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The BEST internet advert of all time - Ever!  
Mon, Dec 1st 2008 5:52a Steve McDonagh
This has to be the best Internet based interactive advert of all time - Upload a document to two phones in Nokia and watch their robots mangle it bloody marvelously weird! and very satisfying on a Monday morning! Thanks to twitbuddy @reivax for the heads up! [read] Keywords: document
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The Agony Aunt Spot -The Thorny Matter of Pointer Size Pressure 
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh
Dear DominoYesMayBe HELP! I am an iSeries developer and I have a problem with my enormous pointer size. My colleagues giggle behind my back and strangers point and laugh when they see me. I am very depressed. Please help iSeries Geek PS Sienna Millar... why? Dear iSeries Geek Stand proud! Let the world see your 16 byte pointer and let them bask in its teraspaced loveliness. You can be secure in the knowledge that those that laugh, smirk and make your life miserable are in fact suffering fr [read] Keywords: |
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SHOCK!!!! HORROR!!!! REVELATION!!! Bill Buchan is Welsh and NI Toy Tractor Collectors go mad for Billy Ray Sirus and chicken curry
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh
As I mentioned in the last post Bill Buchan PDF (Portly Domino Fellow) and fellow GONAD came to DYM's stomping ground in the frozen foggy tundra of North Derry. I recommended he stay in the Magherabouy Hotel, Portrush a hotel used by my company when we have folk visiting from the 4 corners of the coorporation. It is a nice wee hotel, free WiFi, decent beer in the bar and a rather nice view out over the Atlantic when not shrouded in freezing fog! When I wandered out to the hotel on friday evenin [read] Keywords: atlantic
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Two useful tools for IE web devs
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh
I was joined by "Wild" Bill Buchan this weekend for a spot of iSeries Geekery, Guinness,champ and Harbour Bar frolicary but more of that later. Whilst Bill was saying "oh my life" and having pointer size issues. I did a couple of wee changes to some CSS on an app that was having IE issues. I am sure you know the type, looks fine in FF, Safari, Opera but goes tits up in IE. Now I have been using 2 wee tools that helps me with such things. Bill had not come either tool and suggested I throw it ou [read] Keywords: javascript
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Interesting Notes Based Application - DOCOVA
Thu, Nov 27th 2008 5:52a Steve McDonagh
All Notes-ers I have just had a chat with a Canadian chap Gary Walsh from DLI who have a very interesting product called Docova I must add at this point that this post is not an advert or endorsement! However I did have a few "wow" moments when Gary Demo'ed it for me on Tuesday. It is a Document Management System that is back ended by Notes NSFs and can be accessed thru the Notes Client and from a browser. It comes with a host of interesting bells and whistles and is priced very reasonably and [read] Keywords: document
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I have become to busy to care. 
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh
Gentle reader , I had a bit of a shock today. It happened when I was listening to one of the podcasts I download weekly. A fine program called "Everyday Ethics" produced by the BBC and available here. It looks at local Northen Ireland and World problems with a Christian perspective but is accessible even for an apostate heathen like myself. One of the articles on this weeks show was "Do journalists believe in poverty" and from this topic came my shock. To precis the questions the article poses [read] Keywords: community
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So this is why the segway was invented - It all makes sense now
Mon, Nov 24th 2008 7:53p Steve McDonagh
You will need to watch it until the end..... Thanks Cousin Paul! :-) [read] Keywords: application
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Happy 230th birthday Voltaire from a world that thinks "The Shack" is wonderful literature
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 6:59p Steve McDonagh
Ah yes gentle reader sorry for the gap in posts, last weekend was a trip down to watch Ireland get their bottoms slapped by the all blacks and this week was cram packed with work work work and more work. Anyhow - today 21st November is the 230th birthday of one of my heroes, Francois Marie Arouet or as he is more commonly remembered Voltaire. We geeks, nerds and techie nere-do-wells are not known for our philosophical leanings ... well at least when sober. My father introduced me to the scribbl [read] Keywords: |
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"The Matrix" as it would appear had it run on Windows (honourable mention of UBUNTU after credits!)
Fri, Nov 14th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh
From those charming folk at College Humor See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. [read] Keywords: application
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God on Facebook
Fri, Nov 14th 2008 4:52a Steve McDonagh
From College Humour Visit them here [read] Keywords: facebook
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A plea from the coding pencil - give now give often
Fri, Nov 14th 2008 4:52a Steve McDonagh
Thanks to Martin Leyer's twitterstream (@leyer) for bringing this to our attention [read] Keywords: application
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Have a wee game - Go on you know you want to
Wed, Nov 12th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh
Control Keys are ... left and right arrows to move and space to fire You need to get at least 300,000 to get on the high score! [read] Keywords: application
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Coding for the Mouse Wheel in Javascript
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh
This is quite an esoteric post for those JS heads out there ... how do you code for the user using the mouse wheel? I was working on Name Picker V2.0.0 tonight and one of the "improvements" is that there will be both cursor key and mouse key support on the new format list (which is basically a vertical array of [div]s rather than a select object. Most of the default form objects that support scroll bars will have mouse support. But what about [li] or some interesting nested [div]s or a [table] [read] Keywords: document
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Name Picker V2.0.0 Update
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 7:53p Steve McDonagh
Name Picker 2 didn't quite get as much work this weekend as I had planned due to some family commitments but work resumed today with the reformatting of the Name picker Type 1 "Single" was joined with Type 2 "Multiple" formats. These were achieved with the following code myPicker = new NP_object(); myPicker.type=1; myPicker.create(); myPicker = new NP_object(); myPicker.type=2; myPicker.create(); I am no longer using a [select] to hold the found data but I am injecting [div]'s [read] Keywords: document
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Rememberance Sunday
Sun, Nov 9th 2008 7:55p Steve McDonagh
It is rememberance sunday here in the UK and on the way to a family gathering in the south of the province and there was a programe on the radio which took my attention. It is 80 years since the end of the The Great War and the show focused on a group that became known as the "war poets". I have never been able to put my finger on why the works of these poets attracted me even when at school when poetry was considered to be a necesary evil within English classes. There is one poem in particual t [read] Keywords: |
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Name Picker V2.0.0 started
Thu, Nov 6th 2008 7:53p Steve McDonagh
I recently got two messages on OpenNTF informing me that there was a bug in the multiple selection section code of my AJAX Name Picker and after some checking indeed there is! I had made a fairly minor change in a bit of what I was "sure" was unrelated JS and managed to duplicate all the data in an array. So sure was I that it was fine I didn't test all 3 types of name picker ~hangs head in shame~ I really should know better! Anyway, it was a bit of code I wrote back in 2006 and as such it is s [read] Keywords: notes
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ILUG 09 - uniform (Male) beta 0.0.1 created
Wed, Nov 5th 2008 7:53p Steve McDonagh
This will be the new face , or bottom half, of the ILUG gentle-person's apparel for 2009. Should you wish to appear at ILUG as a speaker this year you will have to provide your measurements well in advance. So like Wild Bill, Coatsie and myself you might need to think about those extra pounds! The kilt is black leather and will be worn with the prerequisite green polo shirt. The Sporran comes complete with hip flask and spare remote for the projector [read] Keywords: ilug
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You can rent this space for 30 days. Interested?
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The ILUG 09 "fringe" preparation begins
Tue, Nov 4th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh
Even though ILUG 09 is stil at least 7-8 months away, preparation is everything and at several previous events it has been noted that the local Celtic males did not appear in Kilts. Much thought and research has gone into the reason for this and in order that ILUG become more KILT-friendly we have taken delivery of several kilt friendly seats. Now Wild Bill, Mr Mooney and Myself have no excuse not to startle the ladies and scare dogs that are small enuff to get a good upward glance. [read] Keywords: ilug
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Dominoyesmaybe's new job as an agony aunt for geeks
Tue, Nov 4th 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh
In the current economic climate (oh I am starting to hate that phrase) we are all faced with uncertain times and as of last weekend I have started offering myself as an Agony Aunt for all your geeky angst. No problem is too icky or horrible for the dedicated and professional team of fellow geeks who will give you grounded and well thought out advice. We have so far helped Mr X with his microwaved cheesy bagel problem (melted cheese is SO hard to get out of nylon!) Mr Y with his compulsive admini [read] Keywords: administration
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How to install Ubuntu on XP as a Virtual Machine
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh
Ok gentle reader Last night I geeked out and stuck an UBUNTU V8.10 new VM on my thinkpad Now I know that there are a large number of folk out there that know how to do this but there may be those out there who have gone "eh?" every time they hear one of the illuminatii mention that they have this or that as a virtual machine. This was brought up clearly to me when sprog asked me what I was doing and I found out he was unaware that you could do this. So this is a "HOW TO DO" for those of you ou [read] Keywords: desktop
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Of sherry magnets, half hung McNaughton, time travelling cars,faery thorns and a November Walk
Sun, Nov 2nd 2008 7:52p Steve McDonagh
Gentle reader, It is the weekend again and as I have had rants both last week and the week before I have deliberately had a quiet weekend so that this post will be less acerbic, I probably wont need to use the word F**K at all! It being halloween (Samhain as it is know in the Celtic tradition) and even though I am a big skeptic when it comes to the supernatural, it is best not to press your luck were the faery are concerned. Take John Delorean, he of the "Back to the Future" car fame. Now his [read] Keywords: atlantic
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A Halloween Warning
Thu, Oct 30th 2008 8:52p Steve McDonagh
From @duffbert via twitter.... [read] Keywords: twitter
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What annoyed me this weekend - Obama Vs McCain
Sat, Oct 25th 2008 7:58p Steve McDonagh
Oh KNOB! I can't avoid it any longer, I have, for the sake of international politeness and Irish/American detante, not made mention of the imminent exercise of electoral manumission in USia. However I have just watched the news and the pointless strutting and posturing that is being beamed onto every TV in the world has incensed me and I am monumentally fucked off with the whole thing. Now I make no bones about my total disrespect for politicians and for the political process. If you follow my [read] Keywords: notes
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Rolls Royce help test US high speed trains - with chickens
Sat, Oct 25th 2008 7:58p Steve McDonagh
Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners and military jets all travelling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields. American engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the American engineers. When the gun was fired, the [read] Keywords: |
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A Credit Crunch Variation on a 419 Theme
Fri, Oct 24th 2008 5:52a Steve McDonagh
I got this in the mail this morning. It is good to see the 419'ers are adapting to the new world where people are out of work, or worried about work, or need extra money. So what so you need right now? Thats right some fecking arsehole of a con-main pretending to be from Virgin and offering you £1500 a month (at least they got the currency right!) [sarcasm]my faith in human nature is restored once again![/sarcasm] Here are the headers Return-path: X-Modus-BlackList: 194.46.8.182=OK;Apollack [read] Keywords: javascript
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The infrequent Dominoyesmaybe Heath and Beauty Tips post
Tue, Oct 21st 2008 8:55p Steve McDonagh
Gentle reader Having just discovered that you can get a Bingowingoplasty it must be time for an update on the DYM waistline containment program. As you may know several of the luminaries (and me) of this Yellow Bubble we call home are trying their best to emulate Northern Rock and shed more than a few pounds. We are each doing it in our own ways. Mine is "walking briskly" and scaring the occasional small dog that crosses my path when I am listening to Disturbed on the iPlod. There is nothing q [read] Keywords: iphone
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The British Humanist Society take a stand .. probably.
Tue, Oct 21st 2008 8:55p Steve McDonagh
Well this a start I suppose :-) It is almost definitely maybe making a stand what what we probably are sure about sort of. I love the quote frm Christian Voice's spokestwonk Steve Green "Bendy-buses, like atheism, are a danger to the public at large Hey if that is the level of my danger to the public I feel a lot better! I have always been told that I am a "servant of Satan" but it seems I may be a "Servant of Volvo" [read] Keywords: |
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The Chums that share my workspace
Mon, Oct 20th 2008 5:53a Steve McDonagh
I am sure we all have little friends that live on our desks were we work. So here in a "grumpy old man" annex to the "this-is-where-I-work-picture" meme here are my desk dwelling chums.This is "Pus Bucket" he is my coding geek teddy to whom I swear and cuss when I forget the "new" in Dim Session as NotesUIWorkspace. He can swear fluently in 5 languages (not including teddy bear) and doubles as a ICBM (Inter Cubicle Ballistic Missile) and a guard bear should the need arise and the proles in opera [read] Keywords: facebook
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Drag and Drop Part II
Sun, Oct 19th 2008 8:52p Steve McDonagh
Further to my post of Friday on drag and drop here is some other thoughts I had when commenting the code than perhaps were not obvious from the previous post. YUI comes complete with a PROXY object which allows you to drag a proxy version of the thing you click on rather than the thing itself. I deliberately didn't use this method because I wanted to maintain the list on the left AFTER the drop had taken place because users may want to drag a customer to more than one date on the calendar and d [read] Keywords: css
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Geeky home made gadgets
Sun, Oct 19th 2008 8:52p Steve McDonagh
Gentle reader If i were to feel the need to reinforce my claim to "geekdom" i would use this link! This chap is a muso-geek's geek. He makes his own gadgets .. i am so jealous I wish I had the time and expertise to do the same [read] Keywords: application
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A bit of a rant - Faith Healing
Sat, Oct 18th 2008 8:55p Steve McDonagh
It has been at least a couple of months since I have had a rant and today I will rectify that as I am monumentally pissed off and I have a feeling I may really "go off on one", so consider this a warning and if rants about religion are not your thing don't read the bit in the box below!. Here we go.. If you are a regular reader of my blog you will know that I sometimes get a bit cross about not so much "religion" but "religious people". My last rant was about a certain MLA (like an MP but a Nor [read] Keywords: agent
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Create a web based Drag and Drop Calendar
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 9:53p Steve McDonagh
As part of my "spreading the domnio love" I have for the past year or so been a "yoda" to a Notes Developer who wanted to start branching out into more web based apps. Now in typical DYM form fate does not thrust me an apprentice with whom I can share the odd beer at the weekend. Oh NO! My "Luke Skywalker" lives in Australia! C'est la vie :-) Anyway she asked me the other day how she could make one of her CRM calendar facilities a bit flashier and more modern and I like a fool said "why don't y [read] Keywords: domino
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More Xtreme Parachutes .... LOVELY
Thu, Oct 16th 2008 6:53a Steve McDonagh
Well yesterday's query as to the veracity of the parachutist video was answered my my Cuz Paul in the comments.. Your knees would become "ear extensions" after such a jump HOWEVER he did supply this .. a catapult launch.. which I am assured is Pukka!.... I lead such a boring life! B.A.S.E. Jump Catapult | Viral | SPIKE.com [read] Keywords: application
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My Goodness this looks like Fun!
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 8:52p Steve McDonagh
I wonder if this is real? I wonder what my BASE jumping cousin would make of it? [read] Keywords: application
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Joke of the day (American but rather good)
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 5:52a Steve McDonagh
A college professor was doing a study testing the senses of first year schoolchildren, using a bowl of Fruit Loops, the cereal with the hole in it.He gave all the children the same kind of loop, one at a time, and asked them to identify them by colour and flavour. The children began to say:'Red............cherry,' 'Yellow.........lemon,''Green..........lime,'Orange.........orange.'Finally the professor gