New Media Tuesday - 3/16/2010
Tue, Mar 16th 2010 12:20p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Armored Barnaby Jones: Season #1 Broken Embraces Cannon: Season #2: Volume 2 Clash of the Gods: Season #1 Destination Truth: Season #1 Did You Hear About the Morgans? Dillinger Is Dead: The Criterion Collection Fourth Kind, The Hawaii Five-O: Season #8 In Plain Sight: Season #2 Monk: Season #8 Ninja Assassin One Piece: Season Two: Sixth Voyage Penguins Of Madagascar, The: Operation: DVD Premiere Ponyo Princess And The Frog, The (Blu-Ray + DVD + D [read] Keywords: mac
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Open XML SDK for Microsoft Office Version 2.0 has shipped
Mon, Mar 15th 2010 2:50p John Head A big day for the OOXML community ... On February 21, 2008, I posted on Microsoft Interoperability Principles, which are designed to make our products more open and more available to the broader software community. Since that day, Microsoft has made several strides in this area, too many to recount here and now, but largely explained by the Interoperability@Microsoft team. Today we are making an important advance in the area of document format interoperability for Office, as part of our ongoin [read] Keywords: application
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New Media Tuesday - 3/9/2010
Tue, Mar 9th 2010 7:20p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Boondock Saints II, The: All Saints Day Breaking Bad: Season #2 Brothers Warner, The Capitalism: A Love Story Greek: Chapter Four Hannah Montana: Miley Says Goodbye? Hunter: Season #1 In Plain Sight: Season #2 Iron King: The Complete Series Johnny Bravo: Season #1 Life with Derek: Season #3 Matt Houston: Season #1 Penguins Of Madagascar, The: Operation: DVD Premiere Pirate Radio Planet 51 Scarecrow And Mrs. King: Season #1 Stoning Of Soraya M., T [read] Keywords: microsoft
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New Media Tuesday - 3/2/2010
Tue, Mar 2nd 2010 1:50p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 2012 (Blu-Ray) (#1 in the DVDPS Top 40) 2012: 2 Disc Edition (Blu-Ray) (#2 in the DVDPS Top 40) Bitch Slap: Unrated Castle In The Sky: SE Clash Of The Titans (Blu-Ray) (#28 in the DVDPS Top 40) Designing Women: Season #3 Gentlemen Broncos Hell's Kitchen: Season #2 Kiki's Delivery Service: SE Matlock: Season #4 Plenty Ponyo (Blu-Ray) (#17 in the DVDPS Top 40) Ponyo SGU: Stargate Universe: Season #1 (Blu-Ray) Where The Wild Things Are (Blu-Ray) (#4 [read] Keywords: atlantic
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Reminder: OpenNTF.org IP Working Group Open Call Tomorrow!
Thu, Feb 25th 2010 4:31p John Head The first quarterly call will be tomorrow, Friday, February 26th 2010 at 10 AM Eastern. The agenda is that I will present our goals and top tasks for 2010 and then open the floor to comments and questions to anyone on the call. To access the call in info, go here. [read] Keywords: openntf
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Welcome to the updated JohnDavidHead.com
Thu, Feb 25th 2010 11:51a John Head So as you can see, this site has a new look. Something a bit more current, a bit more polish, and a bit more focus on what I do on a daily basis. The color scheme matches the PSC look, but this is definitely my site. A bit of the 'edge' is gone - notice that the website title is just "John D. Head" not "John D. Head aka Starfish" - and the World of Warcraft image is gone. Not that this site will go super stuffy, but I wanted this site to be more a reflection on how I have changed. I still play g [read] Keywords: domino
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This blog is getting a facelift over the next 24 hours ...
Wed, Feb 24th 2010 10:20a John Head Please pardon any issues as this blog gets a facelift over the next 24 hours. I am excited about the new look and feel and direction for my site. More as the facelift is complete and the bandages come off [read] Keywords:
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Today is Paczki Day!
Tue, Feb 16th 2010 12:10p John Head This time of year, one of my favorite days is Paczki Day. Today is Paczki Day (well, at least in my family tradition - some people celebrate Paczki Thursday), which just happens to be Fat Tuesday or the day before Lent. Paczki (Punch-key) are delicious, jelly filled dough balls covered with server types of sugar or glaze. The idea behind Paczki's is that on Ostatki (Fat Tuesday), Polish bakers make paczki because 40 days of fasting is about to begin and the cooks must use up the ingredients in t [read] Keywords: server
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New Media Tuesday - 2/16/2010
Tue, Feb 16th 2010 10:10a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Barnaby Jones: Season #1 Black Dynamite Branded: The Complete Series Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies Cannon: Season #2: Volume 2 Dirty Harry Collection, The Head Case: Season #2 Hunger: Criterion Collection Law Abiding Citizen Lincoln Heights: Season #1 Lola Montes: Criterion Collection Revanche: Criterion Collection Small Wonder: Season #1 Vega$: Season #1: Volume 2 WWE: Raw: The 2009 Season Computer Games Aliens vs Pre [read] Keywords: vista
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OpenNTF.org IP Working Group Quarterly Call Scheduled for 2/26/2010
Mon, Feb 15th 2010 11:10a John Head In response to suggestions at Lotusphere 2010 was to have a more open discussion with the working groups. The IP Working Group, which I am the chair for, is going to have a quarterly call open to all members (membership requirement is that you have an OpenNTF.org registration to access the forum - that is it!). The first quarterly call will be on Friday, February 26th 2010 at 10 AM Eastern. The agenda is that I will present our goals and top tasks for 2010 and then open the floor to comments [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Free XPages Training in Chicago!
Mon, Feb 15th 2010 9:10a John Head So Alex, Roy, and Richard have mentioned it, but I wanted to make sure everyone got the message clearly ... FREE XPAGES TRAINING IN CHICAGO! The details - GRANITE, the Greater Chicago Lotus User Group, has decided it was time to do a suburbs meeting for the user group community. To alternate with downtown meetings that happen every other month (we had one last week), we are meeting in March. And instead of having speakers, the decision was made to do hands on technical activities. The firs [read] Keywords: lotus
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New Media Tuesday - 2/9/2010
Tue, Feb 9th 2010 10:10a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Amelia Army Wives: Season #3 Dangerous Man, A Defying Gravity: Season #1 Gaogaigar: King Of Braves: Season One Gary Unmarried: Season #1 Halo Legends: SE JAG: The Complete Series JAG: The Final Season Jockeys: Season #2 Love Happens Patty Duke Show: Season #2 Penguins Of Madagascar, The: Operation: DVD Premiere Pride & Prejudice (2005): Collector's Edition SGU: Stargate Universe: Season #1 Sarah Silverman Program, The: Season #2: Volume 2 Ser [read] Keywords: traveler
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Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints and Illini alum Pierre Thomas
Mon, Feb 8th 2010 10:31a John Head I would like to congratulate the New Orleans Saints on their Super Bowl 44 win. To the team, organization, fans, and city - enjoy and celebrate. Oh wait, it's Mardi Gras time - you are already celebrating. Just keep it going :-) A special congratulations to Pierre Thomas, the running back who scored two touchdowns. I got to see Pierre play 2 seasons with the University of Illinois Fighting Illini. He was overshadowed by Reshard Mendenhall at school, but man has he come on strong in the NFL. P [read] Keywords:
Social Media Makover - Slides and Wrap Up
Thu, Feb 4th 2010 4:43p John Head I wanted to thank everyone for coming out to a great evening of social media and real life makeover goodness. We had a great crowd who were engaging and interactive. As promised, here are the slides from last night: Social Media Makeover PresentationView more presentations from John Head. I wanted to thank our vendors: Halo [For Men] Nicholas Joseph The Shinettes Robin Walker of AskRobinWalker.com Mark Beier Ellehomme Medspa A shout out to Nathan Freeman for the ama [read] Keywords: application
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IBM Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2 is now available
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 11:50p John Head IBM Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2 is now available! Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2 is now available! Give it a try. Tell us what you think. Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2 represents a major new advancement for our Lotus Symphony users. Based on current OpenOffice.org 3 code stream. Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2 offers loads of new features and capabilities and improved file fidelity. The Lotus Symphony team is excited to get it out to you and get your feedback. Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2 introduces support for Visual Bas [read] Keywords: ibm
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Social Media Makeover TONIGHT!
