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<title>Building a home made Sonos</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Wow, it's hard to believe it's been pretty
much two years since I posted a blog entry, Facebook removed my need to
blog, and I now stay in touch with family and friends that way.  So
onto they blog entry, why post something now?  Well those of ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Wow, it's hard to believe it's been pretty
much two years since I posted a blog entry, Facebook removed my need to
blog, and I now stay in touch with family and friends that way.  So
onto they blog entry, why post something now?  Well those of you that
are friends with me on Facebook, know that I purchased a partially built
house last year, which for the last few months has been getting finished.
  As the house was just a skeleton, it gave me an opportunity to do
useful things like put CAT6 throughout the house, with various network
sockets scattered around the house.  It also gave me the opportunity
to do something else I've wanted to do and that was to put music into every
room.
 
 I had a few requirements for my system
which were:
 1. No visible power supplies.
 2. No visible wires.
 3. Ability to sync rooms, so they play
the same music, or play different music independently.
 4. Support for AirPlay, so guests can
stream music if they are staying in the guest room for example.
 5. Power of the CAT6 through Power-Over-Ethernet
(PoE), so regular electrical sockets wouldn't need to be hidden in the
walls or ceiling
 6. Ability for the system to play music
without requiring the controller to be turned on, example iPhone or iPad,
so the controller is not streaming the music.
 
 I have many friends that love and swear
by their Sonos devices, so I gave them a good hard look, I liked the Sonos,
but Sonos didn't cover all my requirements, like no visible wires or power
supplies, I looked at other solutions too, but nothing really met my requirements,
often with the PoE being the biggest stumbling block.
 
 I had no issue making my own solution,
as long as I could make it easily, relatively cheaply and ensure it was
reliable.  From my experience with the <a href="http://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9VFPSP"
title="children's cockpit" target=_new>children's cockpit</a>,
I started to think about the Raspberry Pi and if any solutions could be
built using that.  So I started with simple google searches for things
like PoE for Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi Sonos, homemade Sonos and reading
up the different links, I found myself building my own system based around
the Raspberry Pi with off the shelf components and software
 
 Here's what I ended up with, hidden
in the ceiling or wall of each room.
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 The insides consist of:
 1 x <a href="http://amzn.to/2nAZND2"
title="Raspberry Pi 3" target=_new>Raspberry Pi 3</a>
- $38.27
 1 x <a href="https://www.pi-supply.com/product/pi-poe-switch-hat-power-over-ethernet-for-raspberry-pi/"
title="Pi PoE Switch HAT" target=_new>Pi PoE Switch HAT</a>
- $40.44
 1 x <a href="https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/boards/miniamp/"
title="HiFiBerry Mini Amp" target=_new>HiFiBerry Mini Amp</a>
- $22.90
 1 x <a href="http://amzn.to/2ozsC7F"
title="Stacking Header for Rasperry Pi" target=_new>Stacking
Header for Rasperry Pi</a> - $12.99 (for 5)
 1 x <a href="http://amzn.to/2oztp8r"
title="8Gb Micro SD Card" target=_new>8Gb Micro SD Card</a>
- $6.45
 1 x <a href="http://amzn.to/2nB89uv"
title="On-Q/Legrand Set Of 2 100-Watt 6.5-in Round In-Ceiling Speaker"
target=_new>On-Q/Legrand Set Of 2 100-Watt 6.5-in Round In-Ceiling Speaker</a>
- $71.95
 I designed and printed my own case,
and used a couple of parts to tidy up the end for <a href="http://amzn.to/2oWGFR0"
title="speaker connectors" target=_new>speaker connectors</a>
and <a href="http://amzn.to/2oWxS1z" title="network
connectors" target=_new>network connectors</a>, not needed,
but added about $8 to the overall cost of each player.
 
 To power them all I purchased a <a
href="http://amzn.to/2nAWhbZ" title="8 Port PoE Switch"
target=_new>8 Port PoE Switch</a> - $114.99
 
 So the cost for all the hardware averaged
out over 7 devices came to right around $200.  Obviously if your requirements
are different and you don't need PoE, or in ceiling speakers this cost
comes down quite a bit.
 
 With this setup each device could meet
my requirements, and as I built it, even give me a few extra benefits.
 
 The nice thing with this setup, is it's
all plug and play, there is NO soldering needed (unless you decide to include
the speaker connectors), so it's a great project if you wanted to make
one with a child that might be interested in electronics, and you want
them to see results quickly.
 
 The build was basically as follows:
 
 1. Take the PoE Switch HAT and connect
it to the Raspberry Pi.  On the PoE Switch, there is a power switch
to turn the Pi On and Off.  As this is going to be hidden in a case,
and then hidden in the ceiling, I wanted it to always power on when there
is power coming from the ethernet cable, and if I really have to do a hard
reboot, I would just disconnect it at the router.  To achieve this
remove the jumper that is on the Switch HAT.
 
 2. Plug the Stacking header onto the
pins on the Switch HAT, this is needed, otherwise the HiFiBerry MiniAmp
when plugged into the GPIO pins on the Switch HAT would short out on the
ethernet cable casing, this stacking header separates the HiFiBerry board
from the Switch HAT.
 
