It's nearly Christmas... and Brick City is nearly finished...

Now that I'm into the final stages it really is time to tidy the office. Especially when you've already packed away half the models and this is what greets you as you open the door!

Too many models!

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ICON UK - an update (it's going well!) Mon, May 13th 2013 6:40a Warren Elsmore Well, it's been just under 2 weeks since we announced ICON UK. I'll admit - there was some in-trepidation here as we launched it. LUGs have been around a long time, would our new name scare people off?Well, it seems not! In the last two weeks we've already had nearly 80 attendees sign up and 6 sponsors (with more waiting in the wings to be added to the site). It seems that our vision of an all inclusive IBM user group event has been well received. Either that, or Brighton was a good choice of [read] Keywords: ibm

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Announcing ICON UK 2013 - the new name for UKLUG Tue, Apr 30th 2013 5:50a Warren Elsmore Well, we said we'd be back - didn't we?I'm very happy to announce today that the conference formally known as UKLUG will be back in 2013. We are going to be at the;Brighton Grand Hotel 2nd - 3rd September 2013But we also have much more than that to tell you. There was a lot of talk at the end of last year as it was announced that 'Lotusphere' was to be renamed as 'Connect' - but with the same great content, speakers and community. In the end of course, it all worked out very well. The exp [read] Keywords: ibm lotus lotusphere community db2 email tivoli websphere

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Brick City: LEGO for Grown-ups | Brickset: LEGO set guide and database Thu, Apr 25th 2013 6:00a Warren Elsmore Brickset review Brick City (that's alot of bricks....) - “Overall then, this is an excellent book that will appeal to fans of LEGO Architecture in particular, and to non-AFOLs who have an interest in becoming one. Even if you don’t, or can’t build any of the models, it will provide inspiration and ideas for tackling your own projects and might encourage you to start modelling your own local landmarks.” — Huw Millington :-) [read] Keywords: database

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Brick City Review | Brick Fanatics Tue, Apr 23rd 2013 3:13p Warren Elsmore The review copies of Brick City are hitting the doorsteps in the UK now! Richard Hayes from Brick Fanatics gives it 99% ! [read] Keywords:

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Edinburgh Book launch - tickets are available update! Wed, Apr 17th 2013 4:30a Warren Elsmore Want tickets for the Edinburgh book launch on the 2nd May? They are now available from the store!.Email: events.edinburgh@blackwell.co.uk or call 0131 622 8218.Tickets are required for entry, but are totally free! [read] Keywords: email

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Brick City - UK book launch event details Mon, Apr 15th 2013 8:00a Warren Elsmore If you live in the US and pre-ordered Brick City, then there is a good chance that you might have already received it.If you're in the UK though, you get your own special treat - we get to have a proper launch party! Here are the details:Edinburgh - Blackwells South Bridge, 6pm - 7:45 on the 2nd May. Free, but ticketed.London - Waterstones on Piccadilly. All day May 6th. Free, just turn up.I'm going to be at both events, as are a few models from the book itself. We've more space in London, s [read] Keywords:

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Warren Elsmore on YouTube Sun, Apr 14th 2013 4:30p Warren Elsmore New on my Youtube channel - 3 timelapses of the drive from Edinburgh to Copenhagen. Yes.... they are well overdue for being uploaded!Anyway, enjoy three days of driving in under 10 minutes ;-) [read] Keywords:

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Office 365 or: How I Learned to Stop Worry and Love the Cloud Fri, Apr 5th 2013 4:00a Warren Elsmore In case you hadn't noticed, www.uklug.info has been down for a few days (many people did, thanks for letting me know ;-) ). Anyway, these things happen in datacenters - even with the best will in the world, occasionally things go wrong. In this instance, a BIG thankyou to Bluewave for getting them back up and running as they kindly host the UKLUG servers for me.Anyway, this brought forward something I'd been meaning to look at for ages. As much as I like Notes, let's say that it isn't the fa [read] Keywords: calendaring domino ibm notes apple email google interface iphone mac office outlook server sharepoint

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Busy as usual Fri, Mar 15th 2013 8:00a Warren Elsmore Yes, my usual standard of ever-constant blogging continues... not ;-)​Actually, things have been very busy here. The trip to Copenhagen was great - amazing models of course and the chance to catch up with many, many friends. You know that feeling when you have hug people goodbye, saying 'see you again - somewhere, sometime? At worst, back here next year?' well, that was the case for me. ​Lots of pictures here and whilst it's not guaranteed that I'll be invited back again, I'm sure as he [read] Keywords: ibm notes blogging twitter

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Truckin' to LEGOWorld Copenhagen Tue, Feb 12th 2013 11:40a Warren Elsmore Yes, it's two weeks after Connect - so it must be time to be in another country entirely already! In fact, make that 5....This week I'll be at LEGOWorld Copenhagen, exhibiting the Olympics display that was on show in London during the games. Sadly, pallet shipping to Denmark is really very, very expensive - so it's actually slightly easier and cheaper just to drive it there. All 1100 miles there.So, on Sunday morning I left Edinburgh for Kent. On Monday, I drove from Kent to the tunnel, throu [read] Keywords: