If youre thinking of implementing DAOS, do this first...
Wed, Feb 10th 2010 4:56p Chris Whisonant Actually, you may want to consider running this on your servers this weekend if you havent already implemented DAOS. Get it out of the way... :)br /ibr /load compact mail -c -ZU/i - While youre at it, throw in thei -v -n/i switches too to enable body and design compression. And make sure that youve enabled these settings in the advanced properties tab of the templates so that the compression options do not get turned back off by the design task.br /br /You should no longer use the i-ZU/i switch [read] Keywords: ibm
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Easy Way To Manage ACL or Advanced Properties For a Folder (SNTT)
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:58a Chris Whisonant One of the nice tricks with the Domino Administrator Client Files tab is the ability to update ACLs and properties for all databases in a folder and sub-folders. To do this, just right-click the folder and choose from the list of available options. Such as Access Control gt; Manage:br / a href=https://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/lotusnut/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/manageacl-1.png target=_blankimg alt=image src=https://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/lotusnut/resource/BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES/manageacl [read] Keywords: acl
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ikeyman Not Allowing 2048 bit keysize
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:58a Chris Whisonant Earlier today I was renewing the SSL certificate for BleedYellows IHS server. But I ran into a slight issue in that the IBM SSL Key Management utility (ikeyman) was only giving me the choice of 512 or 1024 bit key length. But now, 2 years later (wow, time flies!), GoDaddy requires 2048 or 4096 bit requests and does not accept a 1024 bit request. This is good to know, for sure! After a quick use of my google-fu, I was able to find a href=http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21304144th [read] Keywords: ibm
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How To Speed Up Your Domino Server And Reduce Corruption
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:58a Chris Whisonant This is definitely an age-old recommendation, but it is something that most customers have problems with. OS-level Antivirus. IBM has finally published a technote (1417504) a href=http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21417504Recommendations for exclusions when running Operation (sic) System Antivirus/a. This will definitely be handy to be able to show a customer direct instructions from IBM and not quot;justquot; recommendations from a third party (who sees this all the time). img [read] Keywords: domino
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Don't forget to update transaction logging format in 8.5
Fri, Sep 25th 2009 12:00p Chris Whisonant For Domino 8.5 + there is a new notes.ini setting to create i/o optimized transaction logs for platforms with a block size different than the default 512 bytes. The notes.ini variable is: Create_R85_Log=1. With notes.ini variables, also make sure you're using the Configuration Document to set these instead of directly in the notes.ini. [read] Keywords: document
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How Do I Find Info On Notes and Domino Fixpacks?
Tue, Sep 1st 2009 10:40a Chris Whisonant After the release of Notes and Domino 8.5 Fixpack 1, there has been some concern expressed over customers and partners not being able to see the fixes at the devWorks fixlist site. If you go there currently, you can see the following releases listed: Notice that there are not any SPR's listed as fixed for 8.0.2 FP1, 8.0.2 FP2, 8.0.2 IFR1, 8.5 FP1, or 8.5 IFR1. But there is a way to see what you need for your upgrade planning. You need to navigate to a somewhat hidden "notices" view at this UR [read] Keywords: document
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Another Notes Client Goodie for 8.5.1
Wed, Aug 26th 2009 3:17p Chris Whisonant Another great addition for Notes Client usability is an easier way for users to create hyperlinks! Finally there is a quick way to do this! Previously, you would have to go through several menu levels or remember ALT+C+H+L and then fill in a properties box that may be confusing for the casual user. But in 8.5.1, this should be easier to accomplish. After selecting the text you would like to use for the link, you can either choose the Create > Hyperlink menu item: Or you can choose a tool [read] Keywords: lotus
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Some Notes Client Goodies for 8.5.1
Wed, Aug 26th 2009 9:57a Chris Whisonant There are two quick things I would like to highlight with the Lotus Notes 8.5.1 Client that's currently in beta. First of all is the ability to resize table columns from the rich text editor. I love using the "Copy Selected as Table" from within views and then pasting the table into a new memo. Then I like to do some formatting - which would always involve resizing the columns. With 8.5.0 and earlier, when I would want to do this I would have to open the Table Properties and then resize each ce [read] Keywords: lotus
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Are your users able to do too much in Notes?
Tue, Aug 18th 2009 2:49p Chris Whisonant A little known ECL setting for Domino is "". Adding this in as an entry to the ECL will allow you to control exactly what the workstation user can do with code signed as himself and running on the workstation. More information can be found here. Recently I have seen where -Default- has allowed all of the methods (please, do NOT have your ECL configured this way!!!) and when it was previously removed in testing the users were prompted to add ECL entries for themselves when opening folders (or doi [read] Keywords: domino
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Folder Unread Marks for iNotes in 8.5.1!
Mon, Aug 10th 2009 1:35p Chris Whisonant This blog post from the Notes Design Blog by Mary Beth Raven states that unread marks will now work for iNotes folders with 8.5.1 (along with automatic inbox refreshing)! This is something that I've been wanting to see since I first used iNotes in Domino 6.0. Actually, back at both Lotusphere 2003 and 2004 the company I was working for was told by IBM that this would be coming with DWA 7. I even posted an idea for this. Thanks to IBM for finally enabling this. I can say that this was one of the [read] Keywords: domino
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Re: What does Notes 8.5 Fixpack 1 fix?
Fri, Jul 24th 2009 4:16p Chris Whisonant In response to: What does Notes 8.5 Fixpack 1 fix? Notes and Domino 8.5.0.1 (8.5 FP1) is supposed to be released this week. A preliminary fixlist has been available here for around two months now. I noticed it several weeks ago when searching for what would be in the fixpack. Gab Davis also blogged about this fixlist earlier this week. As Gab stated - there are many exciting fixes coming in this fixpack! [read] Keywords: domino
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Some Downtime Wednesday Evening
Tue, Jun 23rd 2009 1:58p Chris Whisonant Tomorrow evening (Wednesday, June 24, 2009) we will have some downtime on almost all of the BleedYellow servers. This includes the Connections and Sametime servers. It's a planned, routine maintenance outage to load some fixes, etc... Thanks! [read] Keywords: connections
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How Google Killed Old Yeller!
Thu, Jun 18th 2009 8:59a Chris Whisonant As many of you may know, we have had a problem with Dogear here for a while. At one point, I started referring to it as Old Yeller (could not resist the dead dog/yellow reference - sorry). After doing a lot of upgrades (to IHS/WAS/Connections), DB troubleshooting, completely deleting the DB (which has since been restored), enabling advanced Windows logging (which did not help much), even moving to a fresh VM with a clean install of WAS, maintenance, etc..., nothing seemed to work. In all the cra [read] Keywords: connections
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A Note for BleedYellow Bloggers
Wed, Jun 10th 2009 3:54p Chris Whisonant To all of our wonderful bloggers here, you are probably aware of the issues we have been working through with Dogear. This has the potential to make your blog appear unresponsive when Dogear hangs before automagically restarting itself. Before it would just die, now it restarts. If you have the "Dogear Bookmarks" available in your blog template, then this is what causes your blog to take a while to load sometimes. If this gets too irritating for you, you can modify your template to simply disabl [read] Keywords: dogear
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DAOS Confusion!
Fri, Jun 5th 2009 2:14p Chris Whisonant Or: Can I DAOSify a Server With < 8.5 Clients? Recently I have had some colleagues and clients asking about updating a Domino Server to 8.5 and turning on DAOS while still running a mix of 6 and 7 Notes Clients. There is some confusion related to some upgrade seminars that are happening that appear to be using this slideshow. Here is slide 18 that is causing some confusion: The last bullet is causing confusion. Of course "Domino 6 and 7 clients will not recognize DAOS" - even the 8.0.x cli [read] Keywords: domino
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Update On Dogear
Tue, May 12th 2009 8:40a Chris Whisonant As many of you know, we have been having some issues with Dogear here and working with IBM. As we have upgraded, moved, and tried all kinds of different things, it appears to have been pointing to the database as the culprit. For now, I have created a new Dogear db to see if this is the problem. I have a full backup of the db from last night, and if it turns out that the DB was not the problem, then I will restore that backup. Sorry for the inconvenience - we have tried a lot of things for many [read] Keywords: dogear
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When IBM Meets Star Trek
Tue, May 12th 2009 6:15a Chris Whisonant Just thought I would remind everyone out there about the webadmin logo that IBM has been using over the years. Funny how close the 7.0 Beta 4 was to the actual Star Trek logo with the starship in the center. It was changed for the 7.0 GOLD release. So, I wonder what IBM is trying to say about administrators?? By the way, I'm hoping to go see the new movie this week! [read] Keywords: ibm
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When IBM Meets Star Trek
Mon, May 11th 2009 7:15p Chris Whisonant Just thought I would remind everyone out there about the webadmin logo that IBM has been using over the years. Funny how close the 7.0 Beta 4 was to the actual Star Trek logo with the starship in the center. It was changed for the 7.0 GOLD release. So, I wonder what IBM is trying to say about administrators?? By the way, I&os;m hoping to go see the new movie this week! [read] Keywords: ibm
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Updated DAOS Estimator
Wed, Apr 29th 2009 12:48p Chris Whisonant On April 16, 2009, IBM released version 1.4 of the DAOS estimator. I like some of the new options. They are: -i option allows the estimator to run on an indirect file which contains a list of databases to run against. -c options causes the estimator to write attachment data to a CSV file for later processing. This is up to 65% faster to acquire data. -a option analyzes a CSV file created with the -c option. This option can also be used to analyze a set of CSV files using an &os;.ind&os [read] Keywords: domino
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Updated DAOS Estimator
Wed, Apr 29th 2009 9:13a Chris Whisonant On April 16, 2009, IBM released version 1.4 of the DAOS estimator. I like some of the new options. They are: -i option allows the estimator to run on an indirect file which contains a list of databases to run against. -c options causes the estimator to write attachment data to a CSV file for later processing. This is up to 65% faster to acquire data. -a option analyzes a CSV file created with the -c option. This option can also be used to analyze a set of CSV files using an '.ind' file to list [read] Keywords: domino
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Updated DAOS Estimator
Tue, Apr 28th 2009 10:13p Chris Whisonant On April 16, 2009, IBM released version 1.4 of the DAOS estimator. I like some of the new options. They are: -i option allows the estimator to run on an indirect file which contains a list of databases to run against. -c options causes the estimator to write attachment data to a CSV file for later processing. This is up to 65% faster to acquire data. -a option analyzes a CSV file created with the -c option. This option can also be used to analyze a set of CSV files using an &os;.ind&os [read] Keywords: domino
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The 'Tuner Blog
Tue, Mar 31st 2009 3:48p Chris Whisonant Nope, I&os;m not talking about a blog for people into fast and furious 4 bangers (no offense to 4 banger drivers - like myself - who aren&os;t fast or furious). I&os;m talking about the new blog that IBMer Scott O&os;Keefe has started related to the Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT). You should go check it out at &os;Tuner Blog. The first post is related to the "Check for Updates" option that&os;s available with the template in which you can get the latest template from I [read] Keywords: domino
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The 'Tuner Blog
Tue, Mar 31st 2009 12:10p Chris Whisonant Nope, I'm not talking about a blog for people into fast and furious 4 bangers (no offense to 4 banger drivers - like myself - who aren't fast or furious). I'm talking about the new blog that IBMer Scott O'Keefe has started related to the Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT). You should go check it out at 'Tuner Blog. The first post is related to the "Check for Updates" option that's available with the template in which you can get the latest template from IBM as well as the latest updates to the ru [read] Keywords: domino
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The 'Tuner Blog
Tue, Mar 31st 2009 1:10a Chris Whisonant Nope, I&os;m not talking about a blog for people into fast and furious 4 bangers (no offense to 4 banger drivers - like myself - who aren&os;t fast or furious). I&os;m talking about the new blog that IBMer Scott O&os;Keefe has started related to the Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT). You should go check it out at &os;Tuner Blog. The first post is related to the "Check for Updates" option that&os;s available with the template in which you can get the latest template from I [read] Keywords: domino
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Re: Concerns over DAOS Estimator?
