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Can't believe I've procrastinated this long putting this link up, must have a lot on my mind... So, for the 2nd half of your month of January enjoyment, here's the Red Wings' January Schedule Desktop Wallpaper from LetsGoWings.com

Posted by Phil Randolph at 08:27:00 AM, in  Wings  | Permalink - Better really late than never - Red Wings January Schedule Desktop Wallpaper | Comments (0)

This is what I've currently got as my pre-planned session schedule for Lotusphere 2010.

Of course as you know, things always get changed up in the midst of the week as priorities shift and other stuff comes up.

No slight intended to those whose sessions aren't on this list, you all know there is just too much to cover by 1 person, or even 5 people!

Sunday

08:00 am - 10:00 am - JMP 102 - Top Things For New Domino Developers - SW  7 - 10 <- I know I'm not a new developer, but you never know what new tips you may pick up, and besides... It's Kathy's first time presenting! ;-)

10:30 am - 12:30 pm - JMP201 - IBM Lotus Sametime for Web 2.0 - SW 7 - 10

01:30 pm - 03:30 pm - SHOW112 - How to Build an XPages Application from Start to Finish - SW Osprey

04:00 pm - 06:00 pm - JMP106 - "Kum Bah Yah" Meets "Let's Kick Butt": The Integration of IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino with Microsoft Office, .NET, and IBM Lotus Symphony - SW 7 - 10

06:15 pm - 07:15 pm - TURT101 - The Turtle's Guide To Lotusphere 2010 - DL S. Hemisphere III

Monday

8:00 am - 10:00 am (give or take...) -  OGS101 Lotusphere Opening General Session - DL Northern/Southern Hemisphere

11:00 am - 12:00 pm - BP108 - Worst Practices 4.0: "Orlando, We Have a Problem" - SW 5 - 6

01:00 pm - 02:00 pm - KEY104 - IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Strategy and the Future of the Desktop" - DL N. Hemisphere A - E

02:15 pm - 03:15 pm - AD307 - Web 2.0 Development with IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5 Services - SW 1 - 2

03:45 pm - 04:45 pm - AD101R - IBM Lotus Domino Designer: Full Speed Ahead! - SW 7 - 10

05:00 pm - 06:00 pm - AD202 - What's New in Composite Applications in IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.1 - DL S. Hemisphere II

Tuesday

08:30 am - 09:30 am - BP210 - The Great Code Giveaway 9: Never Gonna Let You Down - SW 7 - 10

10:00 am - 11:00 am - KEY101 -  The Lotus Application Development Strategy - DL N. Hemisphere A - E

11:30 am - 12:15 pm - NERD101 - "Nerd Girl": The Panel's Revenge - SW Mockingbird

01:30 pm - 02:30 pm - BP207 - Make Your XPage Apps "Pop!" with CSS and Themes - SW 7 - 10

03:00 pm - 04:00 pm - BP212 - Delivering IBM Lotus Domino to Mobile Devices: Top 10 Mobile Browser Dev Tricks - and More! - SW 5 - 6

04:30 pm - 05:45 pm - AD204 - What's New in IBM Lotus Notes Widgets and LiveText - DL S. Hemisphere I

Wednesday

08:30 am - 09:30 am - BP213 - Apple iPhone Development Served Two Ways: Extending Lotus Domino Apps to the Cool Kids - SW Pelican

10:00 am - 11:00 am - AD113 - IBM Lotus Notes Discussion Template: Next Generation and Other OpenNTF Assets - DL S. Hemisphere I

11:15 am - 12:15 pm - BP205R - "I'm a Programmer Not a Firefighter!": The Low Maintenance "Notes Shop". - DL S. Hemisphere III

01:30 pm - 02:30 pm - BP206 - Let's Give Your LotusScript a Tune-Up - SW 5 - 6

03:00 pm - 04:00 pm - AD108R - XPages in the IBM Lotus Notes Client - A Deep Dive! - DL N. Hemisphere D - E

04:15 pm - 05:15 pm - INV107 - An Oral History of IBM Lotus Notes: The First Twenty Years - DL N. Hemisphere A - C

Thursday

08:30 am - 09:30 am - BP208 - Manipulating Time and Space: Adding C&S Functionality to Your Applications - SW 5 - 6

10:00 am - 11:45 am - SHOW110 - Import! Export! Write a Report! Access Lotus Notes Data in Ways of All Sorts! - SW Osprey

11:30 am - 12:30 pm - GURU101 - GURUpalooza! - SW 5 - 10 <- I'll join this already in progress after previous session finishes

01:45 pm - 02:45 pm - ASK101 - Ask the Developers - SW 5 - 10

03:15 pm - 04:30 pm - CGS101 - Closing General Session - DL N. Hemisphere A - E

Posted by Phil Randolph at 11:50:00 AM, in  Lotusphere2010  LS10  | Permalink - My Planned Lotusphere 2010 Session Schedule | Comments (4)

Oooooh... I'm so excited.  Can this next month go REALLY QUICKLY please?

There's less than a month now until the start of Lotusphere 2010

Looking forward to all the great content, presenters (http://twitter.com/Lotusphere/ls10-speakers) and all the networking and socializing that come with our yearly week in Orlando.

Just pulled down the first version (0.1) of the Lotusphere 2010 Sessions Database and will begin putting my session attendance schedule together in earnest over the coming days and weeks. Now I know it's getting really close.

Can't wait to see you guys, and it'll all start with B.A.L.D. on Saturday afternoon!  Will you be the first one I see there?

Posted by Phil Randolph at 08:52:00 AM, in  Lotusphere  | Permalink - Less than a month now... | Comments (0)

More excellent artwork by my kids - my own unique creations ;-)

Zach's:

Katie's:

Posted by Phil Randolph at 08:25:00 AM, in  Zach  Katelyn  | Permalink - Unique Creations | Comments (0)

The Red Wings' December Schedule Desktop Wallpaper was posted a couple days back.  Nice to see Pavel as the featured player this month!

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:21:00 AM, in  Wings  | Permalink - Red Wings December Schedule Desktop Wallpaper | Comments (0)

Yesterday's push-ups workout put the streak at 31 days and therefore 3,100 pushups since starting on October 30th.  The total since start over a year ago is closing on 23,000!

This has been working SOOO much better for me than those long grueling 250+ push-up, 9 set workouts that would stretch up to 40-45 minutes.  I can usually kick the 100 out in 10 or 15 minutes, depending on how distracted I get by other stuff or if I am multi-tasking in between the sets.

I've only come close to forgetting to do them one time, and for that one just after laying down in bed I thought. "Doht! Can't skip the push-ups or my streak will have ended before it really began."  So I got out of bed and in about 10 more minutes was already back in bed.

Hoping I can keep this up... Would love for the streak to keep continuing for quite a while!

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:26:00 AM, in  100 Pushups  | Permalink - The streak is still going... | Comments (2)

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:23:00 AM, in  Katelyn  | Permalink - Fall-time artwork | Comments (0)

Can't believe I've had this blog out here for 4 years...

Lite on the content and posts lately, surely due to the miriad of other ways to communicate in near real-time with all my world-wide dispersed friends and colleagues.  Oh, and of course there is the fact that I'm not posting the daily or near-daily push-up workout recaps any more.

(Streak is at 22 days in a row now by the way...)

I think I have a few contributions in the queue that I just need to take the time to flesh out, so be watching!

Posted by Phil Randolph at 08:59:00 AM, in  Blogging  | Permalink - It’s already that time again... 4 year Blogiversary | Comments (5)

November's Red Wings Schedule Desktop Wallpaper was released yesterday at LetsGoWings.com

Posted by Phil Randolph at 10:15:00 AM, in  Wings  | Permalink - Red Wings November Schedule Desktop Wallpaper | Comments (1)

Heading upstairs to finally get back to a push-ups workout after once again putting it off for over a week, I got to thinking...

Why do I talk myself into not doing these workouts anymore?  Does it take too long? Does it hurt too much? Am I just tired of doing them at this point since I've been doing them for over a year?

The answer really is probably little bits of each of these things: 

• I tell myself I won't have enough time to fit it in either at home or in the office.
• I remember how much my muscles were screaming at me the last time I finished that final set of 50 or 60.
• I think, well, I've done it for so long, putting them off a little longer won't hurt anything...

Based on this, I'm going to take a different tack to keeping consistent, and I'm borrowing it from your friend and mine - Kathy Brown.

Instead of these mammoth workouts 3 times a week, I'm going to commit myself to doing 100 push-ups every day, for as long as I can keep the streak going.  This will actually work out to be very close in number of pushups done over a week's time, so I really shouldn't be falling behind the pace that I had been on for so long, except for pushups per workout.

The perseverance Kathy has shown in running every day for now OVER 150 DAYS is truly amazing and I can only hope to achieve anywhere close to as long a streak as she has and is continuing to do.

For today I went with 10/15/20/25 and 30 as my set numbers, and I think I'll stick with that a while and see how it goes. It still is requiring me to do pretty healthy numbers of pushups at a time, and I'm trying to only take a minute or 90 seconds in between sets to keep the workout duration short. Today it was only about 15 minutes including changing into and out of my workout clothes.

So, the streak is at 1 day, where will it end? Hopefully not at a single digit...will it make it into the 3 digits? Who knows? But I think this way of going at it will work out better for me in the long run and allow me to stay motivated to do the workouts, which is really the main point, and not so much the numbers.

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Oh, and by the way, I'm also planning to NOT be posting about these daily workouts on my blog anymore.   I'd like to get back to posting more Lotus/Domino Dev, Technology and other types of info on an ongoing basis, and not having my fallback posts about push-ups to fill the space up may help out in that area too.  This is not to say you won't hear anything about the push-ups streak progress elsewhere, I do have another outlet of course.

Posted by Phil Randolph at 01:00:00 PM, in  General  | Permalink - Changing things up a bit, for the better | Comments (2)