 3. Plug the HiFiBerry MiniAmp onto the
Stacking header.  This mini amp is totally powered by the onboard
Rasperry Pi power, so no external power is required. Whilst this Amp is
only 3 Watts, it sounds great on the On-Q speakers and is plenty loud enough,
especially when you have multiple rooms synced together.  Why go with
an Amp at all, well we need an Amp to power the speakers, but also the
inbuilt audio on the Raspberry Pi tends to pick up lots of electrical interference,
so for example, if you plugged in powered speakers in to the Raspberry
headphone jack, you'd hear lots of hiss and crackle, with the HiFiBerry
MiniAmp, I don't get any of the hiss or crackle, and it also powers the
speakers.
 
 4. Connect the HiFiBerry speaker out
to the speakers.
 
 So now we have the physical hardware
prepared but what about  the software, the stuff that does the rest
of the work?  Well it turns out there are lots of options out there,
from doing the entire thing yourself from scratch putting lots of different
software components yourself or you can go the easy way and get a prebuilt
image where all the work has been done for you.  I found a few solutions
such as <a href="https://volumio.org/" title="Volum.io"
target=_new>Volum.io</a>, <a href="http://www.runeaudio.com/"
title="RuneAudio" target=_new>RuneAudio</a> and <a
href="https://www.max2play.com/en/" title="Max2Play"
target=_new>Max2Play</a>.
 
 I went with Max2Play because of it's
ease of use for setup, and some of the plug-ins that are available, for
example the WiFi Access Point plugin, that lets each Device act like a
WiFi hotspot, yep a hotspot in every room.
 
 The key to making all this work, is
something Logitech built a few years ago, the Squeezebox Server, even though
Logitech have pretty much abandoned Squeezebox, the open source community
has taken it on and continues to enhance it, and plenty of extensions are
still being made for the Squeezebox server, such as BBC and Spotify.
 
 The Max2Play software, will automatically
setup and configure the squeezebox server, so immediately after setup you
can stream from thousands of radio stations around the world.
 
 The key thing you want to do is only
have one of the devices acting as the Squeezbox server, with the others
as players.  Otherwise you will run into issues trying to sync the
audio on the players, and not all players appearing.
 
 For controlling the players, you can
use the free Squeezbox app that is still available as an app, but I prefer
the iPeng 9 player, which has much better control and customization than
the much older squeezebox app.
 ]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2017 13:55:48 +0500</pubDate>
<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
<category>Sonos</category>
<category>Audio</category>
<category>Stream</category>
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<item>
<title>Keep kids interested in flying...</title>
<link>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9VFPSP</link>
<description><![CDATA[ This video shows what I made for my Nephew
this Christmas, it was my first experience with a Raspberry PI, and I learned
quite a bit in the process.  Great little devices.  I used an
all in one kit, that came with pretty much everything I needed ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
<comments>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9VFPSP</comments>
<guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9VFPSP</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[ This video shows what I made for my Nephew
this Christmas, it was my first experience with a Raspberry PI, and I learned
quite a bit in the process.  Great little devices.  I used an
all in one kit, that came with pretty much everything I needed except a
display and keyboard.   I've placed a link to that below.
 
 <iframe width="560" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2e-q8G7Wx6k" frameborder="0"
allowfullscreen></iframe>
 
 
 
 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G1PNG54/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00G1PNG54&linkCode=as2&tag=labadore-20&linkId=RVJVAYZID7OQMSZR"><img
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width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""
style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />
 ]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:34:41 +0500</pubDate>
<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<category>Flying Cockpit</category>
</item>
<item>
<title>Did IBM kill the iOS Sametime Client?</title>
<link>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9UNJ9N</link>
<description><![CDATA[ No, no they didn't.  They did however
change it's name so you or your users may no longer find it.  Maybe
you have a lot of apps on your mobile device and typed in sametime to find
it, maybe you didn't have it yet and went to the apple store and ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
<comments>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9UNJ9N</comments>
<guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9UNJ9N</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[ No, no they didn't.  They did however
change it's name so you or your users may no longer find it.  Maybe
you have a lot of apps on your mobile device and typed in sametime to find
it, maybe you didn't have it yet and went to the apple store and searched
for sametime and still didn't find it.
 
 Yes in their usual take a gun and shoot
yourself in the foot approach to products and marketing, IBM in a recent
update renamed IBM Sametime to IBM Chat.  That's ok (although I actually
don't think it was a smart move), what's stupid though is they didn't create
an alias for the app of sametime, or as they are know in the apple app
store keyword.  How hard would it be for a multi billion dollar mobile
first company to add their old product name as an alias/keyword I wonder?
 
 So if you're looking for what was IBM
Sametime on your device or in the app store, search for IBM chat, don't
search for just chat, or you'll have to scroll through loads of apps before
you find it.
 ]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:51:21 +0500</pubDate>
<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
<category>IBM Stupid</category>
</item>
<item>
<title>Social Connections 8, Boston April 16th-17th</title>
<link>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9U4L4Z</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Social Connections
is shaping up to be a great looking event.
I'm pleased to say that this morning
I received confirmation that I will be presenting.
I'll be presenting a 30 minute session
on April 17th 10.50am, discussing our experience of using the ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
<comments>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9U4L4Z</comments>
<guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9U4L4Z</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[ <a href="http://socialconnections.info/"
title="Social Connections" target=_new>Social Connections</a>
is shaping up to be a great looking event.
 
 I'm pleased to say that this morning
I received confirmation that I will be presenting.
 
 I'll be presenting a 30 minute session
on April 17th 10.50am, discussing our experience of using the IBM Connections
APIs to build a Mobile Meeting Application.
 <a href="http://socialconnections.info/sessions/building-a-mobile-meeting-application-using-ibm-connections/"
title="http://socialconnections.info/sessions/building-a-mobile-meeting-application-using-ibm-connections/"
target=_new>http://socialconnections.info/sessions/building-a-mobile-meeting-application-using-ibm-connections/</a>
 
 <blockquote>A customer had a
requirement for a mobile meeting application, where attendees could see
session details, learn about presenters, gain access to presentation materials
and coursework, all while maintaining and using their existing investment
in IBM Connections. 
 
In this session, Carl Tyler will discuss the creative ways they used the
IBM Connections APIs and features to integrate the mobile application seamlessly
with the IBM Connections environment and the lessons they learned from
using the different APIs/SDKs.</blockquote>
 
 I hope to see you there!
 
 ]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:26:23 +0500</pubDate>
<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<category>Conference</category>
<category>Connections</category>
</item>
<item>
<title>Thoughts on the iWatch</title>
<link>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9TUQSJ</link>
<description><![CDATA[ So a lot has been written about the iWatch,
I have no doubt this thing will sell millions when it comes out,  I
will not however be buying one anytime soon.
I haven't worn a watch since I got my
first cell phone that had a clock in it.  I ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
<comments>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9TUQSJ</comments>
<guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9TUQSJ</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[ So a lot has been written about the iWatch,
I have no doubt this thing will sell millions when it comes out,  I
will not however be buying one anytime soon.
 
 I haven't worn a watch since I got my
first cell phone that had a clock in it.  I never found watches particularly
comfortable to wear, with my wrist typically falling right on the edge
of the desk when typing the watch strap would just eat away at the edge
of the desk.  So lets assume I was to get an iWatch, what would make
me wear one?
 
 Well the first thing it would need to
do, is not depend on having an iPhone.  If the phone was totally replaced
by the watch, then I might wear one, but just having an additional device
that duplicates functionality doesn't fly with me. I wonder if the rumored
apple car will require an iPhone?
 
 I'm the first to admit, that I'm not
a big follower of fashion, but I don't see the iWatch as a fashion statement,
if I want a watch as a fashion statement I'd be getting my childhood fantasy
of a Breitling aviator, something that would still look great in 25 years,
and if a Nephew was left it in a will I'm sure they'd appreciate it.  I
don't see that happening with an iWatch, in 3 years the OS will be out
of date, it will look large and clumsy, and no one will see it as something
they want to inherit.
 
 What do you think? Have you already
put down your desposit?
 ]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:25:35 +0500</pubDate>
<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
<category>iWatch time</category>
</item>
<item>
<title>Forgive me Father, It has been 6 months since my last confession.</title>
<link>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9RPPBX</link>
<description><![CDATA[ It's not clear from the IBM ConnectED website,
but I will indeed be presenting at ConnectED 2015 (the artist formerly
known as Lotusphere).  I'll be doing a panel with the very quiet Mat
Newman, and the very tall Alan Lepofsky.  Which is session ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
<comments>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9RPPBX</comments>
<guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9RPPBX</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[ It's not clear from the IBM ConnectED website,
but I will indeed be presenting at ConnectED 2015 (the artist formerly
known as Lotusphere).  I'll be doing a panel with the very quiet Mat
Newman, and the very tall Alan Lepofsky.  Which is session BP101:
@IF("Its Really Good";"It MUST Be Notes";"Must
Be Something Else") 25 Notes on 25 Years of Notes!
 
 You can now check out all the sessions
on the IBM website <a href="https://www-950.ibm.com/events/global/ibmced/agenda/preview.html"
title="https://www-950.ibm.com/events/global/ibmced/agenda/preview.html"
target=_new>https://www-950.ibm.com/events/global/ibmced/agenda/preview.html</a>
 
 See you there, even if it is for a slightly
shorter time period than usual.
 ]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:11:03 +0500</pubDate>
<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
<category>IBM ConnectED</category>
</item>
<item>
<title>Cable cutting and access to foreign TV stations.</title>
<link>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9K2S8T</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Those of you with really good memories,
may remember way back in April 2009 I cancelled
my cable TV subscription.  My savings have been used to buy various
media players and subscriptions to online service.  Honestly never
had any regrets. ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
<comments>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9K2S8T</comments>
<guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9K2S8T</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Those of you with really good memories,
may remember way back in <a href="http://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-7R3J4P"
title="April 2009" target=_new>April 2009</a> I cancelled
my cable TV subscription.  My savings have been used to buy various
media players and subscriptions to online service.  Honestly never
had any regrets.  A few months ago I purchased a Google Chromecast
as it had such favourable reviews in the press.  All I can say is
these folks haven't tried the Roku or iPlayer for them to consider it such
a great device.  Personally I think it's terrible.  I also discovered
that Chromecast hard codes Google DNS as it's look up service.  How
do I know this? Because BBC iPlayer stopped working.  I used to Witopia
on a router to allow me to access UK shows, but I actually stooped using
that in favour of <a href="http://www.unblock-us.com/10847.html"
title="unblock-us.com" target=_new>unblock-us.com</a>
which is actually a DNS service that spoofs your location.  The nice
thing about this service, is that it means US providers think you're in
the US, UK providers think you're in the UK etc. and you don't suffer any
performance loss from going through a VPN, so works great.  The setup
for unblock-us is basically just switching your router DNS to the unblock-us
DNS servers, so dead easy for most folks.
 
 Anyway, back to Chromecast, I was trying
to use BBC iPlayer with Google Chromecast and had no luck, kept coming
up with an error, iPlayer was working fine with every other device on my
network.  It turns out Chromecast has hard coded DNS entries for Googles
DNS servers, thereby bypassing my DNS entries for <a href="http://www.unblock-us.com/10847.html"
title="unblock-us" target=_new>unblock-us</a>.  How
to get around this?  wel with my router it supports something called
static routes, and all I had to do was setup a static route for any Google
DNS traffic to go to my router, which in turn will go to the <a href="http://www.unblock-us.com/10847.html"
title="unblock-us" target=_new>unblock-us</a>unblock-us
service.  Et voila, Google Chromecast now works with bbc iPlayer in
the US.
 
 <img
src="http://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/Images/CTYR-9K2SPQ/$File/StaticRoute.jpg"
border="0" alt="StaticRoute.jpg">
 ]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2014 16:39:36 +0500</pubDate>
<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<category>None</category>
</item>
<item>
<title>Does Notes call home?</title>
<link>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9JLMWD</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Has anyone seen this?  I recently
updated my installation of Malwarebytes, and it is now throwing up this
warning every few hours:
Anyone else ever seen this?  I'm
still using notes 8.5.3 for my day to day ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
<comments>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9JLMWD</comments>
<guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9JLMWD</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Has anyone seen this?  I recently
updated my installation of Malwarebytes, and it is now throwing up this
warning every few hours:
 
 <img src="http://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/images/CTYR-9JLMUH/$File/NotesCallout.jpg"
alt="NotesCallout.jpg" />
 
 Anyone else ever seen this?  I'm
still using notes 8.5.3 for my day to day work.
 ]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:58:09 +0500</pubDate>
<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
<category>LotusReport </category>
</item>
<item>
<title>The Domino Designer documentation team screwed us all</title>
<link>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9JJ2FQ</link>
<description><![CDATA[ They did us all a disservice by not preparing
us for the future.  They gave us too much useful information in the
documentation.  Pretty much every function in the old Domino Designer
Documentation gave an example for every function or method, so ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
<comments>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9JJ2FQ</comments>
<guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9JJ2FQ</guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[ They did us all a disservice by not preparing
us for the future.  They gave us too much useful information in the
documentation.  Pretty much every function in the old Domino Designer
Documentation gave an example for every function or method, so if you weren't
 sure exactly how to use it, you'd look at the example and try it
out and learn from it, you know, monkey see, monkey do, monkey learn.  Those
days appear to be gone in the new IBM products.  I've been messing
a great deal lately with the Connections APIs,  the atom feeds look
simple enough, but you have to figure out the exact structure yourself,
IBM could save developers hours if they just posted an example atom document
with every single API call in the documentation, it can't be that hard
can it? Surely the test scripts IBM use for testing Connections where they
must post thousands of items through the ATOM APIs could be used as examples?
 
 So thanks for nothing Domino Designer
documentation team, you set our expectations levels so much higher than
what everyone else provides you've made us complacent through making us
too efficient at learning your functions and methods, this isn't how it
is in the real world!
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:21:51 +0500</pubDate>
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<category>Domino Documentation</category>
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<title>IBM SmartCloud Meetings aren't really that Smart.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Went to an IBM SmartCloud Sametime meeting
today, via a URL that goes direct to the meeting, decided check my plugins
etc. before going into the meeting.  I got presented with this dialog:
The thing about this dialog is it is
totally uneeded, the ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Went to an IBM SmartCloud Sametime meeting
today, via a URL that goes direct to the meeting, decided check my plugins
etc. before going into the meeting.  I got presented with this dialog:
 <img
src="http://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/Images/CTYR-9J2NUM/$File/StupidDialog.jpg"
border="0" alt="StupidDialog.jpg">
 
 The thing about this dialog is it is
totally uneeded, the meeting ID was passed as part of the URL, read the
URL with a bit of Javascript IBM and redirect to the correct page automatically.
 End users shouldn't be expected to figure this out, there's nothing
"Smart" about this.
 
 Also don't get me started about how
unSmart Mac screensharing is on IBM SmartCloud.  Share a frame on
a Mac and you can't click through to the app underneath.  This is
basic expected behavior.
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:43:29 +0500</pubDate>
<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
<category>None</category>
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<title>Since when has the OGS been about Press?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ I've seen this comment in a few blog posts
recently, and I have to ask, since when has the OGS been about Press?  People
do realise that the press get 1 on 1 briefings at Connect, and they can
be briefed throughout the year if they want to by making a ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I've seen this comment in a few blog posts
recently, and I have to ask, since when has the OGS been about Press?  People
do realise that the press get 1 on 1 briefings at Connect, and they can
be briefed throughout the year if they want to by making a simple phone
call to IBM.  How about the customers that paid money to be at the
event, shouldn't the whole show be about them?  Without customers,
believe me, the press won't give you 2 minutes.  Personally I think
Connects issue is that IBM doesn't know who the customer is, or what type
of person is sitting in the audience. 
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:18:32 +0500</pubDate>
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<category>None</category>
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<title>How much fun do we have at the Nerd Girls Great Geek Challenge?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ I think this photo taken by Andy Donaldson
pretty much captures ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I think this photo taken by <a href="http://blog.macian.net/"
title="Andy Donaldson" target=_new>Andy Donaldson</a>
pretty much captures it.
 
 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/macian/12215999244/"
title="http://www.flickr.com/photos/macian/12215999244/" target=_new>http://www.flickr.com/photos/macian/12215999244/</a>
 
 <img align="Left" hspace=10px
vspace=10px src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5502/12215999244_7fa4cb3a7d_z.jpg"
alt="External Image" />
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2014 12:56:59 +0500</pubDate>
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<category>Electrocution Pain</category>
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<title>BP501 - Building and deploying custom ibm sametime connect client installations slidedeck</title>
<link>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-9FSMKN</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Here are my slides from the BP501 IBM Connect
2014 session.
BP501
- Building and deploying custom IBM sametime connect client installations
- IBM Connect 2014 from Carl
Tyler ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Here are my slides from the BP501 IBM Connect
2014 session.
 
 <iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/30583955?rel=0"
width="425" height="355" frameborder="0"
marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"
style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px 1px 0; margin-bottom:5px;
max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px">
 <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/carltyler/ibm-connect-2014-bp501-building-and-deploying-custom-ibm-sametime-connect-client-installations-30583955"
title="BP501 - Building and deploying custom IBM sametime connect
client installations - IBM Connect 2014 " target="_blank">BP501
- Building and deploying custom IBM sametime connect client installations
- IBM Connect 2014 </a> from <a
href="http://www.slideshare.net/carltyler" target="_blank">Carl
Tyler</a> </div>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:40:57 +0500</pubDate>
<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<category>Connect Sametime</category>
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<title>What you should really do and see at lotusph...oops IBM Connect</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ So you've all looked at the calendar, you've
picked out some sessions, but lets face it, you want to do some fun stuff.
 So here's the things I suggest:
Great Geek Challenge,
this is one of the most fun events, think pub quiz (in other words ... ]]></description>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ So you've all looked at the calendar, you've
picked out some sessions, but lets face it, you want to do some fun stuff.
 So here's the things I suggest:
 
 <a href="http://www.greatgeekchallenge.com/"
title="Great Geek Challenge" target=_new>Great Geek Challenge</a>,
this is one of the most fun events, think pub quiz (in other words there
is alcohol), organized by the wonderful nerd girls and emceed by myself
and <a href="http://www.pmooney.net/" title="Paul Mooney"
target=_new>Paul Mooney</a>.  It fills up quickly and there
is often a line as it's so much fun, so get there early, either with a
team or without one if there's a seat you can take it.  This year
I also have something fun planned for tie breakers, don't buzz in too soon.
 
 <a href="http://dolphindor.com/"
title="Dolphindor" target=_new>Dolphindor</a> - new
this year, but looks like a great way to use your time having fun.  Do
it as a group, turn it into a drinking game, have some fun.  This
is totally the sort of idea I see others stealing at future shows.
 
 Penumbra Ice Cream Social - it's an
invite only event, so find a <a href="http://penumbra.org/Penumbra/Web2.nsf"
title="Penumbra member" target=_new>Penumbra member</a>and
get an invite ticket.  Basically it's alcoholic milk shakes.
 
 <a href="https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/destinations/epcot/"
title="Epcot" target=_new>Epcot</a> - Drink around
the world.  Sure you need to buy a ticket to Epcot, but doing a pub
crawl around every country in Epcot world can be a lot of fun if there
are a few of you.  Basically partake in the local drink from each
country.  It's convenient in that you can easily walk  to the
Epcot entrance or get the free ferry from the dolphin and swan, so you
can crawl back to your room.  Only thing that Disney seem to be very
strict about is staying out of the fountains when you're drunk.  You
probably shouldn't do this alone.
 
 <a href="http://www.swandolphinrestaurants.com/kimonos/"
title="Kimonos" target=_new>Kimonos</a> - gets packed
every night, always very popular as the night goes on.  Has alcohol.
Helps if you don't have sensitive hearing or are tone death.
 
 <a href="https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/entertainment/boardwalk/jellyrolls/"
title="Duelling Pianos" target=_new>Duelling Pianos</a>
- Lots of fun, great bar, you can start here and finish in Kimonos when
they throw you out.
 
 And it goes without saying, the most
fun on Tuesday afternoon can be had at session BP501 : Building and Deploying
Custom IBM Sametime Connect Client Installations; Tue, 28/Jan 01:30 PM
- 02:30 PM; Dolphin N. Hem D *No Acohol.
 
 For those of you not attending, then
<a href="http://www.ibmconnectlive.com/" title="IBM
Connect Live" target=_new>IBM Connect Live</a> (formerly
LotusphereLive) will be running again for the opening session live blog.
 You can drink if you want.  Everytime Chris or I say social,
do a shot.
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:06:28 +0500</pubDate>
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<category>Connect Lotusphere</category>
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<title>F*@king Bruce and his attention seeking ways...</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ I'm kidding, but someone needs to bring
him back down to earth.   I've known Bruce for a number of years now
as a friend, a customer, partner, advisor, and general good guy.  Honestly,
what can I say that hasn't already been said in all the other ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I'm kidding, but someone needs to bring
him back down to earth.   I've known Bruce for a number of years now
as a friend, a customer, partner, advisor, and general good guy.  Honestly,
what can I say that hasn't already been said in all the other blogs?  I'll
just say this, without Bruce and the commitment he had to keeping OpenNTF
going, the Domino/Notes market could be very different today, it could
have been much worse, OpenNTF filled a hole that IBM chose not to fill,
and it took IBM years to realize it's importance and to step up to the
plate, Bruce always knew it was important, and dedicated his time, effort
and money to keep it going.
 
Thanks for your help and efforts for all these years Bruce!
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 10:03:16 +0500</pubDate>
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<category>Bruce Elgort</category>
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<item>
<title>He walked on his bloody stumps...</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Back in FebruaryI blogged
about The Domino Danderers
and a planned walk across Scotland in aid of the Children's Hospice Association
Scotland.  Originally I was to be performing that walk in May with
the others, but due to some health issues I was ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Back in <a href="http://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-94TS27"
title="February" target=_new>February</a>I blogged
about <a href="http://www.justgiving.com/teams/DominoDanderers"
title="The Domino Danderers" target=_new>The Domino Danderers</a>
and a planned walk across Scotland in aid of the Children's Hospice Association
Scotland.  Originally I was to be performing that walk in May with
the others, but due to some health issues I was unable to take part, except
in a supporting role.  I had raised quite a bit of money back them,
so I couldn't even bale, so I scheduled my attempt for weekend, as I would
already be in the UK for <a href="http://iconuk.org/" title="ICON
UK" target=_new>ICON UK</a> and a friends wedding.
 
 Members of my family took pity on me,
and so I wouldn't have to walk alone a couple of them agreed to walk it
with me, over the next couple of months this became 6 of us.  My 71
year old Dad, my older brother, younger brother, my eldest Niece and eldest
Nephew, with my Uncle and Aunt acting as support vehicle.  We called
ourselves <a href="http://www.justgiving.com/teams/KingTyler"
title="The Three Generations" target=_new>The Three Generations</a>
team.
 
 Our goal was the same as The Domino
Danderers, to walk the<a href="http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/great-glen-way.shtml"
title="Great Glen Way" target=_new>Great Glen Way</a>
from Fort William to Inverness in 4 days.  Having witnessed the other
folks walking it in May, I decided to break up our distances a little different,
primarily to split the hilliest section over two days. So our planned breakdown
for each day was as follows:
 
 Day 1: Fort William to Laggan Locks
 Day 2: Laggan Locks to Invermoriston
 Day 3: Invermoriston to Drumnadrochit
 Day 4: Drumnadrochit to Inverness
 
 So last Thursday night, we arrived on
a beautiful evening at out B&B on the outskirts of Fort William, lying
in the shadow of Ben Nevis.  After a nervous sleep (I was sharing
a room with my two brothers, and I had no idea how they would try and stop
me snoring), we awoke to a light fog weaving it's way through the valleys
with clear view of Ben Nevis backed by a beautiful blue sky.
 
 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iminstant/9723316361/"
title="IMG_2111 by flyboytyler, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7419/9723316361_edce8f9bd6.jpg"
width="500" height="334" alt="IMG_2111"></a>
 
 When I first announced, that I would
be doing this work, I tried to increase the fund raising amount by agreeing
to do certain things if targets were met, the first one, was I would do
the hike in a Kilt and Pith helmet if $2,000 was raised.  It turns
out, that a lot of people wanted to see my look ridiculous in a kilt, so
the and donations started coming in pretty quickly, to prove I fulfilled
that promise here is a photo of our team at the start, all of us decked
out in Kilts, but I'm the one in a pith helmet.
 
 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iminstant/9726555120/"
title="IMG_2137 by flyboytyler, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7440/9726555120_cebaf0789b.jpg"
width="500" height="334" alt="IMG_2137"></a> 
 Left to right, Peter King (Nephew 18),
Bethany King (Niece 23), Charles Tyler (Father 71), David Tyler (brother
44), Carl Tyler, Richard Tyler (brother 38)
 
 We started the hike from the Great Glen
Ways start/end marker in Fort William just after 9am.  The wind was
in our faces, which wasn't expected as usually the prevailing wind is West
to East, for us it decided to make our hike a little more difficult by
being East to West.  As the first day was fairly flat terrain, I had
decided to walk on some fairly new, lighter weight walking shoes, versus
my well worn in walking boots.  This decision would prove to haunt
me for the rest of the trip, as by lunch time on the first day I would
get blisters that would never heal, even with my Niece Bethany doing her
best impressions of a nurse to try and tape them up.
 
 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iminstant/9723292857/"
title="P9060148 by flyboytyler, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5484/9723292857_5a66366203.jpg"
width="500" height="375" alt="P9060148"></a>
 
 Day 1 ended just as the rain started
to come down, and the sun was about to set, but we had all completed it,
22.5 miles with some having faired better than others.
 
 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iminstant/9723298415/"
title="P9060165 by flyboytyler, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7455/9723298415_fbdb157812.jpg"
width="500" height="375" alt="P9060165"></a>
 
 Day 2 we awoke to what I call Welsh
weather, wet, grey, foggy and pretty miserable.  We picked up our
hike where we left off the previous day, I was worred the kilt would become
a huge weight as it became wet, but it turned out to not be an issue.  By
mid day, we were very lucky, the skies had cleared and we had nothing but
puffy Simpson clouds, and the weather would pretty much stay this way until
the last mile on the last day.
 
 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iminstant/9723299091/"
title="P9070167 by flyboytyler, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2860/9723299091_8f3fa54f9f.jpg"
width="500" height="375" alt="P9070167"></a>
 
 
 We lunched at the top of the locks Fort
Augustus, where I tried to decipher the Orange Gatorade ingredients in
order to try and work out why it tastes so disgusting.  I never did
work it out.  There was an Italian tourist bus in town, and a couple
of women wanted to have their photo taken with me.  I don't know if
this was because they thought I was an authentic Scottish person in a kilt,
or if they wanted to start some Italian MeMe of pictures of yourself with
a big man in a kilt, unless it gets huge over there, I'll probably never
know, what we do know for sure is that they didn't want my brother in the
photo just me.
 
 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iminstant/9723300899/"
title="P9070172 by flyboytyler, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7310/9723300899_7e854cbf9c.jpg"
width="500" height="375" alt="P9070172"></a>
 
 On the evening of day 2 my older brothers
military training kicked in, and he took over the care of my blisters,
after soaking my feet in Potassium Permanganate for about an hour, which
helped sterilise the blisters and gave me lovely dark tanned feet, and
I kid you not, golden toe nails, very strange.  He drained the fluid
from my blisters and then using compeed and zinc tape, taped up my feet,
making me promise not to remove the tape until the end of the hike.  In
no position to argue, I agreed.  My nephew Peter appeared to take
great pleasure in watching my brother poke a syringe into my feet, and
I'm sure he's still getting pleasure from watching the video he took of
it.
 
 Day 3 we got up, and whilst Bethany
was making friends with the local turkey, we packed the car, and headed
off back to Invermoriston.
 
 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iminstant/9726529348/"
title="P9080173 by flyboytyler, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5343/9726529348_150491c806.jpg"
width="500" height="375" alt="P9080173"></a>
 
 
 Day 3 would be one of our hilliest days,
and if we felt up to it, we had agreed to keep going at the end of the
day for a few more miles past Drumnadrochit, so that we could get through
the last major hill of the hike, and then leave us with a shorter hike
on the last day, and a hike that was mainly downhill (I liked the sound
of that).
 
 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iminstant/9726532210/"
title="P9080181 by flyboytyler, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5481/9726532210_62eb8dba48.jpg"
width="500" height="375" alt="P9080181"></a>
 
 Steady work was made on day 3, and we
decided to continue up the final hill.  I think my Dad summed up the
Drumnadrochit hill the best, when he called it the "Fuck Me Hill",
whenever you thought you'd reach the top you'd say "fuck me"
as you got to the peak, to find out you still had another one to go.  We
finished day 3 at the bottom of Abriachan Forest, with the last major hill
completed, and a much shorter hike planned for Day 4.
 
 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iminstant/9726538788/"
title="P9080200 by flyboytyler, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7325/9726538788_18b58ba81c.jpg"
width="500" height="375" alt="P9080200"></a>
 
 Day 4 picked up from where we left off
at the Abriachan Forest
 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iminstant/9723344751/"
title="IMG_2171 by flyboytyler, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7327/9723344751_e866ca8006.jpg"
width="500" height="334" alt="IMG_2171"></a>
 
 We arrived on the outskirts of Inverness
to a slight downpour of rain that lasted about 15 minutes, and cleared
up as we were about 1/2 a mile from the end of the hike.  Our legs
were sore, some socks were soaked with blood, but we had made it, we had
completed the hike!  More importantly we had just raised some money
for a really good cause.
 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iminstant/9723380511/"
title="IMG_2252 by flyboytyler, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7428/9723380511_5dcb93aa3c.jpg"
width="500" height="334" alt="IMG_2252"></a>
 
 Although we're still waiting for a few
more donations to come in, the Three Generations team raised approximately
$10,129, when you combine this with the amount also raised by the Domino
Danderers, it gets our combined total to a whopping $28,014.63
 
 So there was also another part to trying
to raise additional donations, apart from wearing a kilt and pith helmet,
I had also agreed to do a Harlem shake video if we could get my fund raising
amount up to $5k, and it appears that people were as eager to see that
as they were to see me in a kilt (I have no idea why).  So if you
have sponsored us, you may watch this, if you watch this, and even laugh
a little bit and don't <a href="http://www.justgiving.com/teams/KingTyler"
title="click here" target=_new>click here</a> to sponsor
us, then all I will say is Karma can be a bitch and may you sleep uncomfortably
at night.
 <iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/74356840"
width="500" height="281" frameborder="0"
webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
<a href="http://vimeo.com/74356840">Harlem Shake
Great Glen Way Fundraiser</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/flyboytyler">Carl
Tyler</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.
 
 For fun, we also made this:
 <iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/74529638"
width="500" height="281" frameborder="0"
webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
<a href="http://vimeo.com/74529638">Three Generations
- "I would Walk 500 Miles" for Iain Rennie Hospice</a>
from <a href="http://vimeo.com/richtyler">rich_A_tyler</a>
on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.
 
 
 <a href="http://www.justgiving.com/teams/KingTyler"
title="SPONSOR US" target=_new>SPONSOR
US!</a>
 
 
 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iminstant/9787320092/"
title="Three Generations and support team by flyboytyler, on Flickr"><img
src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2884/9787320092_1562fee88e.jpg"
width="500" height="304" alt="Three Generations
and support team"></a>
 The entire team, plus support team of
Ron and Sonya Tyler.
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:49:54 +0500</pubDate>
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<category>Charity Walk</category>
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<title>Creating a customer service web application using Sametime</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This article seemed to get published without
even a squeak.  William Holmes and Brendan Murray of IBM Ireland have
create a 3 piece article posted to the Sametime Wiki for building a customer
service web ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ This article seemed to get published without
even a squeak.  William Holmes and Brendan Murray of IBM Ireland have
create a 3 piece article posted to the Sametime Wiki for building a customer
service web application.
 
 <a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/dx/Creating_a_customer_service_web_application_using__Sametime_-_Part_One"
title="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/dx/Creating_a_customer_service_web_application_using__Sametime_-_Part_One"
target=_new>http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/dx/Creating_a_customer_service_web_application_using__Sametime_-_Part_One</a>
 
 The first Sametime live help system
I built was back in 2000 as an offering from a company called Virtual Village,
and for me personally it's still my preferred method for contacting companies
for assistance, and in recent years <a href="http://www.epilio.com 
" title="Epilio" target=_new>Epilio</a> have
built custom live help for customers, including custom mobile client integration
working with the Sametime Proxy server., whcih we demonstrated during our
session at IBM Connect earlier this year.
 
 This is a good article, and includes
sample code to get started.
 ]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:09:46 +0500</pubDate>
<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
<category>Sametime LiveHelp</category>
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<item>
<title>Another one speaking at IamLUG</title>
<link>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-979K8V</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Like many others I will be in St. Louis
next week, speaking at IamLUG, and Epilio
are sponsoring the Monday night drinks.  I decided not to do any really
tough presentations on Sametime, but am instead doing an updated version
of a presentation I ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Like many others I will be in St. Louis
next week, speaking at <a href="http://iamlug.org/iamlug/IamLug2013.nsf"
title="IamLUG" target=_new>IamLUG</a>, and <a
href="http://www.epilio.com" title="Epilio" target=_new>Epilio</a>
are sponsoring the Monday night drinks.  I decided not to do any really
tough presentations on Sametime, but am instead doing an updated version
of a presentation I first did at UKLUG "25 Years of Lotus and Still
Going Strong" which contains lots of demos of old Lotus products.
 As usual, I'll probably have some old freebies to give away.  
 
 If you've not already registered yourself,
you better get on it.
 ]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:41:18 +0500</pubDate>
<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<category>None</category>
</item>
<item>
<title>Fat man walking...all for a good cause.</title>
<link>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-94TS27</link>
<description><![CDATA[ It's time for you to reach into your pockets
and sponsor me.  Perhaps you've used our free plug-ins, perhaps you've
used our free Sametime admin tools, it's time to pay up.  Now it's
not like that crazy sponsorship thing where all I had to do was ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
<comments>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-94TS27</comments>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ It's time for you to reach into your pockets
and sponsor me.  Perhaps you've used our free plug-ins, perhaps you've
used our free Sametime admin tools, it's time to pay up.  Now it's
not like that crazy sponsorship thing where all I had to do was shave my
head and paint my face blue, this one actually involves some serious preparation
and training. We managed to raise close to $3,000 dollars for the head
shave, so really hoping people will delve deep for this effort to smash
that amount.
 
 In May along with a number of friends,
I will be taking part in the Domino Dander for Dosh.  The hike will
take place in May, and involves hiking from one side of Scotland* to the
other along the Great Glen way, which is 80 miles over 4 days.  I
will not be along, there is a team of us doing it.
 
 It's all for a a very worthy cause and
is the Children's Hospice Association Scotland, currently my donation page
shows zero donations, which lets face it, is embarrassing.  So please
please sponsor me, if you don't want to support the charity, just think
of the pain I will be in after walking 80 miles in 4 days, and the pleasure
you will get from knowing I am in such pain, surely that is worth something?
 
 My individual sponsorship page is here:
 <a href="http://www.justgiving.com/Carl-Tyler"
title="http://www.justgiving.com/Carl-Tyler" target=_new>http://www.justgiving.com/Carl-Tyler</a>
 
 You can find out more about the charity,
our route and the team of hikers here:
 <a href="http://slightlydoolally.com/d4d/"
title="http://slightlydoolally.com/d4d/" target=_new>http://slightlydoolally.com/d4d/</a>
 
 Thank you for your support, every little
bit helps.!
 
 * All travel expenses are met by myself,
no sponsorship money is used towards anything but the CHAS charity.
 
 UPDATE: I have agreed with a
friend, that if I raise more than 2k I will do the hike in a Kilt and Pith
helmet.
 ]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:29:01 +0500</pubDate>
<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
<category>Domino Dander</category>
</item>
<item>
<title>An overview of the Plantronics Calisto 620</title>
<link>https://www.iminstant.com/iminstant/iminstant.nsf/d6plinks/CTYR-94THRL</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Similar to the other post earlier today,
this overview is of the Plantronics Calisto ... ]]></description>
<dc:creator>Carl Tyler</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Similar to the other post earlier today,
this overview is of the Plantronics Calisto 620
 
 <iframe width="500" height="281"
src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/e4gLytzXhT0" frameborder="0"
allowfullscreen></iframe>
 ]]></content:encoded>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:25:43 +0500</pubDate>
<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
<category>None</category>
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