Google Chrome file download-esk history in Lotus Notes – please
Thu, Sep 8th 2011 12:11a Chris Sparshott I look at my email and see an attachment. I know I will be working with the attached document so I choose to download it to “My Documents”
Later in the day I want to access the attachment from the file in “My Documents” folder how do I do it?
Well, I have two options,
1. Find the original email and open the attachment from there then save it in the right folder in My Documents.
2. Navigate to My Documents and launch the file from there.
I would like the Google Chrome [read] Keywords: lotus
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200,000 New Zealand children living in poverty
Tue, Sep 6th 2011 11:12p Chris Sparshott 200,000 New Zealand children living in poverty. ..KidsCan
That is a pretty bizarre statistic from Kidscan a charity in NZ which is funding breakfasts in schools for underprivileged kids.
I have been reading a bit about social entrepreneurship and rather then have a model where the population donates cash to the charity is there a way to make schools self sufficient whereby they can fund breakfasts for all their pupils without intervention from charities.
I don’t have a killer idea ot [read] Keywords:
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Multiple folders
Mon, Sep 5th 2011 10:11p Chris Sparshott I need to send out a bunch of pdf files to my customers. I need multiple folders to manage the correspondence and information (attachments) with these customers.
1. I generate a pdf from our software renewal system.
2. I then create a folder for the month that the renewal is due.
3. Then I create a sub-folder for the name of the customer under the renewal month.
4. Once done I create an email folder with the name of the customer.
I want
1. Basically, when I create a folder in Windows Explore [read] Keywords: ajax
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Build Challenge – Corporates JOIN IN!
Mon, Sep 5th 2011 4:11p Chris Sparshott Please check out our new initiative, The Habitat Build Challenge. Build houses and improve lives.
Build Challenge Flyer Corporate Generic [read] Keywords:
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Watson Versus Milo
Wed, Aug 31st 2011 3:09p Chris Sparshott While looking at the ibm.com web site and the next phase of the Watson super computer to help the health industry I thought more along the lines of how Watson becomes more human. Although not really “more human” just the perception of being human.
Where do you go with these sort of questions on the net, well TED of course. After a very very quick search a very interesting video about Milo the virtual 11 year old boy struck me as having great parallels to Watson (a some level).
[read] Keywords: ibm
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Habitat for Humanity – Day of Service
Wed, Jun 15th 2011 5:12p Chris Sparshott Today IBM is 100 Years old.
If IBM was British he or she would be getting a signed card from the Queen to mark the special occasion.
IBM did something bigger and bolder. Every employee had the opportunity to do one day of service in their community. That’s all 300,000+ employees around the world get the opportunity to help out.
Sure, some think it’s just a way that the corporation get free advertising and brand awareness. While this is no doubt true it misses the point.
My empl [read] Keywords: ibm
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Home entertainment debate
Mon, Jun 6th 2011 11:14p Chris Sparshott Our current TV is 10 years old, you turn it on and wait for the valves to warm up and the mice to wake up and start running on their tread mill before a dull picture attempts to illuminate the chaos that is our living room.
If fair to say that the picture is as sharp as a dull spoon and as illuminating as a black and white rainbow.
After much discussion with the wife, neighbours and colleagues we decided upon a Sony CX520, 32″. Why? It was a TV that will hopefully be current for 3-5 year [read] Keywords: desktop
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Skills Assessment
Mon, Jun 6th 2011 6:13p Chris Sparshott I have just run through my skills assessment as part of my job here at IBM. For the Social Media glitterati you will be heartened to know that social media is a skill that is assessed.It’s great that the company veiws these skills as important and having an impact on the ability of employees to perform their jobs. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Dental floss with suction cup
Sun, May 29th 2011 5:09p Chris Sparshott Just got back from the dentisit perhaps my most hated activity in a given year. The dentist gave my teeth a good clean which involved a fair bit of mouth rinsing and blood spitting. He did say that now is the time to start flossing as the plaque form my teeth has pretty been scraped off kicking and screaming.
As a lazy thoughtless person I forget things, so product design gurus in the sky please design me a floss holder with a suction cup so the floss can scream in my face every time [read] Keywords:
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How to make a Pivot table
Mon, May 2nd 2011 10:11p Chris Sparshott In my current job as a software renewals sales person I work with spreadsheets for large chunks of the day. In an effort to try and get a bit more productive I have started to get to grips with pivot tables. Here is a video I found on how to create a simple pivot table, I thought it quite useful.
How to Make a Pivot Table in Excel [read] Keywords: application
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Feeling Starry Eyed
Sun, May 1st 2011 2:10p Chris Sparshott Just had a listen to this track after reading an article in the telegraph - can you believe that! I guess music recommendations come from lots of places these days. enjoy. [read] Keywords:
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Modernising USSR
Wed, Apr 27th 2011 9:10p Chris Sparshott In an earlier post I was looking for a template to plan for three years. I stumbled across this very interesting presentation on modernising the USSR during the time of Stalin. While everyone would agree the human costs were extreme the results are fairly interesting and clearly a good overview of macro level business management.