Wed, Feb 25th 2009 5:54p Chris Whisonant In response to: Concerns over DAOS Estimator?Just a note - I have seen what Vitor is referring to in his comment on my initial post and have verified that there are cases where if the file name is the same as well as the size reported in the DAOS Estimator report that the files are treated as the same object by the Estimator. But after enabling DAOS on the database and compacting it, the two attachments were treated as separate objects by DAOS even though the tool did not see them as different.
[read] Keywords: ibm
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Re: Concerns over DAOS Estimator?
Wed, Feb 25th 2009 9:40a Chris Whisonant In response to: Concerns over DAOS Estimator?Just a note - I have seen what Vitor is referring to in his comment on my initial post and have verified that there are cases where if the file name is the same as well as the size reported in the DAOS Estimator report that the files are treated as the same object by the Estimator. But after enabling DAOS on the database and compacting it, the two attachments were treated as separate objects by DAOS even though the tool did not see them as different.
[read] Keywords: ibm
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Re: Concerns over DAOS Estimator?
Tue, Feb 24th 2009 10:40p Chris Whisonant In response to: Concerns over DAOS Estimator?Just a note - I have seen what Vitor is referring to in his comment on my initial post and have verified that there are cases where if the file name is the same as well as the size reported in the DAOS Estimator report that the files are treated as the same object by the Estimator. But after enabling DAOS on the database and compacting it, the two attachments were treated as separate objects by DAOS even though the tool did not see them as different.
[read] Keywords: ibm
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To enable DAOS on mail.box databases or not?
Tue, Feb 24th 2009 5:53p Chris Whisonant Paul Mooney reminded us the other week that we should do this - and I agree! Over at Vaughan Rivett&os;s blog, he&os;s discussing some of the misunderstandings surrounding DAOS. He brings up several good points, but does question whether DAOS should be enabled on mail.box files. Of course, each situation may be a little different for every environment, so it&os;s up to you to determine if you want to do this. But keep in mind that, like Vaughan states, DAOS is for any application - n [read] Keywords: notes
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Concerns over DAOS Estimator?
Tue, Feb 24th 2009 5:53p Chris Whisonant Yesterday in the Twitterverse, there were some concerns over whether the tool is accurate. I decided to do a quick test. I did notice today that there was a v1.2 of the DAOS Estimator Tool released on February 19, 2009. So I ran the latest version of this tool on a single database and I can see where the concerns may be coming into play. The concern was that the Estimator Tool was only looking at the file name to determine if the attachment was a duplicate. Here&os;s what I did to test this [read] Keywords: ibm
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To enable DAOS on mail.box databases or not?
Tue, Feb 24th 2009 3:00p Chris Whisonant Paul Mooney reminded us the other week that we should do this - and I agree! Over at Vaughan Rivett's blog, he's discussing some of the misunderstandings surrounding DAOS. He brings up several good points, but does question whether DAOS should be enabled on mail.box files. Of course, each situation may be a little different for every environment, so it's up to you to determine if you want to do this. But keep in mind that, like Vaughan states, DAOS is for any application - not just mail! If I' [read] Keywords: notes
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Concerns over DAOS Estimator?
Tue, Feb 24th 2009 9:25a Chris Whisonant Yesterday in the Twitterverse, there were some concerns over whether the tool is accurate. I decided to do a quick test. I did notice today that there was a v1.2 of the DAOS Estimator Tool released on February 19, 2009. So I ran the latest version of this tool on a single database and I can see where the concerns may be coming into play. The concern was that the Estimator Tool was only looking at the file name to determine if the attachment was a duplicate. Here's what I did to test this concer [read] Keywords: ibm
bleedyellow
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To enable DAOS on mail.box databases or not?
Tue, Feb 24th 2009 4:00a Chris Whisonant Paul Mooney reminded us the other week that we should do this - and I agree! Over at Vaughan Rivett&os;s blog, he&os;s discussing some of the misunderstandings surrounding DAOS. He brings up several good points, but does question whether DAOS should be enabled on mail.box files. Of course, each situation may be a little different for every environment, so it&os;s up to you to determine if you want to do this. But keep in mind that, like Vaughan states, DAOS is for any application - n [read] Keywords: notes
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Concerns over DAOS Estimator?
