9pi34oeyrzjJApMKLIamLIPAkK3D3VCSuS_ybVCu3XCMLJszh-mqsPFXdpkuA8Alh6VKEC3hnv8pBmWQr8vQXUNXtiBg4d7ODLdhHj/s400/ports.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653026506776502114&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/38156025656783190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=38156025656783190' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/38156025656783190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/38156025656783190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2011/09/ibm-is-reaching-out-to-lotus-community.html' title='IBM is reaching out to the Lotus Community - Meet the Experts'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQIABjmWKGRyXCtuBYqvxzxkcWmX4XLk7hMAMAXYXqLwVrBTT6yzVnNa4yImEcT2wBI2LBJyAwMsDIjwhhzy1wuVzQwG_PLBwCiICeTQrRnzpDEj5gVrLaiaKL0XnlEwT1RjiX/s72-c/experts.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-4700259587096160784</id><published>2011-05-07T02:36:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-05-07T02:40:01.310+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barney"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Boo"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cats"/><title type='text'>Cats with thumbs</title><content type='html'>I have two cats called Barney and Boo. This worries me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/h6CcxJQq1x8&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;560&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;349&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/4700259587096160784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=4700259587096160784' title='41 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/4700259587096160784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/4700259587096160784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2011/05/cats-with-thumbs.html' title='Cats with thumbs'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/h6CcxJQq1x8/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>41</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-1234813517691353112</id><published>2010-11-02T13:19:00.003+00:00</published><updated>2010-11-02T13:30:55.632+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cool"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lotus Notes"/><title type='text'>It&#39;s Official. Lotus Notes is Cool</title><content type='html'>My frolleague &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dadams.co.uk/&quot;&gt;Darren Adams&lt;/a&gt; has created a web site pointing out the great features and general awesomeness of Lotus Notes. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.notesiscool.com/&quot;&gt;Notes is Cool&lt;/a&gt;. Well done sir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.notesiscool.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgINVKCqtV5KcNbJHNotkqeiPjSvLQllY_aEMleca0ROHXICz9YxsnWQ_EMwjoM1sD2cpYmaAL4GjuZ-F498pmvv5yaTpbWC3e-AdkCkdNuecb0T6q-wxkDNeORIERrtPW2YsTH/s1600/nic.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 229px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgINVKCqtV5KcNbJHNotkqeiPjSvLQllY_aEMleca0ROHXICz9YxsnWQ_EMwjoM1sD2cpYmaAL4GjuZ-F498pmvv5yaTpbWC3e-AdkCkdNuecb0T6q-wxkDNeORIERrtPW2YsTH/s400/nic.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534942779141567682&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/1234813517691353112/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=1234813517691353112' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/1234813517691353112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/1234813517691353112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/11/its-official-lotus-notes-is-cool.html' title='It&#39;s Official. Lotus Notes is Cool'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgINVKCqtV5KcNbJHNotkqeiPjSvLQllY_aEMleca0ROHXICz9YxsnWQ_EMwjoM1sD2cpYmaAL4GjuZ-F498pmvv5yaTpbWC3e-AdkCkdNuecb0T6q-wxkDNeORIERrtPW2YsTH/s72-c/nic.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-9163315298362387452</id><published>2010-08-11T00:02:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-08-11T00:41:04.093+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="domino"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lotus"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="portal partnership"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="sso"/><title type='text'>No more passwords for Domino applications</title><content type='html'>A  number of times I have heard customers commenting that they can sign into Windows and access &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_0&quot;&gt;everything&lt;/span&gt; that they need to do their job - except for Lotus stuff - where they have to enter their &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_1&quot;&gt;username&lt;/span&gt; and password again. This may have been true in the past, but as you can see from this demonstration created by my &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_2&quot;&gt;frolleague&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.linkedin.com/in/steveseymour&quot;&gt;Steve Seymour&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.portalpartnership.com/wps/wcm/connect/tpp/PP/Our+home/&quot;&gt;The Portal Partnership&lt;/a&gt; this is no longer the case. A users credentials can be passed from their Windows &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_3&quot;&gt;login&lt;/span&gt; to Domino via &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_4&quot;&gt;SPNEGO&lt;/span&gt; which will in turn create an &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_5&quot;&gt;LTPA&lt;/span&gt; token on the Domino/&lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_6&quot;&gt;Websphere&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_7&quot;&gt;infrastructure&lt;/span&gt; that will allow access to all those services without having to authenticate again. So in this video you see a user log into Windows and then access a personalised Domino welcome page, &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_8&quot;&gt;iNotes&lt;/span&gt; (web mail), Lotus &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_9&quot;&gt;Quickr&lt;/span&gt; (team places), Lotus &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_10&quot;&gt;Sametime&lt;/span&gt; (real time collaboration), Lotus Connections (professional social networking) and &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_11&quot;&gt;Websphere&lt;/span&gt; Portal (&lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_12&quot;&gt;Enterprise&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_13&quot;&gt;integration&lt;/span&gt;) without having to &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_14&quot;&gt;authenticate&lt;/span&gt;. Just to be clear - this is not smoke and mirrors - this is all out of the box functionality. Have a look - it only takes 80 seconds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/P_qyg68hvQU&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/P_qyg68hvQU&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are wondering how Lotus Notes fits into this, then then you should check out the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.help.domino.admin.doc/DOC/H_USING_NOTES_SINGLE_LOGON_OVER.html&quot;&gt;Lotus Notes Single &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_15&quot;&gt;Logon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; capability built into Notes 8.5 which means that once you have logged into Windows you can launch Notes without having to log in again*. &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_16&quot;&gt;Seemless&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if you hear folks saying that other competing technologies are &quot;more integrated&quot; because they don&#39;t need to &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_17&quot;&gt;reauthentiate&lt;/span&gt;, show them Steve&#39;s video.