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The other day, Philip Storry wrote "A lack of training, or a lack of intelligence", about someone sending a death threat to a professor who happens to be an atheist. This person (mkroll, who later was identified as Melanie Kroll) sent the mail from her work address at 1-800-FLOWERS. If you look at the headers provided by Professor Myers, you can see that the address is not spoofed.
I contacted a journalist at IDG that I know from working there, and he did some investigating to see if he would be able to write a story about this. I just got a mail from him, informing me that Melanie was fired yesterday over this mail.
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An capella tribute to John Williams 
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Halloween pumpkin carved!
Sun, Oct 26th 2008 11:29a Karl-Henry Martinsson
Well, I got my yearly pumpkin done. It ended up being Gollum from The Lord of The Rings movie trilogy. The pattern was somewhat complicated, due to the fact there were large areas when the skin was just supposed to be removed and the pumpkin walls made thinner. What I ended up doing was to mark the different sections on the pumpkin with white-board markers, different colors for areas to cut through (black), un-touched (green) and thinned (red):Then it was just to start up the Dremel tool, usi [read] Keywords: wiki
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Halloween - pumpkin carving
Fri, Oct 24th 2008 12:09p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Even if I am not originally from the US, and we don't celebrate Halloween the same way as here, I do enjoy it. Especially carving pumpkins. I found a cool website, ExtremePumpkins.com with lot of tips and pictures, where you also could get some inspiration.Last year I created a stormtrooper helmet from Star Wars for my son, who is a big Star Wars fan. I have not decided what to do this year...In Sweden, Halloween (or All Saint's Eve) is a more somber celebration of the dead, celebrated on the f [read] Keywords: exchange
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Beauty and the Geek - casting call
Thu, Oct 23rd 2008 2:43p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Have you ever watched Beauty and the Geek? They are now casting for another season. Why not give it a try?More at the SweetOnGeeks blog. [read] Keywords: wiki
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Today is Leif Eriksson Day 
Thu, Oct 9th 2008 11:42a Karl-Henry Martinsson
As probably most of you know, the scandinavian (Norwegian/Icelandic) explorer Leif Eriksson (Leifr Eiríksson) landed in North America almost 500 years before Columbus, in 1000 A.D. or perhaps 1-2 years later. He there established a small settlement. Today, October 9, is therefor, by presidential proclamation, Leif Erikson day in the US. As it should be, Leif Erikson Day is before Columbus Day (coming up this next Monday).Leif Erikson Day, 2008 A Proclamation by the President of the United Sta [read] Keywords: atlantic
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Swedish Cinnamon Rolls
Wed, Oct 8th 2008 12:41a Karl-Henry Martinsson
The other day I found some yeast in the grocery store, and i picked some up because I wante dto bake something. After I can home, I decided I had not had any cinnamon rolls in a long time. So this is how I made them.* Crumble 2 1/2 packages of fresh yeast (totalling about 50 gram) into a big bowl.* Melt a little bit more than one stick (113 gram) of butter, I used about 130 gram. Add 5 dl (a little over a pint) of milk. Heat to body temperature/finger warm. You should not be feeling anything w [read] Keywords: nd
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What does your work environment look like?
Wed, Oct 1st 2008 6:31p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Paul Mooney asked "What does your work environment look like?", and posted a picture of where he works.So I had to do the same. Below is a picture is my desk at work. I have a main computer with two 19" LCD screens, a test server running Domino 5.0.12 (our production server version) connected to a 17" LCD screen (a left-over with a scratch), and two additional client systems, one test client runing Notes 7 and one system called Workhorse where I run more time consuming agents so I won't lock u [read] Keywords: domino
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"Use care, edges may be sharp"
Wed, Oct 1st 2008 6:15p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Saturday 2 weeks ago, I was cleaning off my livingroom table. Had some trash there from the previous evening, some wrappers from my dinner, a Subway sandwich. There was also the lid from a can of pineapples, the kind that you just pop off. I found out the hard way that the edges of the lid in fact are razor sharp... I put the lid together with the rest of the trash (paper). As I often do, I crumbled the wrappers together while I started to walk back towards the kitchen and the trash can. Bad id [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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The Omnivore's 100 - I have tried 52 of them this far
Mon, Sep 29th 2008 12:08p Karl-Henry Martinsson
John James posted a list of what food on the "Omnivore's 100" list he have eaten. So I decided to post my version of the list. The list if, as John explians it, from Very Good Taste blog who came up with a list of foods that they feel every omnivore should eat in their life time. Bold means I have eaten/tried it, crossed out means I wouldn't touch it in a million years. So here is the list, along with my results. 1. Venison 2. Nettle tea - Had nettle soup, though. Great with hard boiled eggs 3. [read] Keywords: mac
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More on the war on terrorism
Thu, Sep 11th 2008 5:43p Karl-Henry Martinsson
I just wrote my reflections on September 11. I then saw that System i Addict (David) wrote about Remembering 9/11 & forgetting the terrorist.
I just want to point out a few things, which are not talked about that often here in the US.