Mon, Feb 23rd 2009 10:25p Chris Whisonant Yesterday in the Twitterverse, there were some concerns over whether the tool is accurate. I decided to do a quick test. I did notice today that there was a v1.2 of the DAOS Estimator Tool released on February 19, 2009. So I ran the latest version of this tool on a single database and I can see where the concerns may be coming into play. The concern was that the Estimator Tool was only looking at the file name to determine if the attachment was a duplicate. Here&os;s what I did to test this [read] Keywords: ibm
bleedyellow
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Word Bending
Fri, Feb 20th 2009 5:56p Chris Whisonant While listening to some old Toad the Wet Sprocket music this yesterday morning, I heard this line from "Nanci": "I can't believe you - you bend your words like Uri Geller's spoons"This got me thinking about the new Recovery.gov website. At the bottom left of the main page, we see this chart:This leads many to believe that this colossal spending bill is around 1/3 "tax relief". Actually, we should all take a look at this a little differently. First of all, here's a pie graph representation of the [read] Keywords: administration
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Lotus Connections 404 Error (Possible Resolution)
Sat, Feb 14th 2009 5:56p Chris Whisonant Let&os;s consider that for some reason your Connections server went down due to, say, a major power outage. Everything comes up ok except for Blogs (it could be another service as well, though) and you are getting the following error message: When I was thinking about why this could be happening, I thought that either (a) there was a key file that was open but got corrupted, or (b) hopefully I just need to clear the Blogs cache directory because of corruption there. To make a long story s [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections 404 Error (Possible Resolution)
Sat, Feb 14th 2009 1:08p Chris Whisonant Let's consider that for some reason your Connections server went down due to, say, a major power outage. Everything comes up ok except for Blogs (it could be another service as well, though) and you are getting the following error message: When I was thinking about why this could be happening, I thought that either (a) there was a key file that was open but got corrupted, or (b) hopefully I just need to clear the Blogs cache directory because of corruption there. To make a long story short, i [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections 404 Error (Possible Resolution)
Sat, Feb 14th 2009 2:08a Chris Whisonant Let&os;s consider that for some reason your Connections server went down due to, say, a major power outage. Everything comes up ok except for Blogs (it could be another service as well, though) and you are getting the following error message: When I was thinking about why this could be happening, I thought that either (a) there was a key file that was open but got corrupted, or (b) hopefully I just need to clear the Blogs cache directory because of corruption there. To make a long story s [read] Keywords: connections
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BES Logs Causing Space Problems?
Fri, Feb 13th 2009 5:53p Chris Whisonant By default, BES debug logs are enabled at installation. They are not only enabled, but they have no roll-off time specified. I have seen this cause drive space issues (not to mention performance issues associated with so many heavily fragmented small files...) To remedy this, you can open the BlackBerry Server Configuration and go to the Logging tab. From there, you will need enable the "Debug log auto-roll" and specify the number of days you wish to keep the logs in the "Debug log maximum dail [read] Keywords: notes
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BES Logs Causing Space Problems?
Fri, Feb 13th 2009 12:36p Chris Whisonant By default, BES debug logs are enabled at installation. They are not only enabled, but they have no roll-off time specified. I have seen this cause drive space issues (not to mention performance issues associated with so many heavily fragmented small files...) To remedy this, you can open the BlackBerry Server Configuration and go to the Logging tab. From there, you will need enable the "Debug log auto-roll" and specify the number of days you wish to keep the logs in the "Debug log maximum dail [read] Keywords: notes
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BES Logs Causing Space Problems?
Fri, Feb 13th 2009 1:36a Chris Whisonant By default, BES debug logs are enabled at installation. They are not only enabled, but they have no roll-off time specified. I have seen this cause drive space issues (not to mention performance issues associated with so many heavily fragmented small files...) To remedy this, you can open the BlackBerry Server Configuration and go to the Logging tab. From there, you will need enable the "Debug log auto-roll" and specify the number of days you wish to keep the logs in the "Debug log maximum dail [read] Keywords: notes
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Update on Using Scribefire With BleedYellow
Wed, Feb 11th 2009 7:55p Chris Whisonant Kieran Reid has posted a great how-to on this. I just wanted to add something to what Kieran mentioned. For the MetaWeblog API url, you must use https in order for this to work. So, please head over to Kieran&os;s blog and set this up for yourself. I just setup my blog with Scribefire, and that&os;s where I&os;m posting from. Cool UI thing in Scribefire: I copied the URL for the link above and when I clicked the "Add a link" button in Scribefire&os;s editor, the URL was automati [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Update on Using Scribefire With BleedYellow
Wed, Feb 11th 2009 4:50p Chris Whisonant Kieran Reid has posted a great how-to on this. I just wanted to add something to what Kieran mentioned. For the MetaWeblog API url, you must use https in order for this to work. So, please head over to Kieran's blog and set this up for yourself. I just setup my blog with Scribefire, and that's where I'm posting from. Cool UI thing in Scribefire: I copied the URL for the link above and when I clicked the "Add a link" button in Scribefire's editor, the URL was automatically pasted in. Nice touch. [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Update on Using Scribefire With BleedYellow
Wed, Feb 11th 2009 5:50a Chris Whisonant Kieran Reid has posted a great how-to on this. I just wanted to add something to what Kieran mentioned. For the MetaWeblog API url, you must use https in order for this to work. So, please head over to Kieran&os;s blog and set this up for yourself. I just setup my blog with Scribefire, and that&os;s where I&os;m posting from. Cool UI thing in Scribefire: I copied the URL for the link above and when I clicked the "Add a link" button in Scribefire&os;s editor, the URL was automati [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Changes With BleedYellow IM
Tue, Feb 3rd 2009 11:58p Chris Whisonant After seeing the security problems with Sametime Connect Client API that Carl Tyler blogged about over the weekend, Lotus 911 has decided to disable plug-in installation for the im.bleedyellow.com Sametime Community. Hopefully, this will be a temporary change until IBM releases a fix for this. If you experience any issues with this, please post a comment here or use the "Contact" link at the top of the page. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Changes With BleedYellow IM
Tue, Feb 3rd 2009 9:43p Chris Whisonant After seeing the security problems with Sametime Connect Client API that Carl Tyler blogged about over the weekend, Lotus 911 has decided to disable plug-in installation for the im.bleedyellow.com Sametime Community. Hopefully, this will be a temporary change until IBM releases a fix for this. If you experience any issues with this, please post a comment here or use the "Contact" link at the top of the page. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Nearly 50 Percent Savings With DAOS
Wed, Jan 28th 2009 5:51p Chris Whisonant Several people have been blogging about using the (now-corrected) DAOS estimator tool. Feel free to add your savings calculations as a comment here or post them on your own blog! Bruce Currier should be saving 49%!! I had someone ping me with his results of saving 39%! The third comment at Ed Brill&os;s post on the Estimator tool reflects a 40% savings! Almar Diehl blogged his results and will be seeing around 17% savings. As demonstrated above, your mileage may vary with the savings... A [read] Keywords: domino
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Nearly 50 Percent Savings With DAOS
Wed, Jan 28th 2009 12:42p Chris Whisonant Several people have been blogging about using the (now-corrected) DAOS estimator tool. Feel free to add your savings calculations as a comment here or post them on your own blog! Bruce Currier should be saving 49%!! I had someone ping me with his results of saving 39%! The third comment at Ed Brill's post on the Estimator tool reflects a 40% savings! Almar Diehl blogged his results and will be seeing around 17% savings. As demonstrated above, your mileage may vary with the savings... A commen [read] Keywords: domino
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How Much Space Will DAOS Save You?
Tue, Jan 20th 2009 1:59a Chris Whisonant Are you curious to see just how much space you will save with DAOS? Well, first of all, you do know what DAOS is, right? If not, here is some information. IBM has released a tool that will analyze a set of databases you specify and compare the duplicate attachments to let you know how much space you can save after enabling DAOS. Here is a document on how to use the tool. And here is another document with the information on how to download the tool. The tool can run against 6.0+ servers. So.... [read] Keywords: document
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How Much Space Will DAOS Save You?
Tue, Jan 20th 2009 12:35a Chris Whisonant Are you curious to see just how much space you will save with DAOS? Well, first of all, you do know what DAOS is, right? If not, here is some information. IBM has released a tool that will analyze a set of databases you specify and compare the duplicate attachments to let you know how much space you can save after enabling DAOS. Here is a document on how to use the tool. And here is another document with the information on how to download the tool. The tool can run against 6.0+ servers. So.... [read] Keywords: document
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Yes, I am PC
Sat, Jan 17th 2009 7:53p Chris Whisonant For those of you who have seen it, yes, I&os;m a PC. For those of you who haven&os;t - here you go! [read] Keywords: application
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Yes, I am PC
Sat, Jan 17th 2009 5:17p Chris Whisonant For those of you who have seen it, yes, I'm a PC. For those of you who haven't - here you go! [read] Keywords: application
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Stop Hacking Your NAB
Fri, Jan 16th 2009 5:52p Chris Whisonant Prior to Domino 8.5, if you wanted to enforce custom notes.ini settings or location preferences you would have to modify the design of the Desktop Policy settings form to include $Pref or $LocAll fields, respectively. I know a lot of people who have shied away from doing this because they weren&os;t "developers" and did not want to go into Designer and modify the Directory. With Domino 8.5 this has been made much simpler. Just open the Desktop Policy settings form and go to the "Custom Sett [read] Keywords: designer
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Stop Hacking Your NAB
Fri, Jan 16th 2009 10:45a Chris Whisonant Prior to Domino 8.5, if you wanted to enforce custom notes.ini settings or location preferences you would have to modify the design of the Desktop Policy settings form to include $Pref or $LocAll fields, respectively. I know a lot of people who have shied away from doing this because they weren't "developers" and did not want to go into Designer and modify the Directory. With Domino 8.5 this has been made much simpler. Just open the Desktop Policy settings form and go to the "Custom Settings" t [read] Keywords: designer
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Don't Leave Home Without It!
Wed, Jan 7th 2009 9:58a Chris Whisonant Last week I was talking with Mitch Cohen about what some of the software/utilities I use are. So here is a quick listing of my little bag of tricks -- many of these are great alternatives to "bigger" (or more bloated!) products that you have to purchase and all of them are free (except for Lotus Notes). 7-Zip -- zip software Ad-Aware -- Spyware cleaner Audacity -- for the times when you need to edit audio files. Great for creating ringtones as well! AVG Free 8.0 -- Anti-Virus CamStudio -- Scree [read] Keywords: ibm
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firefox
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office
openoffice
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Great post you should read!
Wed, Dec 31st 2008 6:51p Chris Whisonant Roland Reddekop has posted a great entry titled Mainstreaming Lotus Notes in 2009. It is well worth your read! I will leave you with his two steps that we should leave with and do now! Strategy A. There needs to be more articles put out in
mainstream publications that clearly and succinctly bring out the
feature/benefits of Notes Domino. Use of graphics, interviews, case
study examples, and convincing arguments need to communicate the
essential benefits of Notes. Emphasize that, as the world h [read] Keywords: domino
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Great post you should read!
Wed, Dec 31st 2008 1:16p Chris Whisonant Roland Reddekop has posted a great entry titled Mainstreaming Lotus Notes in 2009. It is well worth your read! I will leave you with his two steps that we should leave with and do now! Strategy A. There needs to be more articles put out in
mainstream publications that clearly and succinctly bring out the
feature/benefits of Notes Domino. Use of graphics, interviews, case
study examples, and convincing arguments need to communicate the
essential benefits of Notes. Emphasize that, as the world h [read] Keywords: domino
lotus
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Looks like Sametime 8.0.2 is available
Fri, Dec 12th 2008 7:52p Chris Whisonant While I&os;m blogging about releases, it appears that Sametime 8.0.2 is on Passport Advantage now, so if you&os;ve been waiting on 8.0.2 and some of the enhancements, go ahead and get it... Also, I&os;m not seeing that the InfoCenter has been updated yet with information, but I think it was just released as I have not seen anyone else talking about it. Finally, I&os;m not seeing any downloads for the Connect client, so they may be pushing it out. I knew it was there because a c [read] Keywords: ibm
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In the never-ending Notes 8.0.2 saga...
Fri, Dec 12th 2008 7:52p Chris Whisonant Thanks to Alan Lepofsky via twitter, I see that there is now a CCH2 available for Notes 8.0.2. Glad to see that IBM is addressing the (apparently many) issues with the Notes 8.0.2 client in a timely manner. I&os;m trying to remember back through the releases since 6.0 and I think I can only remember one or two CCH kits released to address major client issues. But at the same time, there were QMR&os;s released (the 0.x releases) which are now on around a 180 day schedule. So we now are a [read] Keywords: ibm
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Looks like Sametime 8.0.2 is available
Fri, Dec 12th 2008 11:59a Chris Whisonant While I'm blogging about releases, it appears that Sametime 8.0.2 is on Passport Advantage now, so if you've been waiting on 8.0.2 and some of the enhancements, go ahead and get it... Also, I'm not seeing that the InfoCenter has been updated yet with information, but I think it was just released as I have not seen anyone else talking about it. Finally, I'm not seeing any downloads for the Connect client, so they may be pushing it out. I knew it was there because a customer actually found it an [read] Keywords: ibm
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In the never-ending Notes 8.0.2 saga...
Fri, Dec 12th 2008 11:41a Chris Whisonant Thanks to Alan Lepofsky via twitter, I see that there is now a CCH2 available for Notes 8.0.2. Glad to see that IBM is addressing the (apparently many) issues with the Notes 8.0.2 client in a timely manner. I'm trying to remember back through the releases since 6.0 and I think I can only remember one or two CCH kits released to address major client issues. But at the same time, there were QMR's released (the 0.x releases) which are now on around a 180 day schedule. So we now are able to get hot [read] Keywords: ibm
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Free Christmas Music!
Tue, Dec 9th 2008 11:52p Chris Whisonant Over at Amazon, they are doing 25 Days of Free - a free Christmas MP3 download every day in December through Christmas day. Also, hat tip to Greg for letting me know this! There are also a couple of free Brian Setzer Christmas tracks there: Angels We Have Heard on High and Take a Break Guys. Happy Downloading... [read] Keywords:
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Using BleedYellow to Plan A Lotusphere Session
Sat, Dec 6th 2008 7:51p Chris Whisonant Mitch posted some great details on how we planned our session for Lotusphere 2009. It&os;s a great case study for how Connections can have some real-world applications. Kim Greene and I also planned our other session this way. Mac Guidera also blogged that he used Activities to plan his session. While we could have done this using other methods, using BleedYellow Activities to get this done was extremely beneficial and helped to keep us on track! [read] Keywords: connections
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Using BleedYellow to Plan A Lotusphere Session
Sat, Dec 6th 2008 1:52p Chris Whisonant Mitch posted some great details on how we planned our session for Lotusphere 2009. It's a great case study for how Connections can have some real-world applications. Kim Greene and I also planned our other session this way. Mac Guidera also blogged that he used Activities to plan his session. While we could have done this using other methods, using BleedYellow Activities to get this done was extremely beneficial and helped to keep us on track! [read] Keywords: connections
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Bailing Out Local Governments?
Tue, Nov 25th 2008 7:51p Chris Whisonant So there are now many big cities seeking bailouts from the federal government. Atlanta is one of these cities - right down the road from me. Yesterday, in his Nuze, Neal Boortz outlined a plan for how Atlanta should make some changes that would prevent them from having to worry about some of the economic problems. Many of those things can be generalized and implemented by other local governments instead of them asking for federal assistance or raising taxes. Here is a summary: - Sell off some l [read] Keywords: development
Apple Folks, help!
Fri, Nov 14th 2008 7:52p Chris Whisonant OK, iPhone support website is HORRIBLE!! First of all, the choice of only 5 "descriptions" of the problem is really poor - none allow for an actual problem with the device, only for accessories. I guess I'll be calling them later. Here's the issue I'm having - can anyone help? This is on an original iPhone 8GB that I've had almost a year, so it's still under warranty... :) Yesterday, I started getting this error message when synching my iPhone: "this iPhone cannot be synched. The file or direc [read] Keywords: apple
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Georgians: Remember to VOTE on December 2!
Thu, Nov 13th 2008 7:55p Chris Whisonant There are many pundits on both sides of the aisle watching Georgia's Senate runoff between Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss and Democrat challenger Jim Martin very closely. If you live in Georgia, like I do, then you need to make sure that you vote on or by December 2. Advance Voting will start on November 24. This site should hopefully have information soon on where you can vote early. If you need an absentee ballot, you can follow instructions here. As we currently stand, the Democrats m [read] Keywords:
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Information on Notes 8.0.2 CCH1
Wed, Nov 5th 2008 7:52p Chris Whisonant IBM Technote 7014028 has been published with details on Notes 8.0.2 CCH1. Some things to note. It appears that Smart Upgrade will need to use this string for the target client version "Release 8.0.2 CCH1". There is also a listing of the SPR&os;s that this CCH1 corrects. I&os;m also still not thrilled that this has not been released at FixCentral or at Passport Advantage. You still have to call IBM Support and open a PMR to receive this. This fact was also not documented in the Technote [read] Keywords: ibm
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Information on Notes 8.0.2 CCH1
Wed, Nov 5th 2008 8:50a Chris Whisonant IBM Technote 7014028 has been published with details on Notes 8.0.2 CCH1. Some things to note. It appears that Smart Upgrade will need to use this string for the target client version "Release 8.0.2 CCH1". There is also a listing of the SPR's that this CCH1 corrects. I'm also still not thrilled that this has not been released at FixCentral or at Passport Advantage. You still have to call IBM Support and open a PMR to receive this. This fact was also not documented in the Technote. I left feedb [read] Keywords: ibm
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Announcing Squawk: Microblogging for Domino
Tue, Nov 4th 2008 7:52p Chris Whisonant Please check out Tim&os;s blog for this exciting announcement for BleedYellow!! BAKAAAWK! Announcing Squawk: Microblogging for Domino A brand new addition to the BleedYellow portfolio is a "labs" version of a microblogging application for Domino called "Squawk".
Although it has several integration points with Lotus Connections (for
example, you do not need to register separately for this application -
you can use your existing BleedYellow credentials - and your profile
picture in Squawk i [read] Keywords: connections
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Announcing Squawk: Microblogging for Domino
Tue, Nov 4th 2008 4:49p Chris Whisonant Please check out Tim's blog for this exciting announcement for BleedYellow!! BAKAAAWK! Announcing Squawk: Microblogging for Domino A brand new addition to the BleedYellow portfolio is a "labs" version of a microblogging application for Domino called "Squawk".
Although it has several integration points with Lotus Connections (for
example, you do not need to register separately for this application -
you can use your existing BleedYellow credentials - and your profile
picture in Squawk is whate [read] Keywords: connections
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Some BleedYellow Downtime Tonight
Fri, Oct 24th 2008 8:55p Chris Whisonant In order to patch the guest and host servers with the newest critical Windows patch, we will have some brief downtime for all of the BleedYellow components tonight (that also includes Sametime...) This will occur sometime around 9PM Eastern. Thanks! [read] Keywords: sametime
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Some BleedYellow Downtime Tonight
Fri, Oct 24th 2008 4:07p Chris Whisonant In order to patch the guest and host servers with the newest critical Windows patch, we will have some brief downtime for all of the BleedYellow components tonight (that also includes Sametime...) This will occur sometime around 9PM Eastern. Thanks! [read] Keywords: sametime
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Interesting Issue With Mail Moves and ODS48
Wed, Oct 22nd 2008 8:52p Chris Whisonant Recently I have run into an issue with moving users (specifically the "Accelerated Create Replica" AdminP request) from 7.x or earlier to 8.x servers. The new replica that gets created on the 8.x server is not at ODS48. The CREATE_R8_DATABASES=1 setting is correct on all servers. I have checked with IBM and this is similar to an internal technote. So, in the meantime, I have whipped up some code to find databases not at ODS48, dump them into an Indirect File, and run a compact -v -n -c on them [read] Keywords: adminp
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Interesting Issue With Mail Moves and ODS48
Wed, Oct 22nd 2008 3:05p Chris Whisonant Recently I have run into an issue with moving users (specifically the "Accelerated Create Replica" AdminP request) from 7.x or earlier to 8.x servers. The new replica that gets created on the 8.x server is not at ODS48. The CREATE_R8_DATABASES=1 setting is correct on all servers. I have checked with IBM and this is similar to an internal technote. So, in the meantime, I have whipped up some code to find databases not at ODS48, dump them into an Indirect File, and run a compact -v -n -c on them [read] Keywords: adminp
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IBM Soliciting Feedback on Domino Policies
Mon, Oct 20th 2008 9:51p Chris Whisonant At the official IBM Domino Blog, Andrea Waugh-Metzger has asked for feedback on how you use (or don&os;t use) Domino Policies. Here are the questions that you should go answer: So, policies can really help make your administrative life much, much
easier and can help you control a significant portion of your
environment. So let me ask you a couple questions... Do you use policies in your organization today? If so, how do you have them implemented? Is it by OU? By groups of users? O [read] Keywords: domino
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IBM Soliciting Feedback on Domino Policies
Mon, Oct 20th 2008 11:26a Chris Whisonant At the official IBM Domino Blog, Andrea Waugh-Metzger has asked for feedback on how you use (or don't use) Domino Policies. Here are the questions that you should go answer: So, policies can really help make your administrative life much, much
easier and can help you control a significant portion of your
environment. So let me ask you a couple questions... Do you use policies in your organization today? If so, how do you have them implemented? Is it by OU? By groups of users? Or just [read] Keywords: domino
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5 Years Ago
Thu, Oct 16th 2008 10:52p Chris Whisonant Our wonderful daughter was born!! I can't believe that it's been 5 years... She's growing up way too fast too. Happy Birthday Emma Grace!!!! Then Now [read] Keywords:
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Notice a similarity?
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 8:52p Chris Whisonant I&os;ve been meaning to post this for a while. I noticed that at around the same time I started seeing the new design for Notes 8.0.2 and 8.5 startup improvements that something very similar also started happening when logging into Gmail. Does it look familiar to you as well? [read] Keywords: notes
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Notice a similarity?
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 8:48a Chris Whisonant I've been meaning to post this for a while. I noticed that at around the same time I started seeing the new design for Notes 8.0.2 and 8.5 startup improvements that something very similar also started happening when logging into Gmail. Does it look familiar to you as well? [read] Keywords: notes
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Re: Another problem with the document table map property
Tue, Oct 14th 2008 11:52p Chris Whisonant In response to: Another problem with the document table map propertyChad, thanks for posting this information that I&os;ve personally seen happen (unfortunately it was on a NAB!). Thanks for letting us all know that this particular issue with the "Optimize document table map" property should be fixed in 8.0.3. Does this seem to happen more when the database is replicated with pre-8.0.2 servers? It seems that some of the customers in the forum (and my client as well) saw this issue when the d [read] Keywords: document
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Re: Another problem with the document table map property
Tue, Oct 14th 2008 9:56p Chris Whisonant In response to: Another problem with the document table map propertyChad, thanks for posting this information that I've personally seen happen (unfortunately it was on a NAB!). Thanks for letting us all know that this particular issue with the "Optimize document table map" property should be fixed in 8.0.3. Does this seem to happen more when the database is replicated with pre-8.0.2 servers? It seems that some of the customers in the forum (and my client as well) saw this issue when the database [read] Keywords: document
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ESV Study Bible Out This Week
Sat, Oct 11th 2008 10:51p Chris Whisonant The ESV Study Bible is now available for purchase online. It hit the stores on Wednesday, but you can pre-order it from the link above. I've been using this translation since it was first published in 2001. It's very readable, literal, and has taken advantage of many of the advances that the translators of the KJV desired to see so that their work of improvement on previous English translations would be still further improved. You can read from this version here. Go check out this Study Bible - [read] Keywords: application
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Thu, Sep 11th 2008 11:03p Chris Whisonant Around this exact time of day 7 years ago I was sitting at work when my mom called to tell me that a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center. I thought she was crazy until I turned on Fox News in our server room and got my colleagues in there watching. Then hearing reports that the Pentagon was hit. Then the second plane hit the other tower and a plane crashed in Pennsylvania. Then the towers fell... It was really surreal and words can't describe it. Last year, I took the picture below. I [read] Keywords: application
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Direct your browsers to Port 1352
Wed, Sep 10th 2008 8:59p Chris Whisonant I would like to introduce you all to David Brown (that guy who sits beside me at work!) and his new blog Port 1352. By the way, did you know modem files aren&os;t installed any longer with Notes 8.5? Yep, go to David&os;s blog to check it out! Welcome to the blogosphere, David (it&os;s about time lol)!! [read] Keywords: notes
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Use BleedYellow to Plan Your Lotusphere Sessions
Fri, Sep 5th 2008 8:05p Chris Whisonant Are you looking for a central location to manage the planning of your Lotusphere Session proposals? Feel free to do so using the Activities section of BleedYellow.com! This can be very beneficial just for single presenters, but if you are planning on presenting with others this can work exceptionally well! And, to make things simpler, we have created an Activity Template titled "Lotusphere Session Planning": If you wish to begin using it immediately, just click "Start an Activity from this T [read] Keywords: connections
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A Courageous Story
Mon, Sep 1st 2008 11:29p Chris Whisonant One of the few podcasts I listen to is Albert Mohler's, and he has a great blog too. Way back on May 6, 2008, he posted a blog titled Welcome to the World, Trig Paxson Van Palin about Governor Sarah Palin's pregnancy and the birth of her son with Down's Syndrome. I urge you to go read it and the AP article to which it links.She loves her baby boy and is proud of him. "I'm looking at him right now, and I see perfection," Palin told the Associated Press. "Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep t [read] Keywords: php
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Anti-Obamanomics
Sat, Aug 30th 2008 8:13p Chris Whisonant Just reading a good article at Mises.org titled: Anti-Obamanomics: Why Everyone Should Be in Favor of Reducing Taxes on the "Rich" Generally, the economists at the site don't post about particular candidates. But with so much focus on the election now, I urge you to go read some from it. It's actually a response to an article in the New York Times Magazine: Are the American people being primed to elect as President of the United States a home-grown version of Hugo Chavez, in the person of Barack [read] Keywords: administration
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