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;*Single &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_18&quot;&gt;logon&lt;/span&gt; for roaming users is being evaluated for a future release&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/9163315298362387452/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=9163315298362387452' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/9163315298362387452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/9163315298362387452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/08/no-more-passwords-for-domino.html' title='No more passwords for Domino applications'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-4833119119868907268</id><published>2010-06-28T19:46:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-06-28T20:43:12.295+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="error"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="lenovo"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lotus"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Thinkpad"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="w500"/><title type='text'>Not what you want to see on a 6 week old Thinkpad</title><content type='html'>I was chuffed to bits to get my new Lenovo W500 Thinkpad a month or so ago. I put Windows 7 64bit on it and with an Intel Duo Core T9400 processor, 8Gb of RAM and 500Gb 7200rpm disk I was looking forward to some awesome performance. And to start of that is exactly what I got. I installed all the newest version of the Lotus stuff, Notes 8.5.2 with embedded Sametime 8.5.1, Symphony 3, Domino 8.5.2, Quickr 8.5 etc. I also added some basics like Firefox and VLC Media Player. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After just a couple of days I had the machine pretty much ready to replace my old T61 as my main customer demonstration machine. Except for one thing. Every now and again the machine would seemingly just lock up with the hard disk light on permanently. Sometime it would recover and sometimes it would require a hard reboot. I took to starting Resource Monitor in Disk mode as soon as the machine has booted to see if I could catch the culprit. You might think that my immediate reaction would be to blame Windows 7, but that was the last thing I was thinking. Since most of the Lotus stack that I had installed were builds and betas rather than gold releases my first guess was that there was a bit of dodgy code in there causing the problem. But some basic troubleshooting showed that they were in the clear. The problem sometimes occurred when nothing &quot;unofficial&quot; was loaded. I could even reproduce it in safe mode.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There seemed to be no rhyme or reason to the hangs. Sometimes it would go hours or even days without an issue but I couldn&#39;t trust it to use in front of customers. It was very frustrating having this Ferrari of a machine but not being able to know when it would freak out. Many people point to the indexing and pre-fetching in Win7 as being possible causes but I have had no problems on my home PC which is Win7 32bit so I was sceptical that this was the cause. It also gradually became apparent that even though the disk light was permanently on there wasn&#39;t that much disk activity going on, but the disk queue length was shooting up to 50 or 100. This would imply that two processes or threads were squabbling over disk access - but I could find no evidence of what they were.  There was no fragmentation on the disk and CHKDSK was coming back clean.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then out of the blue yesterday this error started appearing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmUoPQa3xGv8MniVFNDQFRUrzJBVJoUdqR1k9gXvJlqYYOhVBM_hP0sprydsEtLRjNP3O1x8CAyWaU_3xbxXYvQkc7W-uSgpJEoGShbfiDgZKCnChj0d2G2jtRsxA-dMbIC5Cd/s1600/disk+error.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmUoPQa3xGv8MniVFNDQFRUrzJBVJoUdqR1k9gXvJlqYYOhVBM_hP0sprydsEtLRjNP3O1x8CAyWaU_3xbxXYvQkc7W-uSgpJEoGShbfiDgZKCnChj0d2G2jtRsxA-dMbIC5Cd/s400/disk+error.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487898608541014898&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it turns out that the problem was a failing disk drive. Not something I would expect on such a new machine. Hitachi doesn&#39;t publish a Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) for the Travelstar 7K500 but it just goes to show that MTBF does not mean how long a drive will last but rather the average. So be warned and never be complacent. Drives can fail at any time. So make sure that you have a good backup. Fortunately I backup my important data to multiple locations (Home Network, Backup Thinkpad) and my really important data (customer presentations) to Lotus Connections Files/Lotus Quickr Places. So it will be very straight forward to rebuild this machine when my replacement drive arrives.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/4833119119868907268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=4833119119868907268' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/4833119119868907268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/4833119119868907268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/06/not-what-you-want-to-see-on-6-week-old.html' title='Not what you want to see on a 6 week old Thinkpad'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmUoPQa3xGv8MniVFNDQFRUrzJBVJoUdqR1k9gXvJlqYYOhVBM_hP0sprydsEtLRjNP3O1x8CAyWaU_3xbxXYvQkc7W-uSgpJEoGShbfiDgZKCnChj0d2G2jtRsxA-dMbIC5Cd/s72-c/disk+error.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-1364232329446186812</id><published>2010-06-22T16:55:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-06-23T11:07:06.300+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lotus Notes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="sidebar"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Widget"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Wimbledon"/><title type='text'>Wimbledon Widget for Lotus Notes</title><content type='html'>As you may know IBM has for many years been providing the technology for the Wimbledon Tennis Championships (as well as many other sporting events). This includes the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/index.html&quot;&gt;Wimbledon web site&lt;/a&gt; which is awesome and there are now apps for both &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/interactive/mobile/index.html&quot;&gt;iPhone&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYUoDVObFWo&quot;&gt;Android&lt;/a&gt; to keep track of results. In an effort to help IBMers keep track of what is going on in the Championships while they are using their favorite collaboration application, IBM has deployed a Lotus Notes Widget called Wimbledon Sideline that allows everyone that is using Lotus Notes 8 and above to see what is going on in real time displayed in their sidebar. Very nice. (clicky for bigger).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1G1S86QjXWv4n7ah2OyqBgrOicA4iANB_v8iKXpTTZXSpBJQIuVdrJR07TWHE_8fDK2NE95JzRlLGXnxfm_DbU_f9UMqj7-Ae9RYvckzJjPbXvAbugYT6qxnVHHFkuq0lDrTw/s1600/wimbledon-lotus-notes-widget.PNG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1G1S86QjXWv4n7ah2OyqBgrOicA4iANB_v8iKXpTTZXSpBJQIuVdrJR07TWHE_8fDK2NE95JzRlLGXnxfm_DbU_f9UMqj7-Ae9RYvckzJjPbXvAbugYT6qxnVHHFkuq0lDrTw/s400/wimbledon-lotus-notes-widget.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485627613801757762&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update: Here is a link to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.notesdesignblog.com/NotesDesignBlog/NDBlog.nsf/dx/lotus-knows-you-need-this-wimbledon-sidebar-panel-for-your-notes-client.htm/$file/83139.xml&quot;&gt;Widget&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/1364232329446186812/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=1364232329446186812' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/1364232329446186812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/1364232329446186812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/06/wimbledon-widget-for-lotus-notes.html' title='Wimbledon Widget for Lotus Notes'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1G1S86QjXWv4n7ah2OyqBgrOicA4iANB_v8iKXpTTZXSpBJQIuVdrJR07TWHE_8fDK2NE95JzRlLGXnxfm_DbU_f9UMqj7-Ae9RYvckzJjPbXvAbugYT6qxnVHHFkuq0lDrTw/s72-c/wimbledon-lotus-notes-widget.PNG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-6820963530922801189</id><published>2010-05-18T00:53:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-18T00:58:17.560+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ATandT"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Installation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="software"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="windows 7"/><title type='text'>Informative Messages in Software</title><content type='html'>It is always important to let a user know what is going on during an installation. I particually appreciated this informative message whilst installing my VPN client on Windows 7.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuUXo20MIhLYunOM-dHMV93zXl9BtVsKKrPkaVI8M0IiS7wkQYj5v_81kCy74uMVmaYzWLnqiJWLPoKEOjE86iZm_s_EbHeBxLRjI0soRA4_uSIbXbZYX8dWYkif4Rx7SUnrMJ/s1600/Error+in+Install.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 305px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuUXo20MIhLYunOM-dHMV93zXl9BtVsKKrPkaVI8M0IiS7wkQYj5v_81kCy74uMVmaYzWLnqiJWLPoKEOjE86iZm_s_EbHeBxLRjI0soRA4_uSIbXbZYX8dWYkif4Rx7SUnrMJ/s400/Error+in+Install.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472391566648613890&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/6820963530922801189/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=6820963530922801189' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/6820963530922801189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/6820963530922801189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/05/informative-messages-in-software.html' title='Informative Messages in Software'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuUXo20MIhLYunOM-dHMV93zXl9BtVsKKrPkaVI8M0IiS7wkQYj5v_81kCy74uMVmaYzWLnqiJWLPoKEOjE86iZm_s_EbHeBxLRjI0soRA4_uSIbXbZYX8dWYkif4Rx7SUnrMJ/s72-c/Error+in+Install.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-3607457913244052414</id><published>2010-05-04T20:46:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-04T21:09:10.814+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Three Years in Six Minutes</title><content type='html'>This is a little film of my kid Lucy going from nought to three using 550 pictures of her face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/uDD9XKxeQio&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/uDD9XKxeQio&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think it is fair to say that she has quite a strong character which really comes out in this film especially later on. If your interested the excellent music is by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beta_Band&quot;&gt;The Beta Band&lt;/a&gt; and is called Dry the Rain.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/3607457913244052414/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=3607457913244052414' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/3607457913244052414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/3607457913244052414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/05/three-years-in-six-minutes.html' title='Three Years in Six Minutes'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-3048951204410904298</id><published>2010-03-21T21:40:00.007+00:00</published><updated>2010-03-21T23:29:01.290+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Android"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Galaxy Portal"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Samsung"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spica"/><title type='text'>Samsung Android phone does not work with Samsung software</title><content type='html'>Yesterday I wasted half a day trying to figure out why my brand new &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.samsung.com/ie/consumer/mobile-phones/mobile-phones/touch-screen/GT-I5700UWAXEU/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_0&quot;&gt;Samsung&lt;/span&gt; Galaxy Portal&lt;/a&gt; (called a Spica in the rest of Europe or the GT-I5700 for the geeks) phone would  not connect to the software provided with it called New PC Studio. It  turns out that for the software to detect the device as being a phone  you need to go (in Android) into Settings / Applications / Development and enable &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_1&quot;&gt;USB&lt;/span&gt;  Debugging. Hardly &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_2&quot;&gt;intuitive&lt;/span&gt;. Even with the software recognising the  phone, most of the basic functionality is not supported - I&#39;m talking  little things like syncing contacts and uploading or downloading media  such as photos. The only thing that is supported is &quot;Update Device&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBHeWpf8sYmjjm5w9jSCNmLaiQ-AOy9XYN6s-IJQ9w7ucxjDAoK9mOdWKVBk1BDwEiaFOf3ohcEup87OOsB_Dwytt8EkuBh-Z1KJjlnYVgt7WQyUKzqeE7JVZL3WjH7XsIM0iz/s1600-h/newpcstudio.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBHeWpf8sYmjjm5w9jSCNmLaiQ-AOy9XYN6s-IJQ9w7ucxjDAoK9mOdWKVBk1BDwEiaFOf3ohcEup87OOsB_Dwytt8EkuBh-Z1KJjlnYVgt7WQyUKzqeE7JVZL3WjH7XsIM0iz/s400/newpcstudio.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451210246919073858&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is actually important since the phone runs Android 1.5 but an  upgrade to 2.1 is promised soon. &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_3&quot;&gt;Unfortunately&lt;/span&gt; when you check for the update it is more disappointment!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpSC5F0hdzqFhPthHsMYTne-7yyBhxlJ6B22KBhzbv-fyMC-Jsf8TL971KKrqvpKQOkMc1vMNo5MkvxJ7BIN_0IVPxsKK0sebTbnoyPnga564RDaGoxKaOcNI8Y4TXgjb7DQ0U/s1600-h/errordevice.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpSC5F0hdzqFhPthHsMYTne-7yyBhxlJ6B22KBhzbv-fyMC-Jsf8TL971KKrqvpKQOkMc1vMNo5MkvxJ7BIN_0IVPxsKK0sebTbnoyPnga564RDaGoxKaOcNI8Y4TXgjb7DQ0U/s400/errordevice.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451212860246993250&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you do want to transfer content then it can be done. Once you have connected the phone via &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_4&quot;&gt;USB&lt;/span&gt; you will see a device called &quot;&lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_5&quot;&gt;UMS&lt;/span&gt; Composite (F:)&quot;. This is actually the micro SD card inserted into the phone. If you try and open it you get this error.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4hl1Z0rAi-nIxcQ5_bjybnSTqgqXcu-tiO322MO5zGwCrK8GRHUcn7bVGJRLUG_uudcfq-3jybeoV4Isc_Fj3V_zDPJCfYiJZPTxD0crql90KxfEkNqjDpTpPNmdydpEs240b/s1600-h/insertdisk.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4hl1Z0rAi-nIxcQ5_bjybnSTqgqXcu-tiO322MO5zGwCrK8GRHUcn7bVGJRLUG_uudcfq-3jybeoV4Isc_Fj3V_zDPJCfYiJZPTxD0crql90KxfEkNqjDpTpPNmdydpEs240b/s400/insertdisk.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451213336111665538&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the rather geeky solution to this is that when the phone is connected a &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_6&quot;&gt;USB&lt;/span&gt; logo will appear in the upper status bar on the phone. If you drag this down you will see a notification that &quot;&lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_7&quot;&gt;USB&lt;/span&gt; Connected&quot;. Clicking this message will result in the following message &quot;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;You have connected your phone to your computer via &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_8&quot;&gt;USB&lt;/span&gt;. Select &quot;Mount&quot; if you want to copy files between your &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_9&quot;&gt;computer&lt;/span&gt; and the phones SD card&lt;/span&gt;&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mounting disks is something I associate with 80&#39;s computer rooms - not connecting to mobile phones. What I find &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_10&quot;&gt;particularly&lt;/span&gt; disappointing is that none of the help I needed to trouble shoot all these issues came from &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_11&quot;&gt;Samsung&lt;/span&gt;. There was no notice in the packaging that the supplied software was incompatible with the device and nothing helpful on their web site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisAP80h0VJfL4z4EPJrtmqZAfO5xmtiRz7ZEN1BrwEsgWHVjqdrMzu4HMTwoVxCqfyS9oaeHVhYByvDlaYXaH6HG4p9p5ERX5OTwS8zbtYnw8B0iJsCTbiTTmIItzEzM_eq7Uy/s1600-h/portal.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisAP80h0VJfL4z4EPJrtmqZAfO5xmtiRz7ZEN1BrwEsgWHVjqdrMzu4HMTwoVxCqfyS9oaeHVhYByvDlaYXaH6HG4p9p5ERX5OTwS8zbtYnw8B0iJsCTbiTTmIItzEzM_eq7Uy/s400/portal.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451222948352829762&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a real shame because the phone itself is very good &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_12&quot;&gt;especially&lt;/span&gt; for the price - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phones/phones/pay-monthly/samsung/galaxy-portal-i5700/overview/&quot;&gt;free with a £20 quid contract&lt;/a&gt;. Having already got an &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_13&quot;&gt;iPod&lt;/span&gt; Touch I was not interested in an iPhone and I already have a Blackberry for business purposes and whilst I have no doubt that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/phone/choose?hl=en&amp;amp;gl=GB&amp;amp;s7e=&quot;&gt;Nexus One&lt;/a&gt; will be superior it&#39;s not $529 better so this mid range Android phone is perfect for my personal needs. I just wish that Samsung had treated it&#39;s customers with some respect and documented the limitations and workarounds so that the experience of purchasing this lovely little phone would not be spoilt</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/3048951204410904298/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=3048951204410904298' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/3048951204410904298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/3048951204410904298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/03/samsung-android-phone-does-not-work.html' title='Samsung Android phone does not work with Samsung software'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBHeWpf8sYmjjm5w9jSCNmLaiQ-AOy9XYN6s-IJQ9w7ucxjDAoK9mOdWKVBk1BDwEiaFOf3ohcEup87OOsB_Dwytt8EkuBh-Z1KJjlnYVgt7WQyUKzqeE7JVZL3WjH7XsIM0iz/s72-c/newpcstudio.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-7659580994038159573</id><published>2010-03-05T15:56:00.002+00:00</published><updated>2010-03-05T16:01:52.078+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2010"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Edinburgh"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="LCTY"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="London"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lotus"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Social"/><title type='text'>LCTY: Bridging the Digital Divide - Demonstrating Enterprise Social Tools</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyw0VtV5HEKQr3BFyL3iZakH2qg7FOvHGnMySQrX2DHxTJKCus9Sd3BNR3-EjuWnoxPX8_nqEMxiDfgO86w3jnqV2DwOpUYC1gDOBBCafiQD2WQdCXYhyphenhypheneVeIUfCGKsXLJTrIo/s1600-h/lcty2010uk.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyw0VtV5HEKQr3BFyL3iZakH2qg7FOvHGnMySQrX2DHxTJKCus9Sd3BNR3-EjuWnoxPX8_nqEMxiDfgO86w3jnqV2DwOpUYC1gDOBBCafiQD2WQdCXYhyphenhypheneVeIUfCGKsXLJTrIo/s400/lcty2010uk.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445179825602284818&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m lucky enough to be presenting at Lotusphere Comes to You again this year. This is the abstract of my pitch for London and Edinburgh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Today, employees are divided into digital natives, those who have grown up with the web, mobile devices, always on broadband connectivity and internet social networking and digital immigrants, those who grew up working in a fixed office with more traditional tools like email.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through a series of demonstrations, see how IBM&#39;s social and collaborative portfolio seamlessly bridge between these worlds bringing social capabilities to traditional users and bringing robust security, reliability and integration to the social world to produce true enterprise ready professional networking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This empowers organisations to maximize their success by realizing the potential of their people through collaboration, communication and social technologies and mining the collective wisdom of their staff for more accurate and effective decision making.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope to see you there.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/7659580994038159573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=7659580994038159573' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/7659580994038159573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/7659580994038159573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/03/lcty-bridging-digital-divide.html' title='LCTY: Bridging the Digital Divide - Demonstrating Enterprise Social Tools'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyw0VtV5HEKQr3BFyL3iZakH2qg7FOvHGnMySQrX2DHxTJKCus9Sd3BNR3-EjuWnoxPX8_nqEMxiDfgO86w3jnqV2DwOpUYC1gDOBBCafiQD2WQdCXYhyphenhypheneVeIUfCGKsXLJTrIo/s72-c/lcty2010uk.gif" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-3862122987565661463</id><published>2010-03-03T18:11:00.004+00:00</published><updated>2010-03-03T19:23:13.597+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="harddisk"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="password"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="t60p"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="T61p"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Thinkpad"/><title type='text'>Grayed out hard disk password on a Thinkpad</title><content type='html'>Every 3 months or so I have what I call password day. This is when all my corporate passwords expire and I need to change them. Despite most of IBM&#39;s internal services being &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_0&quot;&gt;authenticate&lt;/span&gt;d against our intranet ID and password, I still need to manually change things like OS Passwords (two Windows and one &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_1&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/span&gt; clients), &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_2&quot;&gt;VPN&lt;/span&gt;, Boot up and hard disk passwords, Blackberry, &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_3&quot;&gt;Sametime&lt;/span&gt;, Activities, FTP and a few others relating to non standard sites and services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrjJuEMbkNcSHi5dHMuYsBeaHxBQmQVe706YVnaEP3W5tGAHzbBRZ0Y2TWdI-tMD6_SGsXeaFMPqj3lAz9mudpoL9tIWJtZ8cHbSl5STfiP8zr1oyVb8pRsU-FfxOxapZ9hi7Q/s1600-h/t61p.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrjJuEMbkNcSHi5dHMuYsBeaHxBQmQVe706YVnaEP3W5tGAHzbBRZ0Y2TWdI-tMD6_SGsXeaFMPqj3lAz9mudpoL9tIWJtZ8cHbSl5STfiP8zr1oyVb8pRsU-FfxOxapZ9hi7Q/s400/t61p.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444489617794687586&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whilst this is quite irritating to have to do, it is a necessary evil and normally quite straight forward. But today I hit a snag I haven&#39;t come across before. When I went to change my hard disk password in the BIOS it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayed_out&quot;&gt;grayed out&lt;/a&gt;. This was &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_4&quot;&gt;especially&lt;/span&gt; annoying because I had changed my power on password &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_5&quot;&gt;successfully&lt;/span&gt;. The last thing you want is to have two different passwords on boot up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My initial &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_6&quot;&gt;thought&lt;/span&gt; was that it must be something to do with the supervisor password - but it wasn&#39;t enabled. Turns out that the problem was that the hard disk password was set on a different machine, a &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_7&quot;&gt;Thinkpad&lt;/span&gt; T60p but I had upgraded to a T61p. As luck would have it, I hadn&#39;t got round to returning the old T60p so I could swap the drive back - remove the password and then put it back in my new machine and pop the new password on. I don&#39;t know what I could have done if I had returned the old machine. So a warning to &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_8&quot;&gt;Thinkpad&lt;/span&gt; users - it is &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_9&quot;&gt;incredibly&lt;/span&gt; handy being able to use the same drives across different models - but if you are &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_10&quot;&gt;transferring&lt;/span&gt; a drive then remove the password first - otherwise you might find that you are stuck with it!</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/3862122987565661463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=3862122987565661463' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/3862122987565661463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/3862122987565661463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/03/grayed-out-hard-disk-password-on.html' title='Grayed out hard disk password on a Thinkpad'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrjJuEMbkNcSHi5dHMuYsBeaHxBQmQVe706YVnaEP3W5tGAHzbBRZ0Y2TWdI-tMD6_SGsXeaFMPqj3lAz9mudpoL9tIWJtZ8cHbSl5STfiP8zr1oyVb8pRsU-FfxOxapZ9hi7Q/s72-c/t61p.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-3262281235608354520</id><published>2010-02-21T16:36:00.006+00:00</published><updated>2010-02-24T12:22:22.508+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="damon chivers"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="fender"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="guitar"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="hardtail"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="strat"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stratocaster"/><title type='text'>Guitar Hero</title><content type='html'>I was just browsing YouTube when I came upon this film of my friend Damon. He works for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fender.com/uk&quot;&gt;Fender&lt;/a&gt; and funnily enough he does pretty much the same job as me except he demonstrates and explains guitars while I do the same for social and collaborative software. On the one hand this makes him way cooler than me but then I work more sociable hours and get a better company car.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Damon, or Bass Elf as we called him, used to play in my band Sideburner. Obviously we were somewhat under utilising his skillz by forcing him to play the fat strings but Lightning Tom was already lead guitarist so that was the only job left. Here is any example of our &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5jRP-AhRBc&quot;&gt;ragged magnificence&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if you enjoy guitar, are interested in the Fender Stratocaster (particularly the &#39;79 hardtail) or just like watching short people over compensate then spend 5 minutes in the company of Damon presenting his extraordinary abilities whilst also showing off outrageously. As he should.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;450&quot; height=&quot;260&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/EMBahHmdVhk&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/EMBahHmdVhk&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;450&quot; height=&quot;260&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/3262281235608354520/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=3262281235608354520' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/3262281235608354520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/3262281235608354520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/02/guitar-hero.html' title='Guitar Hero'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-8413001027066611687</id><published>2010-01-15T20:25:00.002+00:00</published><updated>2010-01-15T20:36:16.632+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="gmail"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="google"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="IBM"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lotus Notes"/><title type='text'>Gmail 2010 = Lotus Notes 1995?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZIrr428oqujmlgU_zLi6E7kTcK3fxRuZekoXqxDj6NMmmb_N4oXU8xA-QgithdbeIm0_PwWON1T_92IPbRtLvCe551ZVbmjdXA9rf-sjj0ro2i3pNQggf9aiQCvWg1x8a_Sfw/s1600-h/gmal.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZIrr428oqujmlgU_zLi6E7kTcK3fxRuZekoXqxDj6NMmmb_N4oXU8xA-QgithdbeIm0_PwWON1T_92IPbRtLvCe551ZVbmjdXA9rf-sjj0ro2i3pNQggf9aiQCvWg1x8a_Sfw/s400/gmal.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427067970237521730&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A very interesting article from PC Pro comparing and contrasting the progress of Google Mail with Lotus Notes. Comparing a robust reliable product matured over many years to the new players on the block reminds me of an old anecdote my Dad used to tell; &quot;When I was a kid my father knew nothing. It&#39;s amazing what he has learned since then.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Comparing the Notes architecture back then (all of which is still in the product, even now) with what Google is laboriously developing, as if there were no prior art, is pretty illuminating: Notes does smart replication between servers and clients, works offline or in low-bandwidth connections admirably well, secures the inter-machine traffic with robust levels of encryption, doesn’t have to sit on top of protocols used for other things, stamps messages with irrefutable digital identities so you can verify who the sender really is. These are all things which SMTP (on the one hand) and webmail over http (on the other) are struggling to reproduce, the best part of 20 years later.&lt;/span&gt;&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Full Story: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2010/01/15/gmail-2010-lotus-notes-1995/&quot;&gt;http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2010/01/15/gmail-2010-lotus-notes-1995/&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/8413001027066611687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=8413001027066611687' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/8413001027066611687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/8413001027066611687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/01/gmail-2010-lotus-notes-1995.html' title='Gmail 2010 = Lotus Notes 1995?'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZIrr428oqujmlgU_zLi6E7kTcK3fxRuZekoXqxDj6NMmmb_N4oXU8xA-QgithdbeIm0_PwWON1T_92IPbRtLvCe551ZVbmjdXA9rf-sjj0ro2i3pNQggf9aiQCvWg1x8a_Sfw/s72-c/gmal.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-8476617330232061046</id><published>2010-01-08T15:51:00.003+00:00</published><updated>2010-01-08T15:56:18.866+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="humour"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="interview"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="job"/><title type='text'>The Perfect Job Interview</title><content type='html'>It is always important to understand your potential employer when considering how to answer interview questions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.explosm.net/comics/1896/&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Cyanide and Happiness, a daily webcomic&quot; src=&quot;http://www.flashasylum.com/db/files/Comics/Rob/resume2.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;450&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cyanide &amp;amp; Happiness @ &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.explosm.net/&quot;&gt;Explosm.net&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/8476617330232061046/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=8476617330232061046' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/8476617330232061046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/8476617330232061046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/01/perfect-job-interview.html' title='The Perfect Job Interview'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-6310160985492931817</id><published>2010-01-07T14:31:00.008+00:00</published><updated>2010-01-07T20:01:19.519+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="File Navigator"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lotus Notes"/><title type='text'>Saving an email directly to the file system from Lotus Notes</title><content type='html'>I have pretty much lost count of the number of times MS Outlook users who have been upgraded to Lotus Notes have asked me how to save an email either to their file system or to their desktop. The most commonly stated reason for this is so that all the emails, files and documents related to a project can all be saved in one folder on a shared drive. Most organisations now recognise that collaborating through shared drives creates a whole raft of problems including security, duplication, compliance and the inability to find the &quot;one version of the truth&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This capability is pretty much redundant to Lotus users since they have many ways of collaborating including &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sherpasoftware.com/blogs/SherpaBlog.nsf/dx/Domino-85-discussion-template.htm?opendocument&amp;amp;comments&quot;&gt;Teamrooms&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/quickr/&quot;&gt;Quickr Places&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf&quot;&gt;Wikis&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/1af5f59bae92986c85256bae000f898c/0fecac9df1ab1b7e8625764d00203af6%21OpenDocument&quot;&gt;Blogs&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQH9R1_Ak30&quot;&gt;Connections Communities&lt;/a&gt;. These tools include access control, search, versioning and all the various features that promote good information management. However, we must remember that users do tend to become a bit set in their ways, so if they do want to copy mail messages to their file system I point them at the free &lt;a href=&quot;http://openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectLookup/File%20Navigator&quot;&gt;File Navigator&lt;/a&gt; sidebar plugin for Lotus Notes 8.5 and above available from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openntf.org/Internal/home.nsf&quot;&gt;OpenNTF.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My frolleague &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dadams.co.uk/2009/12/31/file-navigator-for-lotus-notes/&quot;&gt;Darren Adams&lt;/a&gt; wrote about it last year. Quite simply it shows your file system in your Lotus Notes sidebar and you can drag and drop files and email to and from it. Specifically, you can drag emails to folders on the file system where they will be stored in their entirety as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail#Filename_extensions&quot;&gt;.eml&lt;/a&gt; documents* (including embedded graphics and attachments). You can also drag multiple emails at the same time. Very cool and great for knocking an old objection on the head.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRV3ptVN2eTM_IjMRUgIkQYJ-ogPx44FwL9g70k6SHacwm2NA2Q5zZe0hF6S-SqKWtszMCSnWGgbq0WKn6MIMdtGVxy1hlrJg1IOf-vLPNuDvwKtyMzmx8nzG9aDyhxm8Yv0Mz/s1600-h/file.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRV3ptVN2eTM_IjMRUgIkQYJ-ogPx44FwL9g70k6SHacwm2NA2Q5zZe0hF6S-SqKWtszMCSnWGgbq0WKn6MIMdtGVxy1hlrJg1IOf-vLPNuDvwKtyMzmx8nzG9aDyhxm8Yv0Mz/s640/file.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notes:&lt;br /&gt;1. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/quickr/connectors.html&quot;&gt;Quickr Connectors&lt;/a&gt; can also create .eml versions of email messages by drag and drop but of course these are stored in Quickr Places rather then the file system.&lt;br /&gt;2. Lotus Notes 8.5.x has an .eml viewer built in if you have the Quickr connectors installed: See here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/ydm9xcy&quot;&gt;http://tinyurl.com/ydm9xcy&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/6310160985492931817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=6310160985492931817' title='28 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/6310160985492931817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/6310160985492931817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/01/saving-email-directly-to-file-system.html' title='Saving an email directly to the file system from Lotus Notes'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRV3ptVN2eTM_IjMRUgIkQYJ-ogPx44FwL9g70k6SHacwm2NA2Q5zZe0hF6S-SqKWtszMCSnWGgbq0WKn6MIMdtGVxy1hlrJg1IOf-vLPNuDvwKtyMzmx8nzG9aDyhxm8Yv0Mz/s72-c/file.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-4210839171895885591</id><published>2010-01-04T00:02:00.002+00:00</published><updated>2010-01-04T13:44:36.429+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="8 bit"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="funny"/><title type='text'>8 Bit Fun (Pun)</title><content type='html'>Click the picture for the appalling pun. I would apologise - but I think it&#39;s very funny :0)&lt;br /&gt;
  41. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL0Qm9zZ83RGmZzvpcgnik2GTqeKsUfd_2D0oLtHAy0EiIAy6XtspZ72goPTS91qEaPUBYTV1WeHbXoigx2ad5ERqDJhQfz393X-28sGLL4ViZKrrK7dDZbcaAbdz9HuhWNf-D/s1600-h/d5df28f5ca_cheating.gif&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL0Qm9zZ83RGmZzvpcgnik2GTqeKsUfd_2D0oLtHAy0EiIAy6XtspZ72goPTS91qEaPUBYTV1WeHbXoigx2ad5ERqDJhQfz393X-28sGLL4ViZKrrK7dDZbcaAbdz9HuhWNf-D/s640/d5df28f5ca_cheating.gif&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  42. &lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/4210839171895885591/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=4210839171895885591' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/4210839171895885591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/4210839171895885591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/01/8-bit-fun-pun.html' title='8 Bit Fun (Pun)'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL0Qm9zZ83RGmZzvpcgnik2GTqeKsUfd_2D0oLtHAy0EiIAy6XtspZ72goPTS91qEaPUBYTV1WeHbXoigx2ad5ERqDJhQfz393X-28sGLL4ViZKrrK7dDZbcaAbdz9HuhWNf-D/s72-c/d5df28f5ca_cheating.gif" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-6982729799019306261</id><published>2010-01-03T17:21:00.018+00:00</published><updated>2010-01-04T00:18:42.215+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cloud"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Future"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lotus"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lotuslive"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="trends"/><title type='text'>Why better isn&#39;t always best</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKh2m-kYs_acTB0S6tK9mJqXv15l9HNsbl-dn9GEOUFj7doG6g8kE7jsn0kkTdu2NvRn5uwZ1MdLpmSp2l1gnHqini-Pl-hyhMQnawKGkp2NOnoDMXDEbgHk5P8WubKTSzBRo/s1600-h/f1.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKh2m-kYs_acTB0S6tK9mJqXv15l9HNsbl-dn9GEOUFj7doG6g8kE7jsn0kkTdu2NvRn5uwZ1MdLpmSp2l1gnHqini-Pl-hyhMQnawKGkp2NOnoDMXDEbgHk5P8WubKTSzBRo/s400/f1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422630539529368258&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  43. I guess it is now pretty evident that humans are not the greatest at predicting the future. It is well established that generals tend to prepare to fight the previous war (hence &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz_class_aircraft_carrier&quot;&gt;aircraft carriers&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22_Raptor&quot;&gt;fighter jets&lt;/a&gt; take on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47&quot;&gt;AK47&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_explosive_device&quot;&gt;IED&#39;s&lt;/a&gt;). Looking back at the predictions from the 1930&#39;s we see reusable &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B707Ava4wrY&quot;&gt;rocket ships&lt;/a&gt; and hand held &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.meekermuseum.com/flashg1.jpg&quot;&gt;ray guns&lt;/a&gt; being on the cards whilst in the 50&#39;s folks were predicting we would be eating &lt;a href=&quot;http://davidszondy.com/future/Living/pill_meal.jpg&quot;&gt;food pills&lt;/a&gt; and flying around in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metronetiq.com/archives/jetpack/SilverJetpack.jpg&quot;&gt;jet packs&lt;/a&gt;. In fact we only have to look back 10 years to see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dimaggio.org/AIG/Newsletters/newslett11.htm&quot;&gt;some predictions&lt;/a&gt; by noted futurologist and author Arthur C. Clark which have mainly been shown to be hopelessly wrong (All coal mines closed, Humans cloned?).&lt;br /&gt;
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  45. So how did they miss real game changers like television, mobile phones, personal computers and of course our old friend the Internet? Perhaps the answer is that, in these 4 examples, they were solutions waiting for people to notice that they needed them. For example the Victorians didn&#39;t sit watching a painting in the corner of their living room wishing it would move.&lt;br /&gt;
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  47. But strangely a lot of recent work has not been about introducing new game changers but rather has been in making things better. On the audio side manufacturer have moved us off vinyl records onto CD, then &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD&quot;&gt;SACD&lt;/a&gt; then &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Audio&quot;&gt;DVD-Audio&lt;/a&gt; but actually more and more people are perfectly happy with sub standard low bit rate MP3&#39;s because they can carry their entire music collection around with them. Similarly with video, manufactures moved us from VHS/Betamax to DVD to Blueray and HD but so many of us consume low quality video on the likes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/&quot;&gt;YouTube.com&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer&quot;&gt;BBC iPlayer&lt;/a&gt; because of the vast amount of content. How many people don&#39;t even bother carrying around a dedicated camera anymore because the one on their mobile phone (with poor lens, low resolution and rubbish flash) is good enough?&lt;br /&gt;
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  49. Similarly, desktop operating systems (and I don&#39;t just mean &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bloat&quot;&gt;Windows Vista&lt;/a&gt;) have been piling on more and more capabilities requiring more and more horse power when out of the blue a massive market for netbooks emerged because many people have quite simple requirements easily served by a low cost, low capabilities device especially when it can be much more mobile and also always connected through WiFi and 3g. Look at the motor industry, particularly in America, and the vehicles were getting bigger and stronger when the customers were crying out for cars that were smaller and more environmentally sound. Witness the success of that glorified milk float the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.velvetron.com/blog/cars_and_transportation/the-toyota-prius-sucks/&quot;&gt;Toyota Prius&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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  51. All of those improvements were better in many ways than their preceding versions but being better is not enough. You need to ensure that things are better in a way that embraces the needs and requirements of the customer. Partly this can be achieved through &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development&quot;&gt;Agile Development&lt;/a&gt;. The key tenets of this design philosophy is to introduce new features faster and ensure that they are aligned to what the customers want by involving them at regular intervals. This is what the Lotus Design Partner program is all about - letting business partners, developers and end users have the chance to ensure that what Lotus is building is what people need.&lt;br /&gt;
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  53. And I think this is reflected in the scope of the Lotus portfolio now. On Premise, Hosted or Cloud based depending on what is right for a particular organisation. Thin client, thick client, browser client, mobile client depending on what is right for a particular user. And a full set of capabilities to truly allow people to work better and smarter. From basic collaboration, team working, real time collaboration, unified communication, professional networking through to knowledge enablement. I really believe that we have all the bases covered and aren&#39;t just trying to make a better email client, but building the best ecosystem for people to work together.&lt;br /&gt;
  54. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lotusphere.com&quot;&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOvteAhytHVXHpGsIieYp6Is5UwQVM3TsZp1G7ah1kdK-zmfyxAGud-AEGxPu4NR5Teg45yP1jZq0wlei91ye-eawPGgqTbEDG_MYs-himOfEDkQ3rO-kzCPqiGL2DHN-_aK1V/s1600-h/lotusphere_2010_530x149.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOvteAhytHVXHpGsIieYp6Is5UwQVM3TsZp1G7ah1kdK-zmfyxAGud-AEGxPu4NR5Teg45yP1jZq0wlei91ye-eawPGgqTbEDG_MYs-himOfEDkQ3rO-kzCPqiGL2DHN-_aK1V/s400/lotusphere_2010_530x149.JPG&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422632584767383314&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  55. I look forward to a great 2010 working for IBM Lotus Software and I wait with baited breath for more exciting announcements from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lotusphere.com/&quot;&gt;Lotusphere 2010&lt;/a&gt;. For instance, what will the next major release of Lotus Notes be called?</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/6982729799019306261/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=6982729799019306261' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/6982729799019306261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/6982729799019306261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/01/why-better-isnt-always-best.html' title='Why better isn&#39;t always best'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKh2m-kYs_acTB0S6tK9mJqXv15l9HNsbl-dn9GEOUFj7doG6g8kE7jsn0kkTdu2NvRn5uwZ1MdLpmSp2l1gnHqini-Pl-hyhMQnawKGkp2NOnoDMXDEbgHk5P8WubKTSzBRo/s72-c/f1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-5189232071092790470</id><published>2010-01-02T17:11:00.004+00:00</published><updated>2010-01-02T17:31:36.359+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="dr who"/><title type='text'>So long Doctor</title><content type='html'>So the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Doctor&quot;&gt;10&lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-error&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_0&quot;&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; Doctor&lt;/a&gt; has regenerated into his new incarnation &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4092973/Matt-Smith-announced-as-new-Doctor-Who.html&quot;&gt;Matt Smith&lt;/a&gt;. Geeks will appreciate the &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_1&quot;&gt;synchronicity&lt;/span&gt; in this appointment since The Doctor often refers to himself as Mr Smith when he is incognito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But from my perspective there is a more &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_2&quot;&gt;significant&lt;/span&gt; change - which is that the venerable Dr Who logo which has been used since the series returned in 2005 is being replaced with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/features/bulletins/bulletin_091005_01&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;. I can&#39;t say I&#39;m convinced but I suppose we will have to see how it suits the new season which starts in the UK this spring. However, it has certainly prompted me to &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_3&quot;&gt;regenerate&lt;/span&gt; the poorly &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_4&quot;&gt;plagiarised&lt;/span&gt; Ports Thoughts logo into something a little less showy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-sARmH8gZFdT8mB7vAtceH04_8guoOtu0pbf5Hvej9KR2o-491ytkgybf-DxQEE_Zmqd8u6YXrm-0Dhq762bTQ4-c8yiIij601UwRkrqofLWPLmUC0gUuymYHDNEHmSmFVUb1/s1600-h/ports_thoughts.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-sARmH8gZFdT8mB7vAtceH04_8guoOtu0pbf5Hvej9KR2o-491ytkgybf-DxQEE_Zmqd8u6YXrm-0Dhq762bTQ4-c8yiIij601UwRkrqofLWPLmUC0gUuymYHDNEHmSmFVUb1/s400/ports_thoughts.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422196024499275762&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are an old timer like me and you are interested in the history of the Dr Who logo&#39;s from very &lt;span class=&quot;blsp-spelling-corrected&quot; id=&quot;SPELLING_ERROR_5&quot;&gt;beginning&lt;/span&gt; then this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/features/galleries/gallery_logos/1&quot;&gt;quite cool&lt;/a&gt;.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/5189232071092790470/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=5189232071092790470' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/5189232071092790470'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/5189232071092790470'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2010/01/so-long-doctor.html' title='So long Doctor'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-sARmH8gZFdT8mB7vAtceH04_8guoOtu0pbf5Hvej9KR2o-491ytkgybf-DxQEE_Zmqd8u6YXrm-0Dhq762bTQ4-c8yiIij601UwRkrqofLWPLmUC0gUuymYHDNEHmSmFVUb1/s72-c/ports_thoughts.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-6990761698193789585</id><published>2009-09-16T00:08:00.011+01:00</published><updated>2009-09-24T20:44:45.783+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="bath"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bathroom"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="loo"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="lovely"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Off topic"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="sink"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tiles"/><title type='text'>New Bathroom</title><content type='html'>We have a small problem with our bathroom. Her name is &lt;a href=&quot;http://lucyporter.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Lucy&lt;/a&gt;. When we moved into our house it didn&#39;t have a bath, just a fancy shower.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCPBf-9CzArwq0xPPU4GsmrIVXLvXAyNy7KAlti953YdUnVUVRyru1RtL2YO2fLIJwJMDTvg0YmXNYirjTzEoIXb_C6RWtaGV_T1Eu6YoTZJhZCwLYsma56_Sd09w_f6a26LKt/s1600-h/a0.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCPBf-9CzArwq0xPPU4GsmrIVXLvXAyNy7KAlti953YdUnVUVRyru1RtL2YO2fLIJwJMDTvg0YmXNYirjTzEoIXb_C6RWtaGV_T1Eu6YoTZJhZCwLYsma56_Sd09w_f6a26LKt/s400/a0.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381841379347142418&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was fine when Lucy was a baby. But she is now on the verge of being two and a half and doesn&#39;t really fit into the baby bath. So it was time for a new bathroom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn1edOxe4BfFD-Y-REpHvQGcvOLddzRDEC3R5MafdZzNo0UPi5t0Zj8oof79yMCP1nJQqg-8Tsax8s8xiU3IXTMUsEEHvg4dDhBZe66FYhm0fbBOhUeM4xe0mx0_8RKsu-hShm/s1600-h/a1.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn1edOxe4BfFD-Y-REpHvQGcvOLddzRDEC3R5MafdZzNo0UPi5t0Zj8oof79yMCP1nJQqg-8Tsax8s8xiU3IXTMUsEEHvg4dDhBZe66FYhm0fbBOhUeM4xe0mx0_8RKsu-hShm/s400/a1.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381841366368463746&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quite aside from Lucy and the shower situation, the old bathroom was a bit crap. Pink tiles and faux marble are not a good look in 1989 never mind 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgea6pWxtRb7JUjKFGhZZfWpTbRtXx-GHV85kuu2HZ664gy2-wdH-nAbuMD6PVuTX9KJ0-PDdWGeQVxKktiQNJug6G99E2QGZ6BFidMrxERZXcEVpNzORcxa1p2bhw3WMQVLm_e/s1600-h/a3.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgea6pWxtRb7JUjKFGhZZfWpTbRtXx-GHV85kuu2HZ664gy2-wdH-nAbuMD6PVuTX9KJ0-PDdWGeQVxKktiQNJug6G99E2QGZ6BFidMrxERZXcEVpNzORcxa1p2bhw3WMQVLm_e/s400/a3.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381840116614515362&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First job, get rid of the awful pink tiles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwVuDdmg8nFrL2AQgYD2KAOIPwtNHrz0JjwdVmUYLDYbtuTST4owWJeuQRkhHHjLfeTZXa24aruSb_s1fBdcGNLH43QQQFqjYnB6OGRqNJzSHH_nxkwnSc9LLJGUNy4p43z7Ou/s1600-h/a4.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwVuDdmg8nFrL2AQgYD2KAOIPwtNHrz0JjwdVmUYLDYbtuTST4owWJeuQRkhHHjLfeTZXa24aruSb_s1fBdcGNLH43QQQFqjYnB6OGRqNJzSHH_nxkwnSc9LLJGUNy4p43z7Ou/s400/a4.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381840111128953314&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fit a bath where the shower had been.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuHw_uroJS6_BBfcTQJGAPmclL-1rPoOYsnpGeOsiRn6Aqv0X6O5pINDnuOkCXTOZwVqlJ0-GKV9YiWtxI2oOoX2DjQ-DYvWppxnAVz6mt4yu9A1cHM6mU8-h4iDjNLDyskWAk/s1600-h/a5.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuHw_uroJS6_BBfcTQJGAPmclL-1rPoOYsnpGeOsiRn6Aqv0X6O5pINDnuOkCXTOZwVqlJ0-GKV9YiWtxI2oOoX2DjQ-DYvWppxnAVz6mt4yu9A1cHM6mU8-h4iDjNLDyskWAk/s400/a5.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381840104658605986&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the very laborious job of putting fresh new tiles up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtMKvacoUQdHpTw-Y5fm6p9hHU-8skI6iIx7fJeC0IG2am8VDdOTP4w1Vj9O6zK943z3oNapBnTTYTd3CBQ74rWkgTGlAezO2qJC4LIUF3rRzCzhyv5NaRLxIbnLNuacaxptRH/s1600-h/a6.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtMKvacoUQdHpTw-Y5fm6p9hHU-8skI6iIx7fJeC0IG2am8VDdOTP4w1Vj9O6zK943z3oNapBnTTYTd3CBQ74rWkgTGlAezO2qJC4LIUF3rRzCzhyv5NaRLxIbnLNuacaxptRH/s400/a6.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381840091781536658&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using the new bath as an impromptu work bench. 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Starts looking worse before it looks better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirELwenFbgGDquc9qG76eRXcuVmsagH4i3eaL8b5Pk_pEwhnhlPJFkeu4se1onmxTgD7jFJJftiHz2bQs28tZyNd5H3Nb3w9h4tpGII2BqyLld3RL_t34tVKT3pPznqjUfNUgN/s1600-h/a93.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirELwenFbgGDquc9qG76eRXcuVmsagH4i3eaL8b5Pk_pEwhnhlPJFkeu4se1onmxTgD7jFJJftiHz2bQs28tZyNd5H3Nb3w9h4tpGII2BqyLld3RL_t34tVKT3pPznqjUfNUgN/s400/a93.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381838801212322850&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In with the toilet and new sink.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgimUabKdxvp1GBlXt5S8vZ6gM3DQv0fNx9M_UhP_Gtd1SLkKz-rI3rWi8GeymRbvsuUTYwPpHZWomfbOow-90BwFb2BGRBLfwnFs42lzfU7Pq5crRDzE4tY6vuBWUHwuY2-HpP/s1600-h/a94.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgimUabKdxvp1GBlXt5S8vZ6gM3DQv0fNx9M_UhP_Gtd1SLkKz-rI3rWi8GeymRbvsuUTYwPpHZWomfbOow-90BwFb2BGRBLfwnFs42lzfU7Pq5crRDzE4tY6vuBWUHwuY2-HpP/s400/a94.JPG&quot; 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href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZxzCGUMT3nZ3EceNCtn5c9fjWXiB14MWv5g0JXYyvL4HMTu6t4ZYLCOCAs9I-SJRJ-6ODz9mITPHBnyJLmstG5v9wsGEzI0M5g2kbMOj5UxV5jS7sQ7E0bKHAcNsW0BMJh_a/s1600-h/a97.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZxzCGUMT3nZ3EceNCtn5c9fjWXiB14MWv5g0JXYyvL4HMTu6t4ZYLCOCAs9I-SJRJ-6ODz9mITPHBnyJLmstG5v9wsGEzI0M5g2kbMOj5UxV5jS7sQ7E0bKHAcNsW0BMJh_a/s400/a97.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381836042298466130&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lucy loves her new bathroom but especially her new bath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI9q37psFBxQOntBzPUb9xlZYc5Par6cV_53_ZQbo3UE92O0SE_XjT1Esj4wRrxdkLcNOnONfuD_GNRK8GCMqD3JbzWpHeD1cr6V099_f3j-PYKf-Ohu0dpL5aqY7JEC_gU0k0/s1600-h/IMG_1559.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXXOLFCCvY6ic6GjUhTgCCFCoyvEwbCmGXAOTfBsepSdWnTeu_74MGfbx9Mt3P4P3A2HdNPAkR44pLBqg5BkU7NYlW2vlHQJXcmven_IBygO3qAwIf1_zpNlrMSDg-PH8-xdyw/s1600-h/IMG_1501.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXXOLFCCvY6ic6GjUhTgCCFCoyvEwbCmGXAOTfBsepSdWnTeu_74MGfbx9Mt3P4P3A2HdNPAkR44pLBqg5BkU7NYlW2vlHQJXcmven_IBygO3qAwIf1_zpNlrMSDg-PH8-xdyw/s400/IMG_1501.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381824016929422306&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/7365044310935829879/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=7365044310935829879' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/7365044310935829879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/7365044310935829879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2009/09/boo-loves-smarties.html' title='Boo Loves Smarties'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXXOLFCCvY6ic6GjUhTgCCFCoyvEwbCmGXAOTfBsepSdWnTeu_74MGfbx9Mt3P4P3A2HdNPAkR44pLBqg5BkU7NYlW2vlHQJXcmven_IBygO3qAwIf1_zpNlrMSDg-PH8-xdyw/s72-c/IMG_1501.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10464003.post-7869650079916076619</id><published>2009-08-21T12:01:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-08-21T12:18:59.207+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lotus Notes Mail Collaboration LotusKnows"/><title type='text'>e:Mail is a part of collaboration</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpkG4JKA9Jixz80nUX8lcgc2-AekhOEh0SZlDD2OP52VnumlUux98jk5N0ogRZvIi9gKdxZkaecgcTfN59GpgMgk07BTdsMf9crrdrnEUy_CI1IamEI-ggJ92pGQvs7Y2p9Fhw/s1600-h/notes.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 318px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpkG4JKA9Jixz80nUX8lcgc2-AekhOEh0SZlDD2OP52VnumlUux98jk5N0ogRZvIi9gKdxZkaecgcTfN59GpgMgk07BTdsMf9crrdrnEUy_CI1IamEI-ggJ92pGQvs7Y2p9Fhw/s400/notes.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372373597473699314&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Lotus Knows that collaboration means people working together to achieve better more productive results. Sometimes this means participating in finding expertise, sharing files, discussions, instant chats, collaborative applications, workflow, knowledge management and sometimes it means sending an email or scheduling a meeting. Lotus Notes and Domino allows all of these types of collaboration (and more) on a single platform via any client (Rich, Web or Mobile) on any O/S (Windows, Linux, Mac).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Competing solutions require multiple platforms to achieve these capabilities. Why would you want to use one solution to send an email or schedule a meeting but then require a different solution to book a holiday or participate in a collaborative team space? They are all collaboration. Email is the TCP/IP of collaboration and should not be thought of as a different product. (Remember when calendaring was separate from email (cc:Mail and Organiser vs. MS Mail and Schedule+) - would you ever want them separate again? of course not. So why do it with collaboration?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmDwzOv-tQwrCefOhthtbEDXJgSo3Y5myrEU-YbOgmo0F1y-HqrfWBVk6qz65a3o6rNuCA4H_cGXqKnJ4TUXDV7P7aZn1YJnCZtPHmxkzm2GTX6LhK0WGlsqeRRv0D_6qheMep/s1600-h/logo_top.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmDwzOv-tQwrCefOhthtbEDXJgSo3Y5myrEU-YbOgmo0F1y-HqrfWBVk6qz65a3o6rNuCA4H_cGXqKnJ4TUXDV7P7aZn1YJnCZtPHmxkzm2GTX6LhK0WGlsqeRRv0D_6qheMep/s400/logo_top.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372374883956628194&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you agree, vote for this thought on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotusknows.ideajam.net/ideajam/ibm/lotusknows/ideajam.nsf/0/48D22C61192A4C92862576170080A3D7#votinganc&quot;&gt;LotusKnows Ideajam&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mrports.com/feeds/7869650079916076619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10464003&amp;postID=7869650079916076619' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/7869650079916076619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10464003/posts/default/7869650079916076619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mrports.com/2009/08/email-is-part-of-collaboration.html' title='e:Mail is a part of collaboration'/><author><name>Mr Ports</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08842669319018647708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/278/3247/640/ports%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpkG4JKA9Jixz80nUX8lcgc2-AekhOEh0SZlDD2OP52VnumlUux98jk5N0ogRZvIi9gKdxZkaecgcTfN59GpgMgk07BTdsMf9crrdrnEUy_CI1IamEI-ggJ92pGQvs7Y2p9Fhw/s72-c/notes.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry></feed>

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