* 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, also the home country of Osama Bin-Ladin. {link}
* Saudi Arabia got the name from the family Saud, who "unified" (annected) several regions into one kingdom in 1932. The country is an absolute monarchy, which [read] Keywords: apple
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September 11 - My story
Thu, Sep 11th 2008 3:56p Karl-Henry Martinsson
I was sitting in the office in downtown Boston as usual when Angie, my then-wife, called me. On August 31 she had surgery, and on September 7 she got some chest pains that they diagnosed as a suspected blood clot, so they were keeping her in the hospital for about a week. She was watching TV in her room at Brigham and Women's hospital, a fairly tall building. She called me to tell me that there had been some accident in New York, that a plane hit World Trade Center (where we had been just over a [read] Keywords: blogging
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LS2009 - Session proposal
Mon, Sep 8th 2008 3:21p Karl-Henry Martinsson
As several others, I have posted a proposal for a LS2009 session at IdeaJam.Go there, read it and let me know what you think.Please, if you denote it, write a few lines why, so I can modify the proposal. [read] Keywords: ideajam
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Logic - or lack of logic
Mon, Sep 8th 2008 2:32p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Warning, this blog entry have a potential political content. Disclaimer: I have been living in the US for almost 11 years. I still have some European views, though. When it comes to US politics, I have a hard time when it comes to agreeing with either of the two parties. In Sweden I voted for the Moderate party (lower taxes, tougher on crime, strong defence forces, less government and more personal freedom). But the views of that party is more liberal (in the original meaning of the word, n [read] Keywords: wiki
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Four weeks with (almost) no soda!
Fri, Sep 5th 2008 3:55p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Four weeks ago I stopped drinking soda. It has been almost six years since I stopped drinking regular soda (mainly Coca-Cola) and switched to diet drinks, but about a month ago I decided I would try to cut them out altogether. I still needed my caffeine, so I started drinking more (hot) tea, as well as found some Crystal Light and similar powder with caffeine that I could put in my water bottles. I have now managed to avoid any kind of soda for four weeks. The only one I had was one can of di [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Boeing 747 converted to hotel
Thu, Sep 4th 2008 1:48p Karl-Henry Martinsson
http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2008/09/boeing-747-to-b.htmlAnyone who is tired of ordinary hotels will be able to get an unusual experience at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport. In December the first ever hostel in a jumbo jet will open. ... The interior renovation of the jumbo jet will begin today, and when finished there will 25 rooms a wedding suite in the cockpit. Quite a few changes will be made to distinguish this plane from the ones still flying. For example, guests will b [read] Keywords: apple
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Weight loss - seven days with no sodas!
Thu, Aug 14th 2008 2:50p Karl-Henry Martinsson
I am in the process of trying to lose a few more lbs, and I recently (2 weeks ago) signed up at LA Fitness. My membership ($29.99/month) allows me to us any of their facilities in Texas. I work right next to one, and I live about 10 minutes from another one. There is even a third one located about half-way between my place and my ex-wife, so we can meet in the parking lot after I am done when it is my turn to have our son.Whaen I started going to the gym, I was at 229-230 lbs, depedning on the [read] Keywords: wiki
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Weight loss - seven days with no sodas!
Thu, Aug 14th 2008 2:47p Karl-Henry Martinsson
I am in the process of trying to lose a few more lbs, and I recently (2 weeks ago) signed up at LA Fitness. My membership ($29.99/month) allows me to us any of their facilities in Texas. I work right next to one, and I live about 10 minutes from another one. There is even a third one located about half-way between my place and my ex-wife, so we can meet in the parking lot after I am done when it is my turn to have our son.Whaen I started going to the gym, I was at 229-230 lbs, depedning on the [read] Keywords: wiki
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BleedYellow.com turns Blue on Ye11owDay
Mon, Aug 11th 2008 10:50a Karl-Henry Martinsson
In honor of Ye11owDay (or is it Ye118owDay?), I logged went to my blog here at BleedYellow, and was surprised to see the site was all blue. I guess Chris, Nathan and the other guys at Lotus911 have an odd sense of humor. To celebrate the day, I am wearing a yellow shirt, have my desktop decorated with the Ye11owDay logo and brought my morning tea in a Lotusphere water bottle from my collection. The yellow coffee cup is a "Coffee Cup for Dummies" I got while working at IDG Sweden in the 90's. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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BleedYellow.com turns Blue on Ye11owDay
Mon, Aug 11th 2008 10:35a Karl-Henry Martinsson
In honor of Ye11owDay (or is it Ye118owDay?), I logged went to my blog here at BleedYellow, and was surprised to see the site was all blue. I guess Chris, Nathan and the other guys at Lotus911 have an odd sense of humor. To celebrate the day, I am wearing a yellow shirt, have my desktop decorated with the Ye11owDay logo and brought my morning tea in a Lotusphere water bottle from my collection. The yellow coffee cup is a "Coffee Cup for Dummies" I got while working at IDG Sweden in the 90's. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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My favourite dishes
Sat, Aug 9th 2008 11:30p Karl-Henry Martinsson
I saw that Gayle shared a recipe for Almont Pork Tenderloin, and I thought I would share two of my favouite ones. One is lean and healthy, the other one not so much so. See if you can spot which one is which... But both are tasty.
Rosemary Chicken
1.5-2 lbs chicken breast/tenderloins (about 3 chicken breasts) 1 can chicken broth 4 tablespoons soy sauce 2-3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 3 cloves crushed fresh garlic, or 1-2 teaspoons crush garlic from a jar rosemary leaves (about 1 tablespoon i [read] Keywords: planetlotus
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My favourite dishes
Fri, Aug 8th 2008 3:29p Karl-Henry Martinsson
I saw that Gayle shared a recipe for Almont Pork Tenderloin, and I thought I would share two of my favouite ones. One is lean and healthy, the other one not so much so. See if you can spot which one is which... But both are tasty.
Rosemary Chicken
1.5-2 lbs chicken breast/tenderloins (about 3 chicken breasts) 1 can chicken broth 4 tablespoons soy sauce 2-3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 3 cloves crushed fresh garlic, or 1-2 teaspoons crush garlic from a jar rosemary leaves (about 1 tablespoon i [read] Keywords: planetlotus
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...and people are surprised americans are fat?
Wed, Aug 6th 2008 3:11p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Found a list on the Mens Health magazine over the 20 worst food items in different categories.
The "winner"? Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing with 2,900 calories, 182 g fat and 240 g carbs.
This weapon of mass construction is the caloric equivalent of eating 14 Krispy Kreme doughnuts, before your dinner arrives. Even if you split this "starter" with 3 friends, you'll have downed a meal's worth of calories.
You should also look at some other bad items. It is scary! Fo [read] Keywords: php
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...and people are surprised americans are fat?
Wed, Aug 6th 2008 3:08p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Found a list on the Mens Health magazine over the 20 worst food items in different categories.
The "winner"? Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing with 2,900 calories, 182 g fat and 240 g carbs.
This weapon of mass construction is the caloric equivalent of eating 14 Krispy Kreme doughnuts, before your dinner arrives. Even if you split this "starter" with 3 friends, you'll have downed a meal's worth of calories.
You should also look at some other bad items. It is scary! Fo [read] Keywords: php
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Hot Or Not? 
Tue, Aug 5th 2008 8:12a Karl-Henry Martinsson
A few years ago I got an account at HotOrNot.com, one of the early sites where you could rate pictures, in this case guys or girls who uploaded their pictures for rating. I experimented with different pictures, and some got good results, other got not so good. I actually used the ratings to decide which pictures to use on regular dating websites. The one rated high were used, the other ones were dropped. The other day I shot a quick picture with my cell phone, and just for fun I put it up on the [read] Keywords: |
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Hot Or Not?
Mon, Aug 4th 2008 9:47p Karl-Henry Martinsson
A few years ago I got an account at HotOrNot.com, one of the early sites where you could rate pictures, in this case guys or girls who uploaded their pictures for rating. I experimented with different pictures, and some got good results, other got not so good. I actually used the ratings to decide which pictures to use on regular dating websites. The one rated high were used, the other ones were dropped. The other day I shot a quick picture with my cell phone, and just for fun I put it up on the [read] Keywords: |
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How to NOT get fired...
Thu, Jul 17th 2008 2:08p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Seems like Melanie's husband Chuck now is taking responsibility.
One of the comments further down have an interesting point/explanation: [read] Keywords: lotus
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How to NOT get fired...
Thu, Jul 17th 2008 11:04a Karl-Henry Martinsson
Seems like Melanie's husband Chuck now is taking responsibility.
One of the comments further down have an interesting point/explanation:
I do DSL support for a major ISP. I think I can guess how Mr. Kroll came to send the e-mail from his wife’s account….
Many businesses (and quite a few individuals) use e-mail client programs, typically various versions of Outlook and Outlook Express on MSwindows machines or MacMail on Mac OS X machines. If you have multiple e-mail adresses in one of these [read] Keywords: lotus
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How to get fired...
Wed, Jul 16th 2008 11:09a Karl-Henry Martinsson
The other day, Philip Storry wrote "A lack of training, or a lack of intelligence", about someone sending a death threat to a professor who happens to be an atheist. This person (mkroll, who later was identified as Melanie Kroll) sent the mail from her work address at 1-800-FLOWERS. If you look at the headers provided by Professor Myers, you can see that the address is not spoofed.
I contacted a journalist at IDG that I know from working there, and he did some investigating to see if he would be [read] Keywords: archive
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How to get fired...
Wed, Jul 16th 2008 10:47a Karl-Henry Martinsson
The other day, Philip Storry wrote "A lack of training, or a lack of intelligence", about someone sending a death threat to a professor who happens to be an atheist. This person (mkroll, who later was identified as Melanie Kroll) sent the mail from her work address at 1-800-FLOWERS. If you look at the headers provided by Professor Myers, you can see that the address is not spoofed.
I contacted a journalist at IDG that I know from working there, and he did some investigating to see if he would be [read] Keywords: archive
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New Service Tracks Missing Laptops for Free
Mon, Jul 14th 2008 3:04p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Robert McMillan just wrote a story in PC World about a new laptop tracking system, which is free:
Lose your laptop these days and you lose part of your life: You say good-bye to photos, music and personal documents that cannot be replaced, and if it's a work computer, you may be the source of a very public data breach.
But now, researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, have found a way to give you a shot at getting your life back. On Monday, they p [read] Keywords: development
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New Service Tracks Missing Laptops for Free
Mon, Jul 14th 2008 2:52p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Robert McMillan just wrote a story in PC World about a new laptop tracking system, which is free:
Lose your laptop these days and you lose part of your life: You say good-bye to photos, music and personal documents that cannot be replaced, and if it's a work computer, you may be the source of a very public data breach.
But now, researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, have found a way to give you a shot at getting your life back. On Monday, they p [read] Keywords: development
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I am Superman
Mon, Jul 7th 2008 6:27p Karl-Henry Martinsson
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You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others. Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test [read] Keywords: |
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I am Superman
Mon, Jul 7th 2008 6:27p Karl-Henry Martinsson
You are Superman
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You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others. Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test [read] Keywords: |
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Generate Excel spreadsheets using Lotusscript
Tue, Jul 1st 2008 8:11a Karl-Henry Martinsson
Bill Buchan just wrote about exporting data to Excel using a CSV file. There is actually a cool and surprisingly easy way to generate documents that show up in Excel as real spreadsheets, with formatting, colors, etc.
Simply create a file containing a HTML table. It may even work with multiple tables. You can use tags like and for bold/italic, and use the color attribute to set text color and background color. Use the colspan attribute to split a cell over multiple columns.
Save the file in L [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Generate Excel spreadsheets using Lotusscript
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 3:04p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Bill Buchan just wrote about exporting data to Excel using a CSV file. There is actually a cool and surprisingly easy way to generate documents that show up in Excel as real spreadsheets, with formatting, colors, etc.
Simply create a file containing a HTML table. It may even work with multiple tables. You can use tags like and for bold/italic, and use the color attribute to set text color and background color. Use the colspan attribute to split a cell over multiple columns.
Save the file in L [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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SNTT - Custom tabs in Notes client
Thu, Jun 26th 2008 2:11p Karl-Henry Martinsson
We all know that Notes let us create tabbed tables. But you have limits to how nice you can create the tabs.
In an application I am working on, I wanted full control of the tabs, and I found out it was actually pretty easy to create my own tabs. I just used a computed background, something I actually never used before.
By the way, I stoleborrowed the graphics from Yahoo Mail for now, until I get the final graphics created...
The application displays information about the (insurance) claim sele [read] Keywords: notes
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SNTT - Custom tabs in Notes client
Thu, Jun 26th 2008 11:32a Karl-Henry Martinsson
We all know that Notes let us create tabbed tables. But you have limits to how nice you can create the tabs.
In an application I am working on, I wanted full control of the tabs, and I found out it was actually pretty easy to create my own tabs. I just used a computed background, something I actually never used before.
By the way, I stoleborrowed the graphics from Yahoo Mail for now, until I get the final graphics created...
The application displays information about the (insurance) claim sele [read] Keywords: notes
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Been busy...
Thu, Jun 26th 2008 10:42a Karl-Henry Martinsson
The last month or so, I have been pretty busy at work and in my personal life. My sister came over from Sweden for a 10-day visit, and at work I been working on wrapping up a project we been working on for a while. I have been having some time to do private things, but I have not put a priority on computers/blogging. This coming weekend I am going to Austin for a friends birthday, but then I should have time to do some blogging again. [read] Keywords: blogging
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Been busy...
Thu, Jun 26th 2008 10:39a Karl-Henry Martinsson
The last month or so, I have been pretty busy at work and in my personal life. My sister came over from Sweden for a 10-day visit, and at work I been working on wrapping up a project we been working on for a while. I have been having some time to do private things, but I have not put a priority on computers/blogging. This coming weekend I am going to Austin for a friends birthday, but then I should have time to do some blogging again. [read] Keywords: blogging
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Silence in New Indiana Jones to track pirates
Thu, May 29th 2008 10:12a Karl-Henry Martinsson
According to an article at boingboing.com, Paramount is dropping the sound in the new Indiana Jones movie, in order to trace where pirate copies are coming from.
While at the cinema yesterday, I read a notice posted by the box office that Paramount has intentionally silenced bits of the soundtrack of _Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull_ in order to deter and track piracy. The notice acknowledged that the momentary silences were annoying but that it was out of their control. Basi [read] Keywords: bug
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Silence in New Indiana Jones to track pirates
Thu, May 29th 2008 8:27a Karl-Henry Martinsson
According to an article at boingboing.com, Paramount is dropping the sound in the new Indiana Jones movie, in order to trace where pirate copies are coming from.
While at the cinema yesterday, I read a notice posted by the box office that Paramount has intentionally silenced bits of the soundtrack of _Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull_ in order to deter and track piracy. The notice acknowledged that the momentary silences were annoying but that it was out of their control. Basi [read] Keywords: bug
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Memorial Day - My Thoughts
Mon, May 26th 2008 8:46p Karl-Henry Martinsson
As many of you may know, I am originally from Sweden. A small, neutral country in northern Europe, who have not been in war since 1814. Sweden have been having a fairly strong defence force, at least until about 10 years ago, when budget cuts been reducing it to basically non-existant... Sweden always had a conscript army, like most European countries. All males must serve for about a year around the time they turn 20, and I served 11 months in the Air Force. There are pros and cons to this syst [read] Keywords: wiki
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Memorial Day - My Thoughts
Mon, May 26th 2008 8:42p Karl-Henry Martinsson
As many of you may know, I am originally from Sweden. A small, neutral country in northern Europe, who have not been in war since 1814. Sweden have been having a fairly strong defence force, at least until about 10 years ago, when budget cuts been reducing it to basically non-existant... Sweden always had a conscript army, like most European countries. All males must serve for about a year around the time they turn 20, and I served 11 months in the Air Force. There are pros and cons to this syst [read] Keywords: wiki
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Lotus Notes sucks - or does it?
Fri, May 23rd 2008 12:48a Karl-Henry Martinsson
The other day I saw a posting in comp.groupware.lotus-notes.programmer, where the poster said that he have been defending Lotus Notes from people that dislike it and want to get rid of it. I asked what problems the users had, and this is the response:
This is the only application we have in Notes - we do use notes mail - but it is the application that is giving Notes a bad name. It is the result of a extremely bad design and implementation of an application 12 years ago in Notes 4.5.
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Lotus Notes sucks
Fri, May 23rd 2008 12:22a Karl-Henry Martinsson
The other day I saw a posting in comp.groupware.lotus-notes.programmer, where the poster said that he have been defending Lotus Notes from people that hate it and want to get rid of it. I asked what the users saw as problems, and this is the response:
This is the only application we have in Notes - we do use notes mail - but it is the application that is giving Notes a bad name. It is the result of a extremely bad design and implementation of an application 12 years ago in Notes 4.5.
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Simple but effective code
Mon, May 12th 2008 4:37p Karl-Henry Martinsson
The other day I was writing some code where I had to check a value against a list of potential values. I was importing a file as XML, and checking a number of transactions, each in their own node. If the Trans-ID tag had one of several values, the whole node was supposed to be discarded and not used. I am sure many already use this method, but hopefully someone will learn something new. In my example below, I am reading a field in a Notes document instead of data from an XML file, but the princ [read] Keywords: document
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Simple but effective code
Mon, May 12th 2008 4:35p Karl-Henry Martinsson
The other day I was writing some code where I had to check a value against a list of potential values. I was importing a file as XML, and checking a number of transactions, each in their own node. If the Trans-ID tag had one of several values, the whole node was supposed to be discarded and not used. I am sure many already use this method, but hopefully someone will learn something new. In my example below, I am reading a field in a Notes document instead of data from an XML file, but the princ [read] Keywords: document
lotusscript
notes
xml
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Advice - What car stereo to buy?
Fri, May 2nd 2008 7:01p Karl-Henry Martinsson
I am in the market for a car stereo (a.k.a head unit). I have been looking around, and I have a alternatives. But I am always looking for the best choice, so I decided to ask for help.
Here are my requirements/wish list:
Play MP3 from CD (other formats a bonus), support for ID3
AUX in to connect my (non iPod) MP3-player (Cowon A2)
Bonus: USB input for Flash drive/portable harddisk
BlueTooth so I can use it as speaker phone
Bonus: BT syncronisation of address book, to facilitate caller ID and o [read] Keywords: interface
ipod
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Advice - What car stereo to buy?
Fri, May 2nd 2008 3:19p Karl-Henry Martinsson
I am in the market for a car stereo (a.k.a head unit). I have been looking around, and I have a alternatives. But I am always looking for the best choice, so I decided to ask for help.
Here are my requirements/wish list:
Play MP3 from CD (other formats a bonus), support for ID3
AUX in to connect my (non iPod) MP3-player (Cowon A2)
Bonus: USB input for Flash drive/portable harddisk
BlueTooth so I can use it as speaker phone
Bonus: BT syncronisation of address book, to facilitate caller ID and o [read] Keywords: connect
interface
ipod
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"Healthy food" not so good after all
Wed, Apr 16th 2008 4:26p Karl-Henry Martinsson
For the last few years, I been a big fan of Chipotle, a chain of burrito restaurants. The burritos are good, they meat is from animals raised without hormones and antibiotics, same with the sour cream. The beans are ecologically grown, etc. In short, I been feeling good eating there, and I also thought the food was reasonable healthy.
Last Saturday I went to get a haircut, and happened to pick up Men's Health or some similar magazine. They had a tip; have a bol (bowl) at Chipotle instead of a bu [read] Keywords: php
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"Healthy food" not so good after all
Wed, Apr 16th 2008 3:43p Karl-Henry Martinsson
For the last few years, I been a big fan of Chipotle, a chain of burrito restaurants. The burritos are good, they meat is from animals raised without hormones and antibiotics, same with the sour cream. The beans are ecologically grown, etc. In short, I been feeling good eating there, and I also thought the food was reasonable healthy.
Last Saturday I went to get a haircut, and happened to pick up Men's Health or some similar magazine. They had a tip; have a bol (bowl) at Chipotle instead of a bu [read] Keywords: php
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Why Notes is cool
Tue, Apr 15th 2008 10:56a Karl-Henry Martinsson
Lately I have been thinking back on my career. You may have read my two postings about how I started with Notes and how I started with computers in general. This made me start thinking: what is it with Lotus Notes that I find so fascinating?
I remember how impressed I was with Visual Basic when the first version came out in 1991. I had previously been writing code using Turbo Pascal, QuickC and Turbo C, so a tool that let you draw the user interface and place controls in a graphic way was a big [read] Keywords: forms
lotus
notes
application
database
development
interface
java
planetlotus
planetlotus.org
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Why Notes is cool
Tue, Apr 15th 2008 10:51a Karl-Henry Martinsson
Lately I have been thinking back on my career. You may have read my two postings about how I started with Notes and how I started with computers in general. This made me start thinking: what is it with Lotus Notes that I find so fascinating?
I remember how impressed I was with Visual Basic when the first version came out in 1991. I had previously been writing code using Turbo Pascal, QuickC and Turbo C, so a tool that let you draw the user interface and place controls in a graphic way was a big [read] Keywords: forms
lotus
notes
application
database
development
interface
java
planetlotus
planetlotus.org
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How I started with computers
Sun, Apr 13th 2008 12:36p Karl-Henry Martinsson
A little while ago I wrote about how I started with Lotus Notes. When I read some other people's descriptions, they told more of their background how they got into computers as well. This has prompted me to share (if anyone really care) how I started with computers.
Back in 1974 or 75 or so, when I was 5-6 years old, my then about 20-21 year old cousin from Blekinge (where my dad was born and grew up and where most of his family lives) moved up to Stockholm. After his military service in the S [read] Keywords: lotus
notes
bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
microsoft
wiki
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How I started with computers
Sun, Apr 13th 2008 11:41a Karl-Henry Martinsson
A little while ago I wrote about how I started with Lotus Notes. When I read some other people's descriptions, they told more of their background how they got into computers as well. This has prompted me to share (if anyone really care) how I started with computers.
Back in 1974 or 75 or so, when I was 5-6 years old, my then about 20-21 year old cousin from Blekinge (where my dad was born and grew up and where most of his family lives) moved up to Stockholm. After his military service in the S [read] Keywords: lotus
notes
bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
microsoft
wiki
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How I started with Notes
Sat, Apr 5th 2008 10:31a Karl-Henry Martinsson
Theo Heselmans blogged about how he got into Notes back in 1993, so I thought it would be fun to share my story.
In 1993 I worked for IDG in Sweden as a journalist. The company used Lotus cc:Mail, but made a company-wide descision to use Lotus Notes. I believe it was in late 1994 that Notes 3 was started to be used at the Swedish subsidary , and in 1995 it was widely used there, despite some complaints, mainly from one editor-in-cheif/business unit leader who tended to give his staff older, slow [read] Keywords: lotus
lotusphere
notes
R5
application
applications
archive
development
microsoft
office
server
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How I started with Notes
Sat, Apr 5th 2008 9:31a Karl-Henry Martinsson
Theo Heselmans blogged about how he got into Notes back in 1993, so I thought it would be fun to share my story.
In 1993 I worked for IDG in Sweden as a journalist. The company used Lotus cc:Mail, but made a company-wide descision to use Lotus Notes. I believe it was in late 1994 that Notes 3 was started to be used at the Swedish subsidary , and in 1995 it was widely used there, despite some complaints, mainly from one editor-in-cheif/business unit leader who tended to give his staff older, slow [read] Keywords: lotus
, lotusphere
, notes
, R5
, application
, applications
, archive
, development
, microsoft
, office
, server
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Car accident this morning...
Tue, Apr 1st 2008 11:50a Karl-Henry Martinsson
This morning I was on the way to work. I had spent the night at my ex-wife's house, watching our son while she worked. Normally he comes over to me, but I have to work late this week so we did like we done in the past, she get him into bed and I go over there when she is about to leave for work. Anyway, this morning I woke him up, got him dressed, fixed breakfast and sent him to school. I then got into my car. About 2/3 of the way to work, I was stopped an the onramp to SH-360 in Arlington, behi [read] Keywords: |
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Car accident this morning...
Tue, Apr 1st 2008 11:50a Karl-Henry Martinsson
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Parse URL in Domino agent
Tue, Mar 25th 2008 1:00p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Not Forum Friday, but Usenet Tuesday. A user in comp.groupware.lotus-notes.programmer had a question about generating Notes document remotely/in an automated way from another web application, using Perl:
> We have a Lotus Notes application and we would like to automate > creating a new document or record in that application from another web > based application. > > Here are the details: > User action on web application triggers a PERL script to create a new > record (do [read] Keywords: agent
document
domino
lotus
lotusscript
notes
script library
application
bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
database
google
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Visited US states and European contries
Tue, Mar 25th 2008 1:00p Karl-Henry Martinsson
OK, I was a little bit bored, and thought I would create two more maps of visited places, one of the US states and one of European contries. [read] Keywords: |
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Parse URL in Domino agent
Tue, Mar 25th 2008 10:38a Karl-Henry Martinsson
Not Forum Friday, but Usenet Tuesday. A user in comp.groupware.lotus-notes.programmer had a question about generating Notes document remotely/in an automated way from another web application, using Perl:
> We have a Lotus Notes application and we would like to automate > creating a new document or record in that application from another web > based application. > > Here are the details: > User action on web application triggers a PERL script to create a new > record (do [read] Keywords: agent
, document
, domino
, lotus
, lotusscript
, notes
, script library
, application
, database
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Visited US states and European contries
Mon, Mar 24th 2008 4:49p Karl-Henry Martinsson
OK, I was a little bit bored, and thought I would create two more maps of visited places, one of the US states and one of European contries. [read] Keywords: |
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Out of Office Agent
Fri, Mar 21st 2008 4:18p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Bill Buchan just posted a great SNTT entry about the Out of Office Agent on his blog. I did learn some new things there, like I usually do when reading his blog. He is also the one that got me to start doing object oriented Lotusscript programming. As anyone that seen him present at Lotusphere or some other conference know, he is a very entertaining speaker, but he is also very smart and know his stuff... [read] Keywords: agent
lotusphere
lotusscript
sntt
office
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Out of Office Agent
Fri, Mar 21st 2008 3:18p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Bill Buchan just posted a great SNTT entry about the Out of Office Agent on his blog. I did learn some new things there, like I usually do when reading his blog. He is also the one that got me to start doing object oriented Lotusscript programming. As anyone that seen him present at Lotusphere or some other conference know, he is a very entertaining speaker, but he is also very smart and know his stuff... [read] Keywords: agent
, lotusphere
, lotusscript
, sntt
, office
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Windows Vista toilet paper
Thu, Mar 20th 2008 10:30a Karl-Henry Martinsson
You can now wipe yourself with Vista toilet paper:
(From TechWorld Mikrodatorn and Akiba PC Hotline) [read] Keywords: vista
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Places I have visited
Thu, Mar 20th 2008 9:23a Karl-Henry Martinsson
Create your own visited country map! [read] Keywords: |
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Places I have visited
Thu, Mar 20th 2008 8:23a Karl-Henry Martinsson
Create your own visited country map! [read] Keywords: |
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Windows Vista toilet paper
Thu, Mar 20th 2008 8:23a Karl-Henry Martinsson
You can now wipe yourself with Vista toilet paper:
(From TechWorld Mikrodatorn) [read] Keywords: vista
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
Wed, Mar 19th 2008 4:03p Karl-Henry Martinsson
One of the great writers of the 20th century has left us. Arthur C Clarke, best known for his books 2001: A Space Odyssey Rendezvous with Rama, Earthlight and The Sands of Mars.
But Arthur C. Clarke was not only a science fiction writer. He was an avid scuba diver (which is why he moved to Sri Lanka), and he came up with the concept of using geo-stationary satellites for communicatiions. The geostationary orbit is sometimes called the Clarke Orbit in his honor. He was even involved in some satel [read] Keywords: |
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Arthur C. Clark (1917-2008)
Wed, Mar 19th 2008 8:48a Karl-Henry Martinsson
One of the great writers of the 20th century has left us. Arthur C Clark, best known for his books 2001: A Space Odyssey Rendezvous with Rama, Earthlight and The Sands of Mars.
But Arthur C. Clark was not only a science fiction writer. He was an avid scuba diver (which is why he moved to Sri Lanka), and he came up with the concept of using geo-stationary satellites for communicatiions. The geostationary orbit is sometimes called the Clarke Orbit in his honor. He was also involved in actually sat [read] Keywords: |
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VMware overload?
Mon, Mar 17th 2008 2:59p Karl-Henry Martinsson
A couple of weeks ago I installed VMware Workstation on my computer at home, so i could have a clean XP install to clone and use for program testing and to run multiple environments at the same time. I also installed Ubuntu 7.10 the weekend before last. This weekend I had some spare time. So I installed Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows 2000 Professional, Kubuntu 7.10, OpenSUSE 10.3 and even Mac OS X 10.4.7(!). It is a strange feeling to run OS X on a PC...
I also got a new computer at work, do [read] Keywords: lotusphere
bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
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VMware overload?
Mon, Mar 17th 2008 12:59p Karl-Henry Martinsson
A couple of weeks ago I installed VMware Workstation on my computer at home, so i could have a clean XP install to clone and use for program testing and to run multiple environments at the same time. I also installed Ubuntu 7.10 the weekend before last. This weekend I had some spare time. So I installed Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows 2000 Professional, Kubuntu 7.10, OpenSUSE 10.3 and even Mac OS X 10.4.7(!). It is a strange feeling to run OS X on a PC...
I also got a new computer at work, do [read] Keywords: lotusphere
, mac
, vmware
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Top 15 Google Street View Pictures
Tue, Mar 11th 2008 7:04p Karl-Henry Martinsson
http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-street-view-sightings/
Some funny ones, some silly ones. Personally I think #14 is the best one. Followed by #4. [read] Keywords: google
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Lotusphere water bottle collection
Tue, Mar 11th 2008 6:36p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Over the years I got a small collection of Lotusphere water bottles. It started in 2003 when I ended up with a couple of extra bottles in my backpack on the last day, and I brought them home with me. The next year I picked up a couple again to drink at the airport while waiting for my flight, and I got one leftover as well. Since then I made sure I bring home at least one bottle per year for my little collection.
This year I noticed that the older bottles were squished, like there were vacum ins [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Birthday Cake
Tue, Mar 11th 2008 6:36p Karl-Henry Martinsson
A couple of days ago (well, March 3) it was my birthday, and I decided to bake a cake, as I usually do. I enjoy baking and cooking, and that way I also get to have a cake the way I am used to from Sweden. I will post the directions when I get home, but it is really easy.
The main difference between the cakes made the traditionally way in the US and in Sweden/Europe are listed below, but there are of course exceptions:
United States
Europe/Sweden
Layers
Solid cake, or 2 layers
3 or more lay [read] Keywords: |
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Top 15 Google Street View Pictures
Tue, Mar 11th 2008 5:04p Karl-Henry Martinsson
http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-street-view-sightings/
Some funny ones, some silly ones. Personally I think #14 is the best one. Followed by #4. [read] Keywords: google
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SNTT - XML importer class
Tue, Mar 11th 2008 4:42p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Yes, I know it is Tuesday, but I was too busy last week for the SNTT entry...
At my workplace, we are in the process of purchasing and implementing a new billing system. It relies heavily on XML files, stored in the file system, for inport/export. The idea is that we export XML from our policy system to be processed by this software. The results are returned as XML files, and we are currently looking at how we can consume them and present them to the accounting department.
We are mainly looki [read] Keywords: document
, lotusscript
, notes
, sntt
, database
, xml
, xslt
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Lotusphere water bottle collection
Tue, Mar 11th 2008 4:36p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Over the years I got a small collection of Lotusphere water bottles. It started in 2003 when I ended up with a couple of extra bottles in my backpack on the last day, and I brought them home with me. The next year I picked up a couple again to drink at the airport while waiting for my flight, and I got one leftover as well. Since then I made sure I bring home at least one bottle per year for my little collection.
This year I noticed that the older bottles were squished, like there were vacum ins [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Birthday Cake
Tue, Mar 11th 2008 4:36p Karl-Henry Martinsson
A couple of days ago (well, March 3) it was my birthday, and I decided to bake a cake, as I usually do. I enjoy baking and cooking, and that way I also get to have a cake the way I am used to from Sweden. I will post the directions when I get home, but it is really easy.
The main difference between the cakes made the traditionally way in the US and in Sweden/Europe are listed below, but there are of course exceptions:
United States
Europe/Sweden
Layers
Solid cake, or 2 layers
3 or more lay [read] Keywords: |
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Prince Harry in Aftganistan -cover blown
Fri, Feb 29th 2008 9:28p Karl-Henry Martinsson
I am reading that Prince Harry of England was pulled out of Afghanistan, where he have been serving with his regiment since December, after an Australian newspaper and then The Drudge Report outed him. Major news organisations, like AP, CNN and many English newspapers, knew about it for months and even got exclusive information, interviews and photos with the understanding that they were not going to be published until after the story eventually leaked.
There is some discussion about if it is et [read] Keywords: |
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Forum Friday
Fri, Feb 29th 2008 3:50p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Today's Forum Friday posting is in response to this question about sending mail from a Lotusscript agent by H Falzone.
He (she?) is having problems sending a mail to multiple users from an agent.
Here is the existing code:
Sub Initialize Dim session As New Notessession Dim db As Notesdatabase Dim view As NotesView Dim doc As NotesDocument Dim maildoc As NotesDocument Dim rtitem As NotesRichTextItem Set db = session.CurrentDatabase Set view = db.GetView( "TESTER" ) Set Col = session.CurrentDa [read] Keywords: agent
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SNTT: Lists - the forgotten gem in Lotusscript
Fri, Feb 29th 2008 11:22a Karl-Henry Martinsson
OK, I know it is Friday already, but here is my Show-n-Tell-Thursday entry...
Lists are a data type that I don't think is used enough. Many Notes developers, even some that been programming in the environment for years, don't use this very powerful feature. In previous years, Bill Buchan have been talking about lists in some of his Lotussphere sessions, and when asking how many in the audience that used lists, less than 10% raised their hands.
So what are lists? They are a data type, similar to [read] Keywords: lotusscript
, notes
, sntt
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Kids say the darndest things...
Thu, Feb 28th 2008 4:29p Karl-Henry Martinsson
My seven year old son yesterday evening, after I changed into jeans and my BleedYellow t-shirt with claw marks:
"Nobody bleeds yellow"
I tried to explain it, but I am not sure if he understood...
My son at my sister's place in Sweden last Christmas Eve. [read] Keywords: bleedyellow
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Geek Pride
Thu, Feb 28th 2008 12:22p Karl-Henry Martinsson
I just read a blog entry by Dave Hay called "Geek is Cool". He talk about how he now is proud to be a geek, after he realized he is one:
I realised that I am a geek, I've always been a geek and I may well be a geek forever.
I have been a geek since 7th grade, back in the early 1980's. That's when the computer club in my school started. I spent many hours, both during the breaks/recess and after school, in the computer room, learning to program and use the computers. My parents were not too happ [read] Keywords: applications
, microsoft
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Restless...
Wed, Feb 27th 2008 5:59p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Lately I been feeling more restless than usual. I work very close to the DFW airport, and every time I drive by and see the planes take off or come in for landing, I want to be on that plane. I went to Sweden both last summer (I also visisted my aunt and cousin in Germany) and for Christmas. Of course I went to Orlando for Lotusphere in January, and in the beginning of February I went on a 5 day cruise to Mexico. And I already want to go away again... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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A long time ago...
Wed, Feb 27th 2008 4:55p Karl-Henry Martinsson
...in a country far far away, there were a class of six graders. Their teacher was married to a theater actor, and the class set up a play pretty much every semester. One time the teacher came up with the idea of making movies instead. The class was divided into 6 groups of 4-5 students each. One of the children in the class had a father who was a documentary film maker/director, and he came in and explained a little bit about film making basics.
Most groups opted for the easy route, using one o [read] Keywords: |
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Certification
Tue, Feb 26th 2008 4:33p Karl-Henry Martinsson
At this years Lotusphere, I wanted to upgrade my Certified Application Developer to the Advanced level for 6.0/6.5, and also try to upgrade to Notes/Domino 7.0. The advanced upgrade (exam 273) was no problem, but I failed the 7 upgrade. Since I am still on R5 at work (some clients are on 7.0.2, but development has to be done for 5.0.12), I did not have that much experience of creating web services or using DB2 in Notes, which were what most of the test was about.
But what really made me wonder [read] Keywords: designer
, domino
, lotusphere
, notes
, notes client
, R5
, application
, db2
, development
, interface
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I am back...
Tue, Feb 26th 2008 4:25p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Well, plenty of things going on since I got back from Lotusphere and not much time (or energy) for blogging.... Part of the office moved to a different location a few miles away, about 100 users were moved to Citrix and Notes 7.0.2 as a result of this, and several servers were upgraded to Domino 7.0.2.
I got an upper respiratory infection after Lotusphere, took me about 2 weeks to get well. Went on a cruise to Mexico the week before the move (was planned way before the dates of the move was set [read] Keywords: domino
, lotusphere
, notes
, blogging
, citrix
, office
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Strange problem with Notes 7 vs. Domino 5
Fri, Feb 1st 2008 12:36p Karl-Henry Martinsson
Back from Lotusphere with a bunch of new knowledge and new contacts. Back to the regular routine with development and support.
Well, not exactly. We ran into an interesting problem this week, affecting application performance.
We currently mostly run Notes 5.0.12 clients, but have a handful users that are on 7.0.2.
Our Domino servers run a couple of different versions. 5.0.8, 5.0.12, one 6.0 and (since a few weeks) one 7.0.2 server. The new 7.0.2 server is on a faster/newer box, so we can now ru [read] Keywords: document
, domino
, lotus
, lotusphere
, notes
, rich text
, template
, application
, database
, development
, network
, server
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