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 3:10p John Head It's not to late to attend Social Media Makeover tonight, Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010. You get three great speakers; talking about simple changes and techniques you can use in 2010 to utilize social media in your career; Mark Carter Christopher Rollyson John Head There is also a group of great vendors who will cover traditoinal makeover tips for 2010, including: Halo [For Men] Nicholas Joseph The Shinettes Robin Walker of AskRobinWalker.com Mark Beier Ellehomme Medsp [read] Keywords:
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Social Media Makeover Preview: Christopher Rollyson of The Executive’s Guide To LinkedIn
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 1:10p John Head As a preview for the Social Media Makeover on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010, here is a preview of one of the vendors who will be at the event: Christopher S. Rollyson Managing Director, CSRA, Inc. Christopher S. Rollyson has guided executives on using disruptive technology to transform business for 24 years. As a management consultant at global and specialist firms, he has advised Fortune 100 companies on how to assess, pilot and scale their use of the Internet, service-oriented arc [read] Keywords: blogging
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Social Media Makeover Preview: Mark Carter of TweetNetworking.com
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 11:20a John Head As a preview for the Social Media Makeover on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010, here is a preview of one of the speakers who will be at the event: Mark J. Carter Founder, TweetNetworking, LLC and Networking For A Cause Mark J. Carter is the founder of TweetNetworking, LLC and Networking For A Cause. He ran Chicagoâs first Twestival (an international event in 150+ cities) and is currently setting up Chicagoâs 3rd Twestival. Carter regularly trains companies and individuals on h [read] Keywords: community
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Social Media Makeover Preview: ElleHomme Holistic Medical Spa
Tue, Feb 2nd 2010 3:20p John Head As a preview for the Social Media Makeover on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010, here is a preview of one of the vendors who will be at the event: Ellehomme Holistic MedSPA A new medspa in the Chicago West Loop, ellehomme offers massages and other spa services in a great atmosphere with great hours on the weekdays. ellehomme will be doing chair massages and eyebrow waxing at Social Media Makeover this Wednesday! If you are in the Chicago area, please come join us! You can get your tic [read] Keywords:
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Lotusphere 2010 : Lotus Symphony Architecture - Current and Future
Tue, Feb 2nd 2010 2:20p John Head At the Lotusphere 2010 session "AD207 IBM Lotus Symphony Technical Overview", Yue MA and Erik MA talked about the architecture of Lotus Symphony. I thought the following three slides were great for illustrating how Lotus Symphony is architected and sheds some light on what is coming with Lotus Symphony 3 aka Vienna. Here is the current architecture of Lotus Symphony 1.X: As you can see, Symphony 1.X is derived from OpenOffice.org 1.1 code. IBM uses the Louts Expeditor toolkit to provi [read] Keywords: expeditor
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Social Media Makeover Preview: Mark Beier âOn The Go Health Fitnessâ
Tue, Feb 2nd 2010 1:10p John Head As a preview for the Social Media Makeover on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010, here is a preview of one of the vendors who will be at the event: Mark Beier, LLC âOn The Go Health & Fitnessâ Mark Beier is the kind of personal trainer and private chef that can make an impact even on a busy executive. Mark understands people are going to treat themselves from time to time - he teaches moderation and balance. âOn The Go Health & Fitnessâ helps address the growing [read] Keywords:
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Social Media Makeover Preview: Robin Walker of AskRobinWalker.com
Tue, Feb 2nd 2010 11:10a John Head As a preview for the Social Media Makeover on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010, here is a preview of one of the vendors who will be at the event: Robin Walker of www.askrobinwalker.com Robin Walker is one of the best Image Consultants in the Chicagoland area. She is someone you can't help but noticing on-line; she never pulls a punch. I think that is what makes her such a great expert on the ways of men's fashion. She cuts thru the typical BS and tells you exactly what is wrong. She puts [read] Keywords:
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New Media Tuesday - 2/2/2010
Tue, Feb 2nd 2010 10:10a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Adam Batman: The Brave And The Bold: Volume 3 Beverly Hills 90210: Season #9 Dallas: Season #12 Dynasty: Season #4: Volume 2 G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Season #1: Part 3 Head Case: The Complete Series Ice Castles (2010) Jonas: I Heart Jonas: Volume 2 Mary Tyler Moore Show, The: Season #6 Mister Ed: Season #2 Murder, She Wrote: Season #11 Ong Bak 2 (Blu-Ray) Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior (Blu-Ray) She-Wolf Of London: The Complete Series Tom And J [read] Keywords: administration
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Social Media Makeover Preview: Nicholas Joseph
Mon, Feb 1st 2010 5:01p John Head As a preview for the Social Media Makeover on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010, here is a preview of one of the vendors who will be at the event: Nicholas Joseph Custom Tailors Nicholas Joseph is a Chicago-based custom tailor that provides the best of custom tailoring at a price you can not beat. Nicholas Joseph custom tailored suits start at $499 and custom made dress shirts at $119 - the same price you will pay in most major department stores and men's shops for off-the-rack clothing. [read] Keywords:
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Social Media Makeover Preview: Halo [For Men]
Mon, Feb 1st 2010 5:01p John Head As a preview for the Social Media Makeover on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010, here is a preview of one of the vendors who will be at the event: As part of our traditional makeover vendor area, Halo [For Men] is the best place for the Chicago man to get a haircut and much more. Stylists will be on hand to talk about what changes someone could make for a better appearance in 2010 and doing on-site paraffin hand treatments. Halo [For Men] will be giving everyone who attends a [read] Keywords:
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Lotusphere 2010 : Lotus Symphony Development - Comparing UNO vs LotusScript
Mon, Feb 1st 2010 3:10p John Head One of my favorite slides at Lotusphere 2010 was in "AD207 IBM Lotus Symphony Technical Overview" when they were comparing the code needed by both UNO and LotusScript to create a table. Let's look at this in detail: Here is a screenshot of the table to be created: The code required in UNO to create this table: Object desktop = factory.createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop"); XComponentLoader loader = ( XComponentLoader ) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XComponentLoader.class, deskto [read] Keywords: ibm
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Social Media Makeover Preview: The Shinettes
Mon, Feb 1st 2010 1:10p John Head As a preview for the Social Media Makeover on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2010, here is a preview of one of the vendors who will be at the event: Shinettes Shoe Shine Shinettes Shoe Shine, Inc. is Chicago's premier all female run shoe shine company offering professional shoe shines for establishments, private events and trade shows. They have a great motto of "Your shoes say more than you think." Shinettes was born with the idea of reinventing the lost art of shining shoes. As a nece [read] Keywords:
Social Media Makeover Preview: Halo [For Men]
Mon, Feb 1st 2010 9:10a John Head As a preview for the Social Media Makeover on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2010, here is a preview of one of the vendors who will be at the event: As part of our traditional makeover vendor area, Halo [For Men] is the best place for the Chicago man to get a haircut and much more. Stylists will be on hand to talk about what changes someone could make for a better appearance in 2010 and doing on-site paraffin hand treatments. Halo [For Men] will be giving everyone who attends [read] Keywords:
Congratulations to Eric McLaughlin for winning the 2009 PSC CLEAR Vision Award!
Fri, Jan 29th 2010 3:51p John Head At our company meeting, Eric McLaughlin was rewarded with the 2009 PSC CLEAR Vision Award. Here is Eric with his very cool Eagle award I wanted to give Eric a shout out on my blog because Eric has been the leader of many of the projects I have been involved in the past 18 months. Eric was the lead developer and project manager on the EditLive for Quickr for Domino integration from Ephox. He has also spent much of 2009 with his arms deep in VSTO and Notes work for 3 of our projects. Eric [read] Keywords: domino
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Learn more about Social Meda Makeover as Robin Walker interviews me on BlogTalkRadio
Fri, Jan 29th 2010 3:51p John Head If you are in Chicago and want to learn more about the Social Media Makeover event happening on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2010 (next week!), Robin Walker of www.askrobinwalker.com interviewed me on her BlogTalkRadion show "Tailored Edges". We had a great conversation about how I am using social media and the Social Media Makeover event next week. Robin is one of the many makeover vendors who will be at the event. Check out the recording and hope to see you next week! [read] Keywords: profile
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Word of Warning: Don’t Download Symphony 3 Beta just yet
Fri, Jan 29th 2010 3:51p John Head It seems people are excited about the upcoming Symphony 3 beta that is coming out shortly. So excited that I see a Symphony3Beta.exe has landed on bittorrents and Rapidshare, along with other sites. Here is the problem - IBM has not released a beta. Not even to Design Partners. So that file is not really Symphony 3 - it seems to be Symphony 1.3 Gold code - with a virus. Maybe even some malware. I won't spread what it is doing, but DO NOT DOWNLOAD Symphony3Beta.exe from anywhere other than sympho [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2010 : Lots of blogging to come
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a John Head So Lotusphere 2010 has come to a close. The flags on the walkway are down and most people have left Orlando. As the event winds down, my thoughts on the week are starting to come together. I plan on having a bunch of content on the blog about the event, including: Thoughts on the Opening Session and the Press Announcements Specific thoughts on Project Vulcan Lots more content about Symphony 3 "2010 - The quiet storm for Lotus" Some competitive pieces around Lotus Quickr and Connections and th [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotusphere 2010 : Lotus is taking the lead in HTML5 and other technologies
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a John Head One of the many themes that IBM wanted people to come away from Lotusphere 2010 is that Lotus is going to be a leader in current technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, Webkit, Open Social, and OpenID & OAuth. This is not just about IBM enabling these technologies, but in leading in how they are implemented and used. It's time for the amazing team of engineers at IBM to take the global stage and LEAD. I look forward to seeing how they do that, what tools they use to spread the message, and how the [read] Keywords: ibm
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My Year in 2009 on Slideshare
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a John Head I got this email from SlideShare this weekend and thought I would share: 23,000 + views of my presentations on SlideShare is pretty damn cool! I can even track some clients that I got due to people finding my content on SlideShare. Thank You SlideShare for such a cool service. [read] Keywords: email
New Media Tuesday - 1/26/2010
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:21a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Animal Planet: Orangutan Island: The Complete Season 1 Che: The Criterion Collection Cranford: Return To Cranford Durham County: Season #1 I Can Do Bad All By Myself (Widescreen) I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell: Unrated & Unapologetic InAlienable Jockeys: Season #1 Jon & Kate Plus Ei8ht: Season 4: The Big Move Vol. 2 Jon & Kate Plus Ei8ht: Season 4: The Wedding Vol 1 Jonas: I Heart Jonas: Volume 2 Michael Jackson's This Is It Pandorum [read] Keywords: vista
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9 Years
Fri, Dec 18th 2009 10:49a John Head Today marks my 9 year anniversary with PSC. In 2000, when Syngeristics was becoming a sinking ship (Steve Osborne left in June, Henry in late summer, Rocky in October), I went looking for a short term job before I knew what I wanted to do next. 9 years later, I guess I can take the "short term" label off my career here :-) Just wanted to say thanks to Andrew, Bruce, Jim, and Alex for years of support; John, RJ, Rick, and Chris M for recent support and all of the other folks at PSC that have [read] Keywords:
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5 Years Gone- RIP Darrell Abbott
Tue, Dec 8th 2009 9:09a John Head It has been 5 years since the terrible murder of Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott, the guitar player of Pantera and Damageplan. One of the most innovative guitarist in the metal world, his talent and music is missed. In honor of Dime, crank some Pantera today. LOUD. [read] Keywords:
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PSC Hosted Blogs Maintenance - This Weekend
Fri, Dec 4th 2009 11:49a John Head Due to growth at PSC, we are changing a bunch of infrastructure items over the weekend. One of the things that is changing is our external IP ranges. That means every blog we host will need to update their DNS to point to the new IP addresses. This is going to start Saturday morning at 9 am. The goal is to have everything working in about 90 minutes, but we all know how this kind of change over goes. Plus all the DNS' that will need to refresh. So any of the our hosted blogs may be unavailabl [read] Keywords:
New Media Tuesday - 11/17/2009
Tue, Nov 17th 2009 1:59p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 7th Heaven: Season #9 Andy Barker, P.I.: The Complete Series Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series Dane Cook: ISolated INcident Downhill Racer: Criterion Collection Elvis Costello: Spectacle: Season #1 Farscape: The Complete Series (#3 in the DVDPS Top 40) Futurama: The Complete Collection G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra Gone With The Wind: 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition (Blu-Ray) (#18 in the DVDPS Top 40) Gone With The Wind: 70th [read] Keywords: vista
PSC project highlighted in a new Microsoft Case Study that features OOXML
Wed, Nov 11th 2009 11:09a John Head A new Microsoft Case Study has been published that talks about Research Director, Inc., one of our customers. The case study features a solution that uses Microsoft Open Office XML (OOXML) to drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to produce hundreds of PowerPoint presentations. Here is a snippet of the case study: RDI develops slide templates that can be quickly customized with customer logos, colors, and themes, and then merged with the data in Open XML to create the Office PowerPoi [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Chicago Folks: Happy Hour for a Good Cause
Fri, Nov 6th 2009 4:59p John Head If you are in Chicago and enjoy networking, this is a great opportunity. The Young Executive Committee at the Metropolitan Club of Chicago is hosting a Happy Hour to benefit the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network on Thursday, November 19, 2009. The Happy Hour will take place from 6 to 8pm. More about the event: The Metropolitan Club Young Executives are hosting a happy hour to benefit the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Join us for a networking mixer and meet others who share a passion for sp [read] Keywords: network
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New Media Tuesday - 11/03/2009
Tue, Nov 3rd 2009 10:09a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Aliens In The Attic Beast Within Blood: The Last Vampire Disclosure (1994) Eclipse Series 18: Dusan Makavejev: Free Radical Forrest Gump: Sapphire Series: Chocolate Box Giftset G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Season #1.2 G.I. Joe: Resolute G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra (Blu-Ray) (#8 in the DVDPS Top 40) G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra: 2-Disc Edition Gary Cooper Star Collection Here's Lucy: Season #2 I Love You, Beth Cooper JAG: Season #9 Mission: Impo [read] Keywords: eclipse
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Tri-StateLUG - Your attending, right?
Tue, Nov 3rd 2009 12:29a John Head Next Monday, November 9th, the Tri-State LUG is holding it's first 1 day event in New York City at IBM offices at 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street from 8 AM to 6 PM. Your attending, right? Why not? You should be ... First, the keynote will be given by the Lotus General Manager Bob Picciano, and I presume Rob Sebastian will be there to spread the word of the demo gods. Second, lots of great speakers from all over the world. I will be there giving the following session: Integration and C [read] Keywords: domino
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Chicago folks - WeGivetoGet.com Launches
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 9:39a John Head Today, a new coupon site launched for the Chicago market. Called We Give to Get, the site allows consumers to get great deals on offers for Chicago based retailers. What makes We Give To Get different is that for every purchase, you select form a listing of charities from ActofGood.org and 10% of the purchase goes to that charity. You get a great deal and a charity gets support. PSC worked with WeGiveToGet.com to help them with the Facebook Connect integration and we hope to do more with them [read] Keywords: facebook
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Chicago Folks - Come attend the Chicago Society Club Crawl
Thu, Oct 22nd 2009 12:39p John Head If you live in Chicago and have wanted to visit The Metropolitan Club, The Mid-America Club, and/or The Foundation Room - this event is a great opportunity. The Annual Chicago Society Halloween Club Crawl is upon us. Everyone is welcome to join us. You need to call and register - using a credit card to reserve. We will eat and drink at the Metropolitan Club and then take a bus to The Mid-America Club. After more eating and drinking, we take the bus to The Foundation Room at the House of [read] Keywords:
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PSC launches new website
Thu, Oct 22nd 2009 2:09a John Head Today, PSC launched a new version of our website. Designed to be SEO-friendly and consume and contribute to the conversations we participate in on a daily basis. This is just the first step - with the ability to pull in our consultant's blog and social media stream will appear shortly. If you have any feedback about our new site, please comment here! [read] Keywords:
Notes 8.5.1 bring us a true Lotus Symphony API!
Wed, Oct 14th 2009 7:49a John Head One of the features of Notes 8.5.1 that is getting buried under the local XPages and other killer features is the new API that allows Notes developers to write LotusScript and Java to automate Lotus Symphony. No longer does one need to learn the UNO hacks we have been using for the past couple years with OpenOffice.org and the past 18 months with Lotus Symphony. I am queuing up a bunch of articles on the new Lotus Symphony API for this week and next. Here is a quick rundown on them: Introd [read] Keywords: document
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Moving is a pain in the ass ... A new home theater isn’t
Fri, Oct 2nd 2009 6:39p John Head If you follow me on Twitter, you know that this week has been crazy as there has been a move taking place. The move is only about a mile down Michigan Avenue ... but any move is a real pain in the ass. Packing, moving, unpacking ... and realizing just how much crap you own. Multiple car loads of books, movies, house wares, and clothes are going to the resale shop and donated - all sparked on the move. I am also completely updating the home theater : new TV, components, speakers, component rac [read] Keywords: domino
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PSC to introduce Social Web Manager at three events in October
Mon, Sep 28th 2009 9:39a John Head You are cordially invited to join PSC and Microsoft for a first look at… Social Web Manager for Microsoft SharePoint Join us for complimentary cocktails and hors d’oeurves and a presentation that will change the way you are thinking about the Social Web “Research suggests that companies that are using social media & new media technologies are growing faster than other companies. Four out of five companies in the Inc 500 rate social media technology as important or [read] Keywords: workflow
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Thoughts on LoLA and #LotusKnows
Mon, Sep 28th 2009 12:39a John Head I haven't been able to write much about the events of LoLA and "Lotus Knows" last week as I had wanted too. The Lotus Leadership Alliance (LoLA) event was an great change for Lotus to interact with it's top customers and partners. What is different between Lotusphere and LoLA is that the gloves come off. Customers present to IBM on what they can do better. IBM takes time to meet with it's partners in one on one meetings. Exchange of ideas and suggestions is encouraged. No media to impress. No fl [read] Keywords: ibm
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LotusKnows Day!
Tue, Sep 22nd 2009 10:19a John Head Today is Lotusknows day as the Lotusknows campaign begins in full force. There will be some announcements today coming from the Lotus Leadership Alliance conference in Cambridge, MA. IBM is asking that everyone participate - by using #Lotusknows on the social networks to spread what Lotus really does know. More later. [read] Keywords: ibm
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New Media Tuesday - 9/22/2009
Tue, Sep 22nd 2009 10:19a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 30 Rock: Season #3 Brotherhood: The Final Season Castle: Season #1 Clive Barker's Book Of Blood Edges Of Darkness Friday The 13th: The Series: Complete Series Pack Friday The 13th: The Series: The Final Season Ghost Whisperer: Season #4 Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past Knight Hunters & Knight Hunters Eternity: Complete Series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season #10 Mentalist, The: Season #1 Observe And Report Parks & Recreation: Season [read] Keywords: vista
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New Media Tuesday - 9/15/2009
Tue, Sep 15th 2009 4:19p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies American Werewolf In London, An: Full Moon Edition Army Of Darkness: Screwhead Edition Big Bang Theory, The: Season #2 (#4 in the DVDPS Top 40) Bonanza: The Official First Season: Volume 1 Bonanza: The Official First Season: Volume 2 Bring It On: Fight To The Finish Brothers & Sisters: Season #3 CSI: Miami: Season #7 Crank 2: High Voltage Crash: Season #1 Desperate Housewives: Season #5: The Red Hot Edition Directed By John Ford Doctor Who (2 [read] Keywords: mac
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Sat, Sep 12th 2009 1:39p John Head 6 years of blogging as of today. Thanks for reading - thru the good, the bad, and whatever you want to call the in-between. [read] Keywords: blogging
New Media Tuesday - 9/8/2009
Tue, Sep 8th 2009 2:59p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Bedknobs and Broomsticks: Enchanted Musical Edition Crank 2: High Voltage: SE Criminal Minds: Season #4 Friday: Deluxe Edition Fringe: Season #1 (Blu-Ray) (#10 in the DVDPS Top 40) Fringe: Season #1 (#11 in the DVDPS Top 40) Get Smart: Season #4 Homicide: Criterion Collection Human Condition, The: Criterion Collection (#32 in the DVDPS Top 40) Important Things With Demetri Martin: Season #1 Kings: The Complete Series Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Micke [read] Keywords: mac
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Time for another review ... Progressive Nation 2009 (Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa)
Mon, Sep 7th 2009 11:19p John Head On Sunday, August 23rd, 2009, I had the pleasure of attending Progressive Nation 2009 - and it was a blast! Here are some thoughts about each band: the location was at the Chicago Theater - and thank you to the promoters for picking a location just 3 blocks from where I live. Nice walk home afterwards :-) Scale the Summit Scale the Summit is a modern day Liquid Tension Experiment - a 4 piece instrumental band that just rocks. They have two guitarists and no vocals - but you r [read] Keywords: iphone
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New Media Tuesday - 9/1/2009
Tue, Sep 1st 2009 11:19p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Braveheart: Sapphire Series (Blu-Ray) (#23 in the DVDPS Top 40) Bring It On: Fight To The Finish Brothers & Sisters: Season #3 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Season #9 Clatterford: Season #2 Degrassi: The Next Generation: Season #8 Desperate Housewives: Season #5: The Red Hot Edition Fate / Stay Night: Complete Series Game, The: Season #1 Gladiator: Sapphire Series (Blu-Ray) (#3 in the DVDPS Top 40) Heroes: Season #3 (#10 in the DVDPS Top 40 [read] Keywords: mac
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Transatlantic releasing "The Whirlwind" on 10/27/2009
Wed, Aug 26th 2009 4:53p John Head Great News for Transatlantic Fans!: TRANSATLANTIC â the progressive rock supergroup featuring DREAM THEATER's Mike Portnoy, MARILLION's Pete Trewavas, THE FLOWER KINGS' Roine Stolt and Neal Morse (ex-SPOCK'S BEARD) â will release its long-awaited third album in October 2009. "The Whirlwind" is described in a press release as "a 77-minute piece of music that is sure to satisfy the band's legions of fans that have patiently waited almost the entire decade for the reunion of these f [read] Keywords:
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New Media Tuesday - 8/25/2009
Tue, Aug 25th 2009 9:33p John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 90210: Season #1 Adventures Of Robin Hood: Season #4 Adventures Of Robin Hood: The Complete Series Batman: The Brave And The Bold: Volume 1 Booker: The Complete Series Californication: Season #2 Dokkoida?!: Complete Series Duplicity Fighting: Rated & Unrated Gangland: Season #4 Here's Lucy: Season #1 House: Season #5 (#9 in the DVDPS Top 40) How The Earth Was Made: Season #1 Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles: Criterion Coll [read] Keywords: eclipse
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Fantasy Football Has Begun!
