The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
Apropos of nothing; I've just always liked that poem and heard it again yesterday, so I thought I'd share.
Sometimes if you have an idea, you just have to let it fly and not worry about where it goes. You may never meet the people you've helped. But that doesn't make them any less helped.
Mud Run Over, Huge Thanks (Wednesday, Jun 5)
Wed, Jun 5th 2013 5:10p Julian Robichaux Before anything else, I want to give a huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported me in the mud run by donating to the Myelin Foundation and The Art of Curing Matt. I don't have any official numbers, but I do know that over $1,000 was donated in under 4 days, and that is incredible. You are an amazing and generous community.
Next, I am happy to announce that Chris Miller wins the "Guess The Mud Run Time" prize. He will be receiving a very cool piece of art by Matt Reimer himself: a drawing dep [read] Keywords: community
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Mud Run Training Day 3: The Outfit (Friday, May 31)
Fri, May 31st 2013 12:30p Julian Robichaux Today is the final day of mud run training (the race is tomorrow, did you sponsor me yet?).
Upon recovering from yesterday's mud-in-the-face bit, I decided it would be better to hold off on any more intentional dirtiness before the race. I have switched metaphorical tactics from "wading slowly into the pool" to "jumping off the diving board". Tomorrow will be the dive.
So today I have been picking out clothes for the race. Here's what I came up with so far:
The rationale is:
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Mud Run Training Day 2: Mud In Yer Eye (Thursday, May 30)
Thu, May 30th 2013 1:50p Julian Robichaux As part of today's mud run training (and further incentive for you to sponsor me), I increased my dirt-tolerance quotient by allowing my kids to throw mud at my face.
I apologize for the slightly large size of the animated gif (I usually try to keep graphics much smaller than that). I just thought it might have a bit more impact that way. Plus, animated gifs are all the rage this year, aren't they?
The kids originally thought that they were allowed to throw the entire bucket of mud on [read] Keywords:
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Mud Run Training: Day 1 of 3 (Wednesday, May 29)
Wed, May 29th 2013 10:20a Julian Robichaux First off: huge thanks to those of you who have sponsored me already. If you haven't donated yet, please take a quick look at my Sponsor Me in a Mud Run page to learn about the great cause I am helping to raise money for, and please consider even a small donation. Every dollar helps!
As part of my last-minute training for this event, I will practice getting dirty a little more and a little more each day. Here is day 1:
Hey, you gotta start somewhere. Georgia red clay is very... mushy.
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Help Me Get Muddied Up (Tuesday, May 28)
Tue, May 28th 2013 1:30p Julian Robichaux Short version: please help me raise money for The Art of Curing Matt. You can sponsor me in a mud run this weekend! Just go to the donation page and follow the instructions. If you have the closest guess to my actual finishing time in the race, you'll win a prize! I don't know what the prize is yet, it might be something silly... your suggestions are welcome in the comments.
Longer version: I know that a lot of people have been asking for donations for various charities recently -- people in [read] Keywords: lotus
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IMPORTANT: OpenLog and Disabling Lsi_Info (Friday, Mar 15)
Fri, Mar 15th 2013 7:20a Julian Robichaux This is something that has come up a few times in the past, and I (and other people) have advised about it before, but it certainly bears repeating:
If you are using OpenLog with LotusScript on a Domino server, please set NoLSIStackTrace=True
This is a global variable that determines whether or not the OpenLog code will use Lsi_info(14) to log LotusScript stack traces. IBM has found that the Lsi_Info function (which is part of the LotusScript language) can cause serious problems on the Domin [read] Keywords: agent
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Determining Your Sametime Client ID (Thursday, Dec 20)
Thu, Dec 20th 2012 1:50p Julian Robichaux Upon setting up my Notes 9 Beta client and trying to connect to my test Sametime server, I got this message:
Since I am my own system administrator, I contacted myself. This led to some heated internal discussions, followed by the inevitable Google search.
Apparently this is a fairly well-known message to real-life Sametime admins and the usual remedy is to configure the VPS_ALLOWED_LOGIN_TYPES variable in the server's sametime.ini file using the appropriate Sametime Client ID. Unfortunate [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Mac Font Foibles On Chrome (Saturday, Sep 29)
Sat, Sep 29th 2012 8:00a Julian Robichaux This has been a week of updates to my MacBook. I bought an SSD drive to replace my original (4 year old) hard drive, which meant that I had to finally update to OSX Lion to get TRIM support. This also meant that I got around to all sorts of minor software updates that I've been holding off on, since everything on my Mac has always worked just fine and I saw no need to update software that already worked. Don't mess with a good thing and all that.
One bit of weirdness I noticed after everythin [read] Keywords: application
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Java APIs are NOT Copyrightable (Thursday, May 31)
Thu, May 31st 2012 9:23p Julian Robichaux Geek developer news: from today's Groklaw coverage of the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit, Java APIs are not copyrightable.
"So long as the specific code used to implement a method is different, anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own code to carry out exactly the same function or specification of any methods used in the Java API. It does not matter that the declaration or method header lines are identical. Under the rules of Java, they must be identical to declare a method s [read] Keywords: google
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ExportMime Agent (Tuesday, May 29)
Tue, May 29th 2012 9:03p Julian Robichaux The "normal" way to view the raw version of an Internet email in your Lotus Notes client is to open the mail message in a tab, then choose the menu option View-Show-Page Source. This gives you all the mail headers, MIME parts, etc.
If you'd like to do this with an agent instead, here's some LotusScript that will give you the same sort of output:
ExportMime.lss
There's a function in there that writes the MIME boundaries a little differently than the rest of the MIME content. I wrote this [read] Keywords: agent
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