Libby Says...
In the realm of shameless plug: e-Pro Magazine just announced the finalists in our annual Apex Awards for Lotus. Congratulations to all those who are finalists and my personal thanks to all those who were judges for the awards. Winners will be announced during lunch on the first day of the Admin2004 show in Boston the week after next. Which brings me to part 2 of the shameless plug: the Admin2004 show is in Boston the week after next, and many of us in the blogsphere will be there, either speaking or hanging out. Come to enjoy the show, revel in the company, and say hi! Permanent Link to this entry: Permanent Link
I've always liked Portland. My mom moved here when I was in high school and despite the popular mythology that Portland has the constant rain and dreariness, I've never found that to be true. While there is plenty of rain and cloudcover, I seem to be be very successful at visiting during beautiful weather. Today, for example, it's clear skies, sun, a light breeze, low 70s, with spring springing -- the trees and flowers and grasses are all growing and verdant ; the mountain (that Mt. Hood, for the curious) is a beautiful big white backdrop; the river is full of boats fishing for salmon... It doesn't get much prettier than this and I can easily understand why people move to this part of the world. Permanent Link to this entry: Permanent Link
From this week's Computerworld, a few articles that might be of interest to you guys. A Sunny Forecast for Open-Source uses weather.com's move to all-open-source as a leaping-off point to talk about how open-source is improving as a true alternative. Interestingly, this is one example of a move from WebSphere to Tomcat, and they're in the process of moving from Oracle to MySQL. Mills on CA: Steve Mills has some opinions on the things going on with CA and Sanjay Kumar's stepping aside as CEO. There's also a tidbit about what it means that IBM acquired Candle. CA's Barrenechea responds to Mills in a... ummm... fiesty way. I don't think most of the folks in our blogsphere fit this description, but some of you may work with or manage folks who do, but there's a Q&A with a communications consultant on working with Introverted Technologists, and what they might need to do to "survive in an extroverted world." If you do think you might be considered an introvert, there are also some tips for dealing with those of us who are the extroverts. Annoying finks that we are. ;-) Permanent Link to this entry: Permanent Link
It never ceases to amaze me how the work world has changed, even in the last 5 years. Today, I've done work in four different places. I worked at my desk in my home office for most of the morning. I have both a wireless and wired connection there. Then, the real estate agent called and wanted to show the house, so I needed to leave. So while I was en route to a coffee shop, I worked completely wirelessly, via my Blackberry and cell phone. Then, I got to one coffee shop, where I have both wired and wireless connections available. Unfortunately, my VPN software and their connection don't like each other, so used Webmail. Then I went to a second coffee shop, with all wireless access, where my VPN does work, and so I was using the Notes client wirelessly. Tomorrow, while on my way to Portland, I'll again be doing the wireless/blackberry/cellphone thing. If I didn't tell you that I wasn't going to be out of the office, you might not even know! It's both cool (meaning, I can work anywhere) and overwhelming, sometimes (meaning... I can work anywhere, anytime... all the time!). Update: Heh. So, I finished writing this entry and went to replicate. Perhaps I spoke too soon. Not only are they blocking whatever port I need to get to my VPN, but it looks as though they're also blocking port 1352 -- I can't replicate or open things from the server. Ah well. I guess I can always replicate later. Permanent Link to this entry: Permanent Link
Thanks much to all of you who noted that I'd been quite silent of late and were concerned and also to those who had a small outpouring of "hellos" and were pleased that I'd popped back into the world. I am indeed back in the world. I won't bore you with the details of why I was silent for so long (you wouldn't believe me if I told you, and even if you did, while it might be somewhat funny for sheer shock value, it probably isn't appropriate to go into here), but I will say that there are yet more changes going on in my personal and professional life. The thing about life is that it just keeps getting more interesting. The challenge is to find ways to look at things that might not be "happy" and turn them into positives. That's kind of what I've been working on for the past few weeks. Anyway, you'll likely start to notice a few of those changes migrate their way here. If you really feel like you want more details, drop me a note or give me an IM and we'll talk. In other news, thanks to Chris and Steve for the updates to the blog template. It looks like we may have fixed the comment counts and gotten everything to be at the new template. Permanent Link to this entry: Permanent Link
The Dominoblog upgrade to 2.1.3 on Friday seemed like it was quite refreshing -- the comment counts on previous threads were accurate, the RSS feed fixed. Unfortunately, it seems like it may have been a momentary gratificiation. Duffbert left a comment on Friday's new posting, but the counter remains affixed at zero. The other predicament resulting from the 2.1.3 upgrade is that the referrers view is stuck in alphabetical sort order, rather than most recent first. Thus, two quandries to examine ... will apprise of any updates. Permanent Link to this entry: Permanent Link
It's kind of funny that during the last couple of weeks, while there haven't been any new entries to this blog, it hasn't exactly been quiet here. From April 13th to 21st, the most common referrer to this site was from Popdex. Somehow, Popdex became convinced that this site had something to do with a woman named Libby Hoeler, and sent over 300 people here looking for this other Libby. Well, writing about this might not be such a great idea, since it means that Google will of course associate notesgirl.com with the other Libby, but it seemed funny enough to share with all of you. So who is Libby Hoeler? Well, not somebody this Libby wants to be associated with, methinks. According to an article on kuro5hin, Libby Hoeler was the "star" of some leaked private home videos. The story is over two years old, but apparently, even with everything available on the web today, some people still want to find out all about the story behind these grainy videos and the girl dancing in them. If that's why you are here, please follow this link back to Google. You're most definitely in the wrong place! Permanent Link to this entry: Permanent Link
You've probably already seen it, since Ed introduced it already, but I promised earlier that if Kathleen would finally start blogging, that I'd link to her, so.... Welcome to blogging, Kathleen! Permanent Link to this entry: Permanent Link |
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