Tue, Aug 25th 2009 9:13p John Head The NFL Season is almost here, with preseason games in full swing. That means just one thing - Fantasy Football drafts have started! I had my first draft tonight for the PSC league. Here is what I got: Not too bad for 7th out of 12 in the draft order. [read] Keywords:
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Why you will love your calendar when Notes 8.5.1 ships
Mon, Aug 24th 2009 12:29p John Head One of the areas that I publically speak out about my frustration (which is rare - I save that for internal methods of communication with IBM) is with the Notes calendar. My Calendar for this Friday in Notes 8.5.1 (white blocks are stuff I had to hide from all of you :-) ) I can tell you today that Notes 8.5.1 is going to solve many of those problems, and polish the work done in 8.5.0. Personally, my Notes calendar is the calendar tool I prefer to use - and I have Outlook and Google [read] Keywords: domino
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Time for another review: Inglourious Basterds and Quentin Tarantino Q&A
Tue, Aug 18th 2009 11:49p John Head Tonight I had the pleasure of attending the Chicago International Film Festival Summer Gala that honored Quentin Tarantino and hosted the Chicago premiere of his newest movie "Inglourious Basterds." Because the movie has not opened yet, I am not going to give anything away about the movie. It is Tarantino doing what he does best - a great story with killer dialog. The story is a bit choppy as typical, but it not out of order. It is bloody as all heck [more along the Madsen ear scene in Reser [read] Keywords:
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New Media Tuesday - 8/18/2009
Tue, Aug 18th 2009 10:19a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Beast, The: Season #1 Chavo Animado: Season #1 Cracker: The Complete Series (American Series) Dexter: Season #3 Donald In Mathmagic Land (NEW) Eli Stone: Season #2 Everybody Hates Chris: Season #4 Foursome: Season #2 Gossip Girl: Season #2 Greek: Chapter Three Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino: Season #2 Hannah Montana: The Movie: Deluxe Edition Life With Derek: Season #2 Pete's Dragon: High Flying Edition Simon & Simon: Season #3 Simpsons, The: Seas [read] Keywords: mac
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Lotus Knows Marketing - Some Personal Thoughts and a Challenge
Mon, Aug 17th 2009 10:02a John Head You can read all about the blogger briefing this morning here, but I wanted to share some personal thoughts on this. We all know that marketing is the dirty word in the Lotus community. Partners fret over it all the time - many have blogged about it in all forms. Rational and completely irrational. Customers wonder why there is no marketing to back up their decision. And IBM always answered with IBM brand and messaging focused advertising. Like Smart Planet. The Lotus community, or the "Lotus [read] Keywords: forms
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Lotus Knows Campaign - Blogger Briefing
Mon, Aug 17th 2009 8:59a John Head Kristen Lauria - VP of Marketing, IBM Lotus and Ed Brill hosted a call for the Lotus bloggers to brief us in the upcoming "Lotus Knows" marketing campaign and jam. Here are my notes: Overview Campaign - 24 month marketing campaign targeting the influential end-user audience to broaden and deepen enthusiasm for Lotus collaboration technology. Inside out approach - tapping into the energy in the Lotus community to generate real content and excitement at campaign launch. Use the "Lotus Loyal" [read] Keywords: calendaring
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Yellow Day - How are you celebrating?
Tue, Aug 11th 2009 11:19a John Head August 11th is Yellow Day - How are you celebrating? Unfortunately the project I have been working on for release today will not come out today (not due to my code for once, but for something I am waiting for to appear on OpenNTF.org before I can post). Hopefully soon! So wear yellow today. Post a blog post. Answer some postings in the LDD forums. Twitter using #LotusKnows or #YellowDay all day long. Celebrate the community. [read] Keywords: ldd
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New Media Tuesday - 8/11/2009
Tue, Aug 11th 2009 11:19a John Head Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 17 Again 90210: Season #1 Adam 12: Season #3 America's Test Kitchen: Season #9 Are You Being Served: The Complete Collection Californication: Season #2 Designing Women: Season #2 I Love You, Man Lie To Me: Season #1 Life With Derek: Season #2 Lockup: Raw: Season #1 New Detectives: Season #4 Pulling: Season #2 Road Trip: Beer Pong: Unrated Edition Computer Games Madden NFL 10 ( Xbox 360) Xbox 360 Wireless Microphone ( Xbox 360) Madden NFL 1 [read] Keywords: document
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