Stalin's 5 Year Plans
View more presentations from ccarter333 [read] Keywords: application
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Hello world!
Tue, Apr 26th 2011 6:08p Chris Sparshott Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! [read] Keywords: blogging
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Three year plan
Tue, Apr 26th 2011 6:08p Chris Sparshott This year I am going to find a mentor. I have thought about it for a while and now is the time to make the most of the opportunities that I am presented with.
One of the things I need to do is have a three year plan that has career goals and family goals. A quick search on slideshare threw up the following presentation which I have embedded here.
Really simple 3 year plan template
View more presentations from IdeasKey [read] Keywords:
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Social Software workshop in Shanghai
Mon, Nov 8th 2010 10:14p Chris Sparshott A very cool event is running in Shanghai for you social networking folk. Simon from #sy is running and chinese version of his successful ANZ workshops, would be worth a look.
[scribd id=41628337 key=key-r7g7vtqgo2m38ycaocd mode=list] [read] Keywords: networking
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Taxi pen holder – cabbie scribe
Thu, Nov 4th 2010 5:27p Chris Sparshott The concierge from the Intercontinental opens the taxi door to allow me to step in unhindered. For a moment I wonder whether I should tip and then realise that I don’t have any Australian money to hand – oh well I am just another tight POM.
I buckle up and the taxi starts off on the way to the airport. I noticed the taxi driver’s pen holder.
I have been in ‘000s on taxis over the years and every taxi driver has their own technique for securing a pen. The pen needs to be seen an [read] Keywords: wiki
Air New Zealand in flight entertainment – ideas
Sun, Oct 31st 2010 11:26p Chris Sparshott Just got off an Air New Zealand flight from Auckland to Sydney on the worlds favourite airline although when you drive out of Sydney airport you can’t help but notice that there are multiple billboards saying that Malaysia air is the worlds favourite airline – confused!
I was watching a couple of movies on the plane and I started and stopped a few that I initially thought were good but turned out to be a bit pants.
I would like to be able to rate a film e.g. from one star to five sta [read] Keywords: application
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Which food is not fastfood
Mon, Oct 18th 2010 8:31p Chris Sparshott I am sat in Auckland airport waiting for my flight to Sydney. I had a cheeky burger from burger king ) and then sat and pondered which food was not packaged as a fastfood. Currently we have….
Burgers
Buritos
Sandwiches
Curry
Fish and chips
Roasts of all varieties
Pizza
And lots more…
I was thinking is there are market for more fast food?
Creme Brulee
Wichetty Grubs
Pigs trotters & Sheeps brains
Maybe there is a niche in the market for Aborigines Farmers take away – [read] Keywords:
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Get your web Site from Certus
Fri, Oct 15th 2010 6:27p Chris Sparshott Certus Solutions an IBM Business Partner of Honda Australia fame are running a marketing campaign around Web site develoment and customer interaction. Check out their bumf below and give them a ring!
Websites for you! Certus Solutions [read] Keywords: ibm
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Car Chase
Thu, Oct 14th 2010 6:30p Chris Sparshott I am not sure what I expected when I saw this video. The maker of the video Ben Pluimer says
Last year I interviewed for a TV job, and they asked me if I had ever directed or shot car chases. I said yes, went home, shot this, and sent it back to them.
I didn’t get the job.
My car chase from Ben Pluimer on Vimeo. [read] Keywords:
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Auckland Cafe: federal and wolfe
Thu, Oct 14th 2010 6:30p Chris Sparshott You work in Auckland CBD and you want an awesome cup of coffee then there is really only one place to go - federal and wolfe. The cafe is on the old spot of the restaurant called RICE. Unfortuntaely RICE fell by the wayside which is great for connoisours of coffee. The beans are Kokako fair trade organic, the barrister is specalur and the amiance friendly and conjinial. Lots of suits from ANZ, Gen-i and IBM and if you can stand that go have a tipple it will be worth it. Regular drinkers gi [read] Keywords: ibm
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Building a Smarter Government
Wed, Oct 6th 2010 7:29p Chris Sparshott Lots in the news around coucils and government efficiencies so I thought I would post this presentation. It shows some case studies and references.
Building a Smarter Government [read] Keywords: application
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Brochure WebSphere Portal v7
Wed, Oct 6th 2010 7:29p Chris Sparshott With the release of WebSphere Portal v7 comes brochures and documentation. I quite like the new portal brochure as it looks at supporting technologies and capailities for any web presense. Take a look below..
Web Experience using WebSphere Portal [read] Keywords: application
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How do groups get anything done?
Wed, Oct 6th 2010 6:28p Chris Sparshott Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration – TED 2010
- Watch more Tech Videos at Vodpod.
My thoughts are that collaboration systems need to be engineered so that 20% are hired as employees and 80% of contributors are not employees. These non-employees account for 25% of the value to the system and it not available to corporations. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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How to share snapshots in Amazon EC2 – for Prospero
Mon, Sep 20th 2010 6:25p Chris Sparshott How to share snapshots
Snapshots can be shared using AWS Management Console or using API calls. You have full control over what accounts you share each snapshot with, including the option to share it with the entire AWS community.
AWS Management Console:
Create a new Amazon EBS volume and copy only the files that you wish to share on to that volume
Log in to the AWS Management Console, click the Amazon EC2 tab and click Volumes on the left navigation pane
Right click on the volume [read] Keywords: community
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Which CSS Framework?
Mon, Sep 20th 2010 6:25p Chris Sparshott Just checking out this article about which CSS framework to use.
I will trial the following:
Blueprint
Elasticss
Tripoli
960
52 (html5 and css3)
I am wondering if these will work well in WebSphere Portal v7. [read] Keywords: ibm
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The philosophy of bokardo
Fri, Aug 20th 2010 12:31p Chris Sparshott Looking at Empathic design and came across bokardo and his philosophy which I quite liked.
Five principles guide my design philosophy
The Experience belongs to the user.
Technology serves humans.
Design is not Art.
Great design is invisible.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. [read] Keywords:
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How to think about creating a web design
Fri, Aug 20th 2010 12:31p Chris Sparshott Another great presentation to start folks thinking why create a website and who is the website aimed at. We need to do more thinking around this area especially as xPages, JS, dojo et al provide functionality to build better user experiences.
Building a website, McGill Course
View more presentations from pinny gniwisch. [read] Keywords: xpages application
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What does the Lotus community stand for? (#LotusLove)
Thu, Aug 19th 2010 11:28p Chris Sparshott Q: What does the Lotus community stand for?
A: Its a bunch of people that use software products created by IBM to deliver collaboration solutions.
Now try and answer the question after watching the video below.
Jamie Oliver Introduces the OpenIDEO Challenge / OpenIDEO.com from IDEO on Vimeo.
Q: What does the Lotus community stand for?
What are people in the Lotus community passionate about? What do they want to achieve in their lives and how will Lotus help then do that? I’m intereste [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Web design and buttons
Thu, Aug 19th 2010 12:28p Chris Sparshott I really liked some of the slides in this presentation. Especially the slide 10 showing which section of the screen gets the most user attention.
Tips to SuperCharge Your Buttons
View more presentations from Performable. [read] Keywords: application
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Lotus Business Partners in Auckland
Tue, Aug 17th 2010 8:28p Chris Sparshott Yesterday I was asked who were the Lotus Business Partners in Auckland. Here are the partners as I understand it…
Certus:
http://www.certussolutions.com/wps/wcm/connect/w3eos/Website/
Crossware
http://www.crossware.co.nz/websites/crossware/web20.nsf/page/PGRM-5LDV8T
Convergence
http://www.convergence.co.nz/
Certus: http://www.certussolutions.com/wps/wcm/connect/w3eos/Website/
Crossware http://www.crossware.co.nz/websites/crossware/web20.nsf/page/PGRM-5LDV8T
Convergence http://www.c [read] Keywords: lotus
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Dojo FadeIn, FadeOut, Modify Content, Simple JSON
Mon, Aug 16th 2010 9:31p Chris Sparshott The scenario:
I want a user to click on a menu item e.g. 1.0 Introduction and an area of a web page to update with a piece of content. I also wanted to pull that content into the webpage using JSON and AJAX.
The menu item in the HTML page:
1.0 Introduction
The id allows me to mange this areas of the screen from a piece of dojo javascript
The code to fade out the current content in between the DIV tags, modify the content and then fade in the new content in.
function getIntroductionConten [read] Keywords: ajax
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Thank you Ferris Bueller
Wed, Aug 11th 2010 1:28p Chris Sparshott Nothing on TV but not in the mood to read a book I turn to youtube for entertainment and snippets from Ferris Bueller’s day off – awesome. [read] Keywords: application
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Discussion on Domino futures
Tue, Aug 10th 2010 9:28p Chris Sparshott A bunch of the folks on the xPages training were sat around in IBM Auckland chatting about some areas of focus that would help the Domino value case, in no particular order here are some thoughts:
(Domino) applications store
Domino Express (free) similar to WAS CE – free for 5 users
Domino wont ever product a best of breed application so chose a business application such as CRM and focus on making it the runtime of choice for those apps.
Provide multi-tenancy capability (or keep it as it [read] Keywords: domino
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AD111 – recommended reading for the xPages Advanced training
Tue, Aug 10th 2010 8:28p Chris Sparshott Just attending the xPages Advanced training delivered by Stephan Wissel and he recommends having a look at this presentation. Its been posted to slideshare already and I thought I would share here.
AD111 — Harnessing the Power of Server-Side JavaScript and Other Advanced XPage Techniques
View more presentations from ddrschiw. [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Follow your dreams, great article in Hacker monthly
Tue, Aug 10th 2010 12:27p Chris Sparshott I was just uploading a bunch of documents on scribd some of which are on this blog site e.g. WebRadar. I stumbled across Hacker monthly and had a quick flick through. There is an article by Jason Schuller which I found really inspirational about following your dreams and be financially independent. Definitely worth a read if you are a bit of a geek and have thought about being more creative in your day to day job.
Hacker Monthly – issue 3 [read] Keywords: application
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