Lotusscript Code - HTML retrieval class
Wed, May 23rd 2012 2:44p Karl-Henry Martinsson I saw a question in the DeveloperWorks forum about retrieving a HTML page (in that case in order to get some data out of it), and realized that I never posted my HTML retrieval class...
So without further ado, here it is. It should be fairly self-documenting... Create a new object, then call the GetHTTP method with a URL to get a string representing the HTML code of that URL.
Class RemoteHTML
Private httpObject As Variant
Public httpStatus As Integer
Public Sub New()
Set h [read] Keywords:
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How IBM could make my life a little easier
Thu, May 17th 2012 11:23a Karl-Henry Martinsson Dear IBM,
I like that I now can use database icons with more than 16 fixed colors. I have updated pretty much all our applications (or is it called databases again?) with new and modern looking icons. The users likes it too.
However, with the old icon editor,it was easy to use the flood-fill tool to add a (in my case red) background to all templates. This made it very easy to differentiate between applications and templates. There is no option like that when I use the new database icons, I h [read] Keywords: domino
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YUI3: Poweful Javascript Framework
Tue, May 15th 2012 4:04p Karl-Henry Martinsson Last week I came up with a small side project. It was basically a simple web chat, working pretty much like the comments on a blog. I decided to build this as a classic Domino application, not using Xpages. I started development Wednesday mid-afternoon, and the application needed be done Thursday evening, and I of course had my regular job to do. So I could not justify spending the time I needed to learn doing it in Xpages, and then try to write CSS to get it to look like I wanted it. So there y [read] Keywords: agent
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[Code] - Mail Merge/Form Letters in Lotuscript
Fri, May 4th 2012 11:14a Karl-Henry Martinsson Back in 2003 or so, I wrote some code to take a form letter (stored in a Notes document) and merge that with data stored in another Notes document in order to create a personalized letter that could be printed or emailed. Back then we were still on Notes 5, so very limited rich text functionality and no budget to purchase Ben's excellent Midas LSX. The end result worked, but any formatting in the form letter template was lost.
Eventually we upgraded to Notes 7 and letar to Notes 8.5. Now I [read] Keywords: domino
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Samsung Galaxy S3 released - Will it live up to the hype?
Fri, May 4th 2012 9:04a Karl-Henry Martinsson Yesterday Samsung presented the new Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone in London. Samsung had been very secretive about the new phone, and speculations on the internet were wild. Some of the rumors were true, while some were not. So will this be an iPhone contestor?
The predecessor, Galaxy S2, have been a big success for the company who recently took the title of biggest phone manufacturer in the world. Early reviews of the S3 have been mainly positive. The main complain is the plastic case, which m [read] Keywords: apple
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Ubuntu 12.04 to be released tomorrow
Wed, Apr 25th 2012 1:04p Karl-Henry Martinsson The next version of the Linux distribution Ubuntu is scheduled to be available for download tomorrow, April 26. Ubuntu 12.04 will be a so called LTS (Long Term Support) version, which means that it will be supported longer than the regular versions. For 12.04 the support will last for five years, both for the server and the desktop version. Previous LTS-releases were supported for five years for the server version, but only three years for desktop. Non-LTS-releases are supported for 18 months af [read] Keywords: admin
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Samsung Galaxy S3 to be announced May 3
Tue, Apr 24th 2012 1:03p Karl-Henry Martinsson After weeks of speculations, it seems like Samsung will unveil their latest smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S3, at an event in London om May 3 called "Samsung Mobile Unpacked". Invitations have been sent out to media and a website with a teaser video is now available.
Samsung also released an app for the Unpacked event, where there is a reference to "Samsung Galaxy S3". The predecessor is of course Samsung Galaxy S II (with roman numerals), and there have been some discussions if Samsung wi [read] Keywords: apple
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Google Drive released
Tue, Apr 24th 2012 1:03p Karl-Henry Martinsson Google's cloud storage product Google Drive has now been announced. I am however still on a waiting list, as it seems like Google is adding users little by little, so I have not been able to test it yet.
Google Drive is a service similar to Dropbox. You get 5GB storage for free, and additional 25GB for $2.49/month. Clients are available for Mac, PC and Android phones, and a version for iPad/iPhone is coming, according to Google. The service let you access your documents from different devi [read] Keywords: google
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Birthday Cake - Swedish Style
Sun, Mar 4th 2012 3:43p Karl-Henry Martinsson I wanted to share the recipie for the cake I made this weekend. It is very easy to make, and tastes great. Mix 6 eggs and 3dl (a little over over 1 cup) of sugar, beet it until fluffy. Mix 1.5 dl (9 tablespoons) flour and 1.5 dl corn starch (potato flour in Europe) in a bowl, add 3 tablespooons of baking powder and mix well. Fold this into the egg/sugar mix, stir gently until the batter is smooth. Cover the inside of a baking pan with butter and then breadcrumbs. Pour in the batter and place i [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Former Outlook User Who Loves Notes
Thu, Feb 23rd 2012 9:17p Karl-Henry Martinsson The other week we had a new executive start at my work. I stopped by her office today and offered to help her with Notes if she had any problems. I asked if she had used Notes before, and she said no, she came from an Outlook shop. So I asked her what she thought about Notes this far.
She told me that the mail experience was very close to Outlook, with sortable columns, etc. She als told me that she really like the action buttons with dropdowns for reply, etc. The fact that different windows a [read] Keywords: lotus
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Samsung vs Apple
Thu, Feb 23rd 2012 9:08p Karl-Henry Martinsson This spring is gearing up to be very interesting. The rumors are flying about both an upcoming new iPad and a new Samsung Galaxy Tab.
According to the rumors, Samsung will launch the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.6 at Mobile World Contress in Barcelona at the end of this month. The new tablet will (again unconfirmed) have a 11.6 inch screen with a resolution of 2560x1600 and be powered by a 2GHz dual-core Exynos 5250 processor. Some rumors talk about a quad-core processor, but I personally find th [read] Keywords: apple
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What's in a Name?
Sat, Feb 18th 2012 11:27a Karl-Henry Martinsson The discussion about the IBM rebranding of different products, including removing "Lotus" from a number of products, have me got thinking. What is really in a name? Well, a product name is really not that different from a person name. We have a firstname/surname which is our identity, and a lastname/family which indicate what family or group we belong to. In some cultures the family name is listed first, but the idea is the same. Sometimes we also have a nickname that we are know as, or that o [read] Keywords: domino
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Robert A Heinlein: Revisiting a Childhood Favorite
Sat, Feb 18th 2012 10:22a Karl-Henry Martinsson During the last couple of weeks I have revisited some of the sci-fi classics I read when I was young. Robert A Heinlein was always one of my favorites. In what would be considered middle school in the US (4th-6th grade) we had one hour each week when the class was reading whatever book we had picked out in the library. At one time, I think it was in 5th grade, I read the Swedish translation of "Have Space Suit -- Will Travel". The other week I listened to this book as an audio book. This one w [read] Keywords: archiving
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Using Lotusscript Lists For Counters
Mon, Jan 23rd 2012 4:43p Karl-Henry Martinsson How many times do you not want to count the number of documents you process, perhaps even a few different counters? Today I was working on a Lotusscript agent where I wanted to keep track of the total number of documents processed, as well as individual counters for a few different types of documents. Normally I would have used a handful of variables, but I realized that I could use lists for this.
This is what my old code would look like:
Dim cnt As Long
Dim totcnt As Long
Dim type1cnt a [read] Keywords: agent
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Apple Cake: The Drink
Sun, Jan 22nd 2012 7:23p Karl-Henry Martinsson I brought some of my home-made Apple Cake drink to Lotusphere, and I had many people ask me how it is made. It is not hard at all, it just takes some time. You need the following: 75 cl vodka (that is one regular bottle), and I recommend Absolut 40% (or even 50% if you want it stronger). 30 cl (that is about 10 fl oz) concentrated apple juice. I used one can of defrosted frozen juice concentrate. 3-4 tablespoons granulated sugar. 3 tablespoons of vanilla sugar. It can be purchased at the neares [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotusphere 2012 - Day 4 (Wednesday)
Fri, Jan 20th 2012 8:43a Karl-Henry Martinsson The busiest day this far. The day started with a keynote session, featuring among others Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of World Wide Web. He spoke out against the SOPA and PIPA laws, coincidentally on the same day that Wikipedia, Google and other sites went black in a protest against the proposed US censorship laws. He encouraged everyone to mail their representative to denounce the laws. Then he procede to discuss the Semantic Web, and how data can be aggregated from many sources but must be t [read] Keywords: agent
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Lotusphere 2012 - Day 3 (Tuesday)
Wed, Jan 18th 2012 3:23p Karl-Henry Martinsson A busy day at Lotusphere. It started with a keynote about how Social affects business. The messge was that leadership matters, a dedicated team must take point. Social is not an IT function/project, it needs to involve departments liek HR, legal and of course IT. If you engage the employees, they will be a huge resource. The example given was when TD Bank decided to be open 7 day a week, the reaction from the workforce would probably been negative. But by using social capabilities and transparen [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2012 - Day 1 (Sunday)
Tue, Jan 17th 2012 11:23a Karl-Henry Martinsson Sunday is now officially the first day of Lotusphere, with Jumpstart sessions and (of course) the welcome reception at night. I had a full day's schedule, and went to four great sessions. JMP102 - Introduction to Java for IBM Lotus Domino Developers, by the excellent Paul Calhoun. I can't say I know Java, even if I did write some code many years ago. This session made me very excited about taking another look at Java, in order to add that language to my toolbox. JMP103 - "How Stuff Works" IB [read] Keywords: administration
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Lotusphere 2012 - Day 0 (Saturday)
Tue, Jan 17th 2012 8:03a Karl-Henry Martinsson After getting up early in the morning, I boarded my flight from DFW to Orlando. As usual I flew American Airlines, but for the first time they had WiFi on the plane. So I was able to stay connected even on the flight, keeping track of how all my friends and contacts in the Lotus community were arriving to Orlando as well, from all over the world. Some had already arrived on Friday, and they shared weather info and other tidbits with the rest of us. During the approach to Orlando, I was even able [read] Keywords: lotus
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On My Way to Lotusphere
Sat, Jan 14th 2012 7:03a Karl-Henry Martinsson On Flight AA1434 DFW to MCO. Should be at Swolphin around noon. Can't wait for Lotusphere 2012 to start! I have high hopes for the OGS, hope IBM delivers. Looking forward to see all my friends again, and make new ones. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Code: Example of how to use Windows Clipboard in a Notes application
Wed, Jan 4th 2012 12:23p Karl-Henry Martinsson As I promised in my previous entry, I will show how to use the Windows clipboard functionality in a Notes application.
We have a knowledgebase, where information for different departments is posted. A very typical and simpel Notes application, in other words. But some users requested a simpler way to create nice doclinks, so I listened and created two buttons on the document form.
The first button is 'Copy Link', it will simply collect information about the open document (database s [read] Keywords: notes
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Code: Accessing Windows Clipboard
Wed, Jan 4th 2012 10:43a Karl-Henry Martinsson Several years ago, I found some code to access the Win32 functions for the Windows Clipboard. I don't remember where I found it, who wrote it or if it was VB code that I modified or already written for Lotusscript. I rewrote the the code as a class and put it in a script library called "Class.Win32.ClipBoard". The complete code is listed below. In my next blog entry I will describe how I am using this class for some very convenient functions.
Option Public
Option Declare
D [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Getting ready for Lotusphere
Tue, Jan 3rd 2012 9:03p Karl-Henry Martinsson It is just over 10 days before I leave for Lotusphere 2012 in Orlando.
Lotusphere is the best part of my professional year. I get to meet all my friends and talk code and products and ideas all week with people that know what I talk about. I also have access to a team of incredible bright people at IBM, so if you have not taken advantage of the fact that you can go to the "Meet the Developers" lab. The lab has been located at the right of the elevators down to the showcase, in Asia 1 and 2 ( [read] Keywords: ibm
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14 Years Ago...
Tue, Jan 3rd 2012 1:23p Karl-Henry Martinsson This Sunday it was 14 years ago I stepped onto an airplane in Stockholm, Sweden. In the morning hourse of January 1, 1998, my dad and my sister took me to the airport for my move to the US. I had married Angie back in August, and soon after that she told me she wanted to move back to the US. I applied for and got a resident visa (green card) and got a job with IDG in Boston. Initially we had planned to move to Seattle, but when I was offered the job in Boston I took that one instead.
Some 18 h [read] Keywords: lotus
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Free Tool: Clean your NAB
Tue, Jan 3rd 2012 1:03p Karl-Henry Martinsson As a follow-up to my previous tool that let you analyze the ACL of a database, I built another tool for my admin. For different reasons, we need to keep the mailbox of terminated users, sometimes for a shorter time but sometimes for long periods of time. As far as I understand it, if a traditional approach was used to remove a user from the system, the mail file would also be deleted. So the admin put the terminated user in the Deny Access group and change the ACL of the mailfile to include a ma [read] Keywords: acl
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Norwegian TV pwned
Wed, Dec 28th 2011 4:03p Karl-Henry Martinsson The news in the Norwegian TV channel NRK recently talked about testing the vision for elderly, the illustration for the test was picked from teh Internet. Obviously nobody looked closer at it before the broadcast...
I am sure most readers of this blog understand what's so funny... The news anchors did not. [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Why my next phone will not be a Blackberry
Fri, Dec 16th 2011 10:02a Karl-Henry Martinsson I like my Blackberry. I currently have a Blackberry Bold 9700, and I am happy with many things. But it is almost 2 years old and it is time to look for a replacement. And after almost 4 years of being a Blackberry user, my next phone will probably be something else.
But why? The Bold has been praised multiple times by people like Vowe. The screen is excellent. It has a real keyboard, and most people (including me) think that is the best physical keyboard on the market. Well, there are several [read] Keywords: apple
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Trend Micro: Google is most insecure
Wed, Nov 16th 2011 10:21a Karl-Henry Martinsson According to Trend Micro's Third Quarter Threat Report, Google had 82 vulnerabilities during the third quarter 2011. Oracle had 63, followed by Microsoft with 58, Apple with 49, Adobe with 42 and Mozilla and IBM both with 39 during the same period.
In other news: University of Dayton and General Motors are moving from Lotus Notes to Google Mail, while the CIO at the City of Los Angeles demands that Groupwise "be hauled out of its coffin, given a quick slap and defibrillation, and pressed [read] Keywords: ibm
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Free Tool: Analyze ACL in Notes Application/Database
Tue, Nov 15th 2011 11:03a Karl-Henry Martinsson Yesterday my network admin asked me if I could write a simple tool that could provide him with with a spreadsheet of what users had access to a certain database, and through what groups and roles. A couple of hours later I had created an agent that analyze the ACL and identify the users who can access it. The result is presented as a CSV file.
I am sharing the code below. It is pretty straight forward. As you can see, I am using lists to hold the data for easy export later to CSV. Run the code [read] Keywords: acl
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The DRM graveyard: A brief history of digital rights management in music
Mon, Nov 7th 2011 3:03p Karl-Henry Martinsson Very interesting.
There are more than a few reasons digital rights management (DRM) has been largely unsuccessful. But the easiest way to explain to a consumer why DRM doesn't work is to put it in terms he understands: "What happens to the music you paid for if that company changes its mind?" It was one thing when it was a theoretical question. Now it's a historical one. Rhapsody just had the next in a line of DRM music services to go--this week the company told its users than any [read] Keywords:
Re: Lotusscript: Mail Notification Class - followup
Wed, Nov 2nd 2011 2:03p Karl-Henry Martinsson In response to: Lotusscript: Mail Notification Class
I also want to bring attention to how I am using lists in the class. The different sets of recipients (To, CC and BCC) are all stored in lists. The name/email is both the list tag and the value, e.g. p_sendto("texasswede@gmail.com") = "texasswede@gmail.com".
There are several benefits of using lists. First of all, it is very easy to add items to a list. When using an array you need to redim it (using ReDim Preserve in order not to [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Lotusscript: Mail Notification Class
Wed, Nov 2nd 2011 12:43p Karl-Henry Martinsson Back in August 2009, I posted a small class I had created to make it easier for me to create mail notifications in my Lotusscript agents. Since then I have improved on it, and I wanted to poste the latest version. One recent feature I added is to send external mail to the internet that looks like it is coming from a different user. This is often needed when you have an agent signed with a developer/admin ID, but you want the mail to look like it is coming from a particular department or user.
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Update - Ernst & Young moving to Exchange
Mon, Oct 31st 2011 9:56p Karl-Henry Martinsson As the article in Computer Sweden now have been published, I reposted my blog entry about Ernst & Young migrating 150,000 users world wide from Notes to Exchange.
IBM in Sweden is not commenting to Computer Sweden, but Ernst & Young have been using Lotus Notes since the mid-1990's and have been considered a major Notes account. In this first step only the email will be migrated, and it is unclear if applications will eventually be moved as well.
My personal analysis (as I wrote i [read] Keywords: ibm
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Happy Halloween!
Sun, Oct 30th 2011 9:58p Karl-Henry Martinsson A couple of years ago, I carved a Gollum pumpkin, and the year before I created a stormtrooper pumpkin. For the last few years I did not get around to carve anything, but this year I decided I would do something fun again. I ended up carving two pumpkins, and the result is below. [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Tip of the Week: Open a Hidden View in Notes
Fri, Oct 28th 2011 2:23p Karl-Henry Martinsson Earlier today I talked to someone who needed to delete a large number of ToDo entries in his mail file. I suggested to use either Ytria scanEZ or Martin-Scott NoteMan. As he did not have those tools installed on the machine he was working op, he thought about creating a hidden view and simple delete the documents from there.
When he opened up the design, he found a hidden view that would work, but he did not remember how to open it in the Notes client. I use this all the time, as I have severa [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Re: Using Lotusscript lists to increase performance
Fri, Oct 28th 2011 10:00a Karl-Henry Martinsson In response to: Using Lotusscript lists to increase performance
I now modified the code to use NotesViewEntry.ColumnValues() to get the value I am looking for. I also had to add a column displaying that field in my view.
The code actually took longer, 370 seconds, but all that was in the calls to doc.Save(). The actual lookup went from a total of 15 seconds down to just below 5 seconds.
So let's remove the time-consuming doc.Save() command, just to see what the actual execution t [read] Keywords: agent
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Sony buying out Ericsson
Thu, Oct 27th 2011 4:23p Karl-Henry Martinsson Sony is buying out the Swedish telecom company Ericsson's share in Sony Ericsson, the mobile phone company they created back in 2001. Sony is paying Ericsson 1.05 billion Euros in cash for their 50% share of the company. Reports also say that Sony is planning to change the name of Sony Ericsson in the future.
Press release here. [read] Keywords: mobile
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Using Lotusscript lists to increase performance
Thu, Oct 27th 2011 9:36a Karl-Henry Martinsson Earlier this week I had to write an agent to read a CSV file and create Notes documents based on the content. Nothing difficult, this is something most of us do all the time. However, each entry in the CSV file had a producer code. I needed to do a lookup into the database and get the matching producer (also called agency) document and read a particular field from it. This field had to be stored in the new document I was creating, to tie the new entries to an existing producer/agency.
There we [read] Keywords: agent
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Ernst & Young moving 150,000 users from Notes to Exchange
Wed, Oct 26th 2011 9:23a Karl-Henry Martinsson At least that is what is indicated if you look at Neil Langston's profile at LinkedIn...
Supposedly it is a mail-only migration (according to my source), they will keep their Notes/Domino applications. So the end result is just the purchase of new servers and additional licenses being paid to Microsoft. I am sure Microsoft will spin this as a win for them and a loss for IBM, but I don't see IBM losing any money. If Ernst & Young is paying maintenance today, they will most probably [read] Keywords: domino
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Another Pioneer Lost: Dennis Richie 1941-2011
Thu, Oct 13th 2011 9:53a Karl-Henry Martinsson This morning I woke up to the news that Dennis Richie died a couple of days ago. Some of my readers may not know who he was, he was never a showman like Steve Jobs, or took part in product launches. None the less, he was one of the big names and early pioneers in IT.
Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, and as co-author of the definitive book on C, The C Programming Language, commonly referred to as K&R (in [read] Keywords: application
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Samsung Nexus Prime - Verizon exclusive?
Thu, Oct 6th 2011 4:03p Karl-Henry Martinsson Additional details about the upcoming release from Samsung of the Nexus prime, the first phone with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) have been published on some websites.
The new phone, which is expected be be unveiled next week, has a 4.65" display with 1280x720 resolution, a 5MP camera, 1 GB of system RAM and 32 GB of built-in user memory. The dual-core processor is running 1.2 GHz or 1.5 GHz (according to what source one listen to). Reports claims that it is an LTE (Long Term Evolution) ph [read] Keywords: network
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Steve Jobs - Gone but not Forgotten
Thu, Oct 6th 2011 9:42a Karl-Henry Martinsson I have never owned a Macintosh, iPod, iPhone or iPad. I have however used different products from Apple over the years. I have even used the NeXT.
Back in 1983 (if I remember correctly), I spent a week in a German school (my mom had this idea about sending me to Germany to stay with relatives or friends for a few weeks every summer to improve my German), and in their computer room they had Apple IIe that I got to play around with a little. I was programming on a similar computer (the Swedish A [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusscript frustrations...
Mon, Aug 22nd 2011 11:12a Karl-Henry Martinsson This morning I ran into a problem that frustrated me to no end, until I finally figured it out. The answer was of course in the online help...
I had a class that processed people associated with a file. Each person is assigned (in creation order) a number, starting with 1. The class load the person documents when the class is initiated, and store the info in an array.
What happend is that I got the "Subscript out of range" error on a particular file. What I found was that it had 10 person [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Create and update Calendar reminders from Notes document
Thu, Aug 11th 2011 4:57p Karl-Henry Martinsson At work I was asked yesterday if I could give the users a button to set reminders for meetings/actions directly from a document in one of our Notes applications. So I created a simple solution where I added two action buttons and a field to the form from which the calendar entry (reminder) would be created.
I wanted to share this code. It is nothing complicated, and the main functionality consists of some code Palmi Lord posted in LDD last year.
The new field on the form is called 'Calen [read] Keywords: ldd
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Dynamic tables in classic Notes
Tue, Aug 9th 2011 12:58p Karl-Henry Martinsson Using Xpages, you can do many neat things in Notes. But I am still doing all my development in classic Notes, despite being on Notes/Domino 8.5.2. The reason is simple. Memory. There is just not enough memory to run the standard client in our Citrix environment, so all users are using the basic client. And Xpages is not working in the basic client.
So how do I solve issues like multiple documents tied to a main document, being displayed inline in the main document? Well, I solved this a long t [read] Keywords: agent
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Vacation Memories: Royal Castle in Stockholm
Tue, Aug 2nd 2011 9:42p Karl-Henry Martinsson During my vacation I took a tour of the Royal Castle in Stockholm. Despite living in the Stockholm area for 28 years, and then going back top visit pretty much every year, I had still never taken a tour of the actual castle. This year I remedied this, and while I walked through the rooms I took some pictures. I am posting some of them below. Due to the dark interior, and in some cases the bright sunshine outside, I used High Dynamic Range (HDR) to bring out details and contrast. Enjoy! [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Vacation Memories: Denmark
Sun, Jul 31st 2011 1:42p Karl-Henry Martinsson I have been on vacation in my native home country Sweden, but now I am back in the USA and Texas, after two and a half weeks of meeting family and friends, eating some great food as well as experiencing and seeing a number of new things. One of the most emotional things on this trip was one of those new experiences. As I written about before, I am named after my uncle Karl-Heinz, who was killed in the last days of WWII. He is buried in Copenhagen, as he died while being treated for his wounds at [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Cheese Cake - Swedish style
Thu, Jun 16th 2011 1:22p Karl-Henry Martinsson In Sweden we have a dish called ostkaka, which translates to "cheese cake". It should not be confused with the American cheese cake, A better name might be "curd cake".
This dessert was for a long time one of the things from Sweden I missed living in Texas. However, a few years ago I remembered that we made it in school (in Sweden home economics/cooking is a mandatory subject in Junior High School), and I found a recipe that worked for me. Over the last year I have been making this dish a [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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The Lord of The Rings (Extended Edition) and Star Wars coming on Blu-ray
Mon, Jun 13th 2011 1:22p Karl-Henry Martinsson A couple of interesting Blu-ray are scheduled for this fall.
The Lord of The Rings Extended Edition will be released on June 28. The three movies are probably my favourites. However, it seems like there are really not many extras compared to the DVD Extended Collectors Edition I already own on DVD, so the only reason to purchase this set would be for the picture quality.
Star Wars: The Complete Saga is scheduled to be released on September 16. The box will include all six movies (Episode I-V [read] Keywords:
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Memorial Day
Tue, May 31st 2011 8:42a Karl-Henry Martinsson Today the United States is celebrating Memorial Day, a day when the fallen soldiers are remembered/honored. In November, Veterans Day is celebrated, honoring all men and women who served in the US military.
I am originally from Sweden, a neutral country who have not been in a formal war since 1809. Despite this, Swedish soldiers have fought and died in several wars since then, though. In 1940, many Swedes volunteered to help Finland in the Winter War against the invading Soviet Union.
In the [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Icon Collection for Notes Applications
Tue, May 24th 2011 3:02p Karl-Henry Martinsson As of Notes 8.5.2 the Notes client now support pretty database icons, using the PNG format. A handful of icons have been released on OpenNTF.org by Mary Beth Raven, but I have been looking for more. I found a nice set of icons yesterday, and I wanted to share the link. I can not find any info on the pages regarding copyright, but I have mailed the page owner and asked if the icons happens to be licensed as CC or GPL. In the mean time, I decided to just try some of them on a couple of my ex [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Product Review: Gillette Thermal Face Scrub
Sat, May 21st 2011 10:22a Karl-Henry Martinsson This is a non-technology related post, but I wanted to share my experiences with this particular product. I have always been shaving with a razor and gel, that is how my dad did it and I followed his lead. For the last 20 years, I have been using Gillette products. They simply worked the best for me. YMMV As a true geek, I have always been using their latest model of razors, and I am currently using the Fusion Proglide Power. A couple of weeks ago, I had to buy new blades (they are getting pret [read] Keywords:
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CrashPlan online backup
Thu, May 19th 2011 8:05a Karl-Henry Martinsson I have been thinking about using one of the many online/cloud services for backup of all my photos and some other important documents. Today I have them mirrored on an external USB drive, but in case something happens to my place, like fire or burglary, that drive will most probably also be gone. So an online service would make sense.There are a number of contenders out there. Carbonite and Mozy are perhaps the most high profile ones, because of their advertising. Mozy just switched from unlim [read] Keywords: domino
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Ubuntu 11.04 available for download
Thu, Apr 28th 2011 8:22a Karl-Henry Martinsson As of today, the latest version of Ubuntu is available for download. If you already have Ubuntu runing, the update manager will give you the option to upgrade your existing installation. If you want to perform a clean install, simply download and burn the ISO file for Ubuntu 11.04 (with the code name Natty Narwhal) from www.ubuntu.com. As always, you can install the new operating system next to Windows, keeping your existing operating system working. When I tried the update from within Ubunt [read] Keywords: lotus
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IBM Get Social Roadshow in Dallas
Wed, Apr 27th 2011 8:41a Karl-Henry Martinsson Below is a summary of the event I attended yesterday. It will mainly be quotes from the different speakers. Ed Brill, IBM (@edbrill) People want to do business with people. They like to know something about the person they do business with. When I started my blog, I had to decide what my online presence should be. Am I Ed Brill the IBM executive? Or Ed Brill the father, traveler and photographer? The answer is all of them. Historically, many companies (including IBM) had a policy that only the [read] Keywords: ibm
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Domino Designer for Eclipse
Wed, Apr 20th 2011 9:06a Karl-Henry Martinsson For the last few weeks, I have been working full-time in Domino Designer 8.5.2, the version based on Eclipse. I had previusly just been playing around some, but as we are upgrading to the latest version of Notes and Domino at work, I am now able to use this version almost exclusively. I am currently still doing only Classic Notes development, as we still have some users on Notes 7.0.2. Also, from what I understand, the performance of Xpages in the client is not fully where one wouold expect it. [read] Keywords: domino
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Domino Designer Frustrations
Wed, Mar 30th 2011 10:42a Karl-Henry Martinsson I have a database template (I am still on Notes 7.0.3, so I will keep using "database" for now), containing a number of forms, views, script libraries and agents. A whole lot of them, actually. Over the years I found out that occasionally I have to use the recompile all function to get changes in script libraries to be recognized. This is the result: Well, I open the forms (these are all forms) and save them again. No error/warning. I make some small changes to the code. No error/warning. [read] Keywords: domino
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Coolest Calculator Ever - and now you can have it!
Fri, Mar 25th 2011 1:02p Karl-Henry Martinsson I have been using HP calculators since the mid-70's, when my cousin (who worked for Hewlett-Packard in Sweden) brought an HP-21 to us. When I was in 8th grade and we finally were allowed to use calculators during math class, I purchased the HP-15C, a programmable scientific calculator. In 1987, when I was in high school, the HP-28C was released, and I got it as soon as it came out. The next year I upgraded to the improved HP-28S (32kB instead of 2kB and a 1 MHz processor instead of 640 kHz). Bo [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Creating pre-existing affinity by home usage
Fri, Mar 18th 2011 9:22a Karl-Henry Martinsson From Google Apps: A Love Story:Blame the consumerization of IT. BI-LOs users learned how to use Google Apps and similar Web applications in their personal lives. According to an internal company survey, 30% of employees already used Gmail at home and another 25% used a different Web-based e-mail service, like Windows Live Hotmail or Yahoo Mail. That familiarity translated into prior training -- training the company didn't have to pay for -- and pre-existing affinity for the cloud.In my eyes thi [read] Keywords: connections
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Today my mom would have turned 85
Wed, Mar 9th 2011 2:03p Karl-Henry Martinsson Today would have been the 85th birthday of my mom, Marie-Luise Martinsson (born Groeling). I recently posted a blog entry about her on the anniversary of her death.I am as old now as she was when I was born. Amazing how the time just keep passing, she has been gone longer than the times she was a part of my life. But I still remember her birthdays, how dad got her flowers and some nice gift. One year it was a nice stereo, my mom loved music and used to sing in the church choir. She also had a ni [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Chicken stuffed with creamed spinach and cheese
Wed, Mar 9th 2011 11:43a Karl-Henry Martinsson The other day I tried a new dish, and it turned out blog worthy. So here it is.Take five to six chicken breasts and trim off any fat. Cut an incision about 2 inches long (or just above) along one of the sides, to shape a pocket. I extend the cut section inside the chicken as close as the edges I can without cutting though, to make the pocket as big as possible.Microwave a tray of deep frozen spinach for 3 minutes. It should be soft but not cooked. Add some ground nutmeg and stir. Mix in a genero [read] Keywords:
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Memories
Fri, Mar 4th 2011 11:42a Karl-Henry Martinsson This week the children in the Stockholm region where I am from have sportlov (transl. "sports break"). This break from school goes back to World War II. Despite Sweden being neutral and not participating in the war directly, the rationing and lack of coal used to heat the schools became a problem. The solution was to close the schools for a week during the winter to conserve cost. Different activities were arranged for the out-of-school children, and quickly the activities were focused on outd [read] Keywords: wiki
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iPad 2 launched
Wed, Mar 2nd 2011 11:42a Karl-Henry Martinsson I am following the Apple event online right now, and the new iPad2 sounds impressive this far. Dual core processor, up to 9 times faster graphics, dual cameras (front and rear facing), gyroscope like in iPhone4 and iPod Touch, 1080p HDMI output, as well as 33% thinner is all very impressive. It even comes in two colors, white has been added. Steve Jobs claim the battery life is still 10 hours, like in the original iPad. The price will be identical as for the first generation iPad, starting at $4 [read] Keywords: apple
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The disease called "Perfection"
Sun, Feb 27th 2011 10:42a Karl-Henry Martinsson Stuart McIntyre just posted a blog entry that I think everyone should read. He is actually in turn re-posting a blog entry by Single Dad Laughing, who has given permission to repost it. So I will simply copy the full blog post below. It is fairly long, but I hope everyone that read this blog will read the full text. It really made me think, and I also recognize me in several sections. I am sure the same will happen to you.Thank you. As a warning, the following post was written in complete desper [read] Keywords: planetlotus
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Lotusphere 2011 Opening Session
Mon, Jan 31st 2011 6:43a Karl-Henry Martinsson This blog entry will be updated as the Opening General Session continues. Alistair Rennie opened Lotusphere (#ls11) - after saying "I love the smell of Lotusphere in the morning" - by introducing the 500 college students invited by GBS. He talked about the Notes customer General Motors and the Chevy Volt electrical car they brought to Lotusphere, and how it contains more code than an F-35 fighter. Then he introduced this years guest speaker, Kevin Spacey. Kevin Spacey is not just a film actor [read] Keywords: ibm
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Diary of a Lotusphere Widow - continued
Sun, Jan 30th 2011 12:03p Karl-Henry Martinsson Follow it here. Excerpt from Saturday's entry:So here it is day one of Lotusphere -- at least as far as I'm concerned. I realize the festivities don't actually start today, but today is when my Beloved takes off for Florida into this unknown behemoth cult party that involves a lot of alcohol and nerding out on badass topics. It like Woodstock, except 'knowledge' is the drug that is washed down with alcohol. How I wish Adobe held conferences like this -- from what I understand nobod [read] Keywords: ibm
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This day in 1987...
Fri, Jan 28th 2011 1:43p Karl-Henry Martinsson ...exactly one year after the Challenger disaster, I had a more personal loss. My mother, Marie-Luise Martinsson (born Groeling) suddenly and unexpectedly died, just a few weeks short of her 61st birthday. She was born in 1926 in Lauenburg in what was then Pommern. Since the end of WWII the town is called Lębork and belonging to Poland. My mom was just 19 years old when the war ended. She lost her only brother in the war and the oldest of her two younger sisters due to diphtheria the year after [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Diary of a Lotusphere Widow: Day -1
Fri, Jan 28th 2011 8:49a Karl-Henry Martinsson The lotus is so thick you can smell it in the air...He decides to volunteer me(?), uh, tell me(?), -- - I was 'Volun-told' that I should run to the store after work for one of his Lotusphere projects."Honey, why do *I* need to go there," I asked.Logical Beloved programmer says, "Because you're in that area and daycare is across the street."Now, while I am a logical sort, geek and programmer too, I'm still a girl... And I think I've been *super* cool about this Lotusphere cult/revival th [read] Keywords: ibm
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Diary of a Lotusphere Widow: Day -2
Thu, Jan 27th 2011 10:56a Karl-Henry Martinsson My beloved is a ... Lotusphere Geek. I can admit that. its not like he has some infectious... diseas...Get this -the man spent all night adjusting a QR code to ensure it was *perfect*. While I have no issue with that, I was somehow dragged into this pentacostal glossolalia -- through his chirping utterances about a Harry Potter theme park, the sound of the elevator at some place called "The Dolphin," and something about a very brilliant turtle. Confusion abounds, but this must be a ver [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Notes - Not dead here either!
Tue, Jan 25th 2011 1:43p Karl-Henry Martinsson Greyhawk68 just blogged about how Lotus is not dead at his employer. I just have to echo that. As late as yesterday the CIO and I were attending a meeting where the marketing department was discussing a way to track customer visits. The CEO was also there, and after a short discussion within the marketing group, he took command of the discussion. He explained that he in a previous position been creating some simple Notes databases, and that Notes would be the perfect vehicle for the kind of data [read] Keywords: domino
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How to find me at Lotusphere
Tue, Jan 25th 2011 10:46a Karl-Henry Martinsson I will be using several social networks while at Lotusphere. I just signed up for Gowalla, but I use Foursquare more. I am of course on twitter and Facebook, and you can message me there. But the easiest way is to mail me at texasswede@gmail.com, directly to my Blackberry.I am arriving Saturday a little after noon, and will be joining BALD at Big River Grille around 15:00. That's 3.00pm for Americans, when Mickey's big hand point at 12 and his little hand point at 3. :-)When I know my schedule [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Get the Blackberry Session Database now!
Mon, Jan 24th 2011 11:43a Karl-Henry Martinsson Tim and Gabriella of Turtle Partnership have once again built iPhone and Blackberry apps, which in turn are using Ben's excellent Session Database. The Blackberry app (version 1.6) can be downloaded right now from Tim's blog post, or later from the Blackberry App World. The iPhone and iPad versions have been submitted to the Apple App Store for approval. New for this version is that you now can check in using FourSquare and tweet your location using twitter directly from the app. [read] Keywords: apple
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In a week we will know...
Mon, Jan 24th 2011 10:23a Karl-Henry Martinsson ...what Lotus knows. In 164 hours a number of us will be sitting in the OGS at Lotupshere (follow it on twitter as #ls11) and hopefully learn what IBM is planning for the next few years. I hope we will see more of Project Vulcan and Notes/Domino 9, and of course learn about what the plans are for all the other products, like Connections, Quickr and Sametime. ...who the speaker at the OGS is. With the Wednesday party at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, would it not be cool to have a tie-in at [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotusphere Laptop Configuration (Part 1)
Wed, Jan 19th 2011 11:42a Karl-Henry Martinsson It is 10 days until wheels up for Lotusphere (#ls11), and I am finishing preparations of the laptop I will bring. After some headaches with dual boot (actually triple boot) between Windows XP and Ubuntu (this is material for a whole other blog entry!), I now have the operating systems running and most of the software installed.I realized that I need a copy of all my Notes templates on the laptop as well, in case I have to make any changes/updates while at Lotusphere. So how do I synchronize the [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Review - Blackberry OS6 on Bold 9700
Wed, Jan 12th 2011 9:33p Karl-Henry Martinsson Darren Adams blogged about his experience running the new OS6 on his Blackberry Bold 9700 earlier this week. I have also been running that version (a leaked version I found, 6.0.0.424 to be precise) for a while now. I will not reiterate everything Darren already told, please go and read his review as well. There are things I like, and things I don't like as much. There were also things that were annoying at first, but that I quickly got used to. I like the now home screen, with the expandable t [read] Keywords: lotus
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Bob Muglia forced to step down at Microsoft by Steve Ballmer
Tue, Jan 11th 2011 4:03p Karl-Henry Martinsson Bob Muglia, president of the servers and tools business at Microsoft, have been forced to step down after 23 years at the company. According to Computerworld and IDG News Service, Steve Ballmer wanted to accelerate the move into the cloud, and felt that Muglia was not the right person. According to DailyTech, the division run by Muglia have been successful, with $5.5 billion in profits for 2010. So obviously Steve Ballmer want to push Azure even harder, and Bob Muglia have been more cautio [read] Keywords: microsoft
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Lotusphere 2011 - Wednesday Party Location Revealed
Thu, Jan 6th 2011 6:46p Karl-Henry Martinsson As Andy "Macian" Donaldson reported on Facebook, this years Wednesday party will take place at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The park is brand new, it opened last June, but already during Lotusphere 2010 I blogged about the park as a potential venue for the 2011 party. John Head just visited the park in late December, and gave a good review on Twitter. He especially recommended the butter beer, which just the other day sold it's one millionth serving. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Wi-Fi Overload - Sounds Familiar?
Wed, Dec 29th 2010 3:02p Karl-Henry Martinsson pFrom a href=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/technology/29wifi.html target=_blankThe New York Times/a:/p blockquote pemThe problem is that Wi-Fi was never intended for large halls and thousands of people, many of them bristling with an arsenal of laptops, iPhones and iPads./em/p pemWi-Fi is meant for homes and other small spaces with more modest Internet demands, says Ernie Mariette, founder of Mariette Systems, which installs conference Wi-Fi. Youre asking a technology to operate beyond its c [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Microsoft Cloud Data Breach Heralds Things to Come
Tue, Dec 28th 2010 3:40p Karl-Henry Martinsson blockquote pemWhat might be the first major cloud data breach happened Wednesday. Microsoft announced that data contained within its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) has been /ema href=http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/214591/microsoft_bpos_cloud_service_hit_with_data_breach.htmlemdownloaded by non-authorized users/em/aem./em/p pemYoud better get used to this kind of thing because well be seeing a lot more of it in the future. All any of us can do is pray were not a victim./ [read] Keywords: microsoft
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Review - Canon Pixma MG6120 printer
Tue, Dec 28th 2010 2:40p Karl-Henry Martinsson pMy big Christmas gift was a new printer, a Canon a href=http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/printers_multifunction/photo_all_in_one_inkjet_printers/pixma_mg6120Pixma MG6120/a inkjet printer. It replaced my HP a href=http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=usamp;lc=enamp;product=1146331Photosmart C3180/a, which I have had for 3-4 years and who now refuse to feed paper. I have now had time to use the Canon printer for a few days, and below are my first impressions./p pThe printe [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Why the other line is likely to move faster
Tue, Dec 28th 2010 12:02p Karl-Henry Martinsson piframe class=youtube-player frameBorder=0 height=390 src=http://www.youtube.com/embed/F5Ri_HhziI0?rel=0amp;hd=1 title=YouTube video player type=text/html width=640 /br / /pp(via a href=http://www.facebook.com/anders.lotssonAnders Lotsson/a)/p [read] Keywords: facebook
Tis the Season for Chili
Tue, Dec 21st 2010 8:40a Karl-Henry Martinsson pSunday I made a batch of chili. I changed the recipe some, and it turned out really good. I use a href=http://www.walmart.com/ip/Wick-Fowler-s-2-Alarm-Kit-Chili-Mix-358-oz/10314625Wick Fowlers 2-Alarm Chili Kit/a as a base (about $1,68 in the grocery store), together with 2 lbs of lean ground beef (10% fat) and a few extra ingredients. The batch I made was actually double the recipe, so do not get confused by the pictures./ppa href=http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/texasswede/resource/WindowsLiv [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Lotusphere, here I come!
Thu, Dec 16th 2010 7:02p Karl-Henry Martinsson pI just got everything finalized for Lotusphere 2011. I managed to find a $155 roundtrip fare on a href=http://www.airtran.com target=_blankAirTran/a from Dallas to Orlando, and I got a room booked at Dolphin./p pa href=http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/idocheckin-launches-for-lotusphere-2011-ls11.htm target=_blankufont color=#810081IdoCheckin/font/u/a is back for the 3rd year, and as some of you in the community already may have noticed, I have been adding people on a href=http:/ [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Notes: 21 years old this week
Fri, Dec 10th 2010 6:40p Karl-Henry Martinsson pI am late to the party, but I also want to congratulate Lotus Notes on its 21st birthday on December 7. br /This is a product that is extremely powerful, simple to use and has a great community where I can always reach out for (and receive) help./p pThe other evening I was watching an episode of a href=http://www.topgear.com/uk/Top Gear/a (the UK version), where they tested three luxury sports salons. One of the cars tested was the a href=http://www.maserati.com/maserati/en/en/index/models/Quat [read] Keywords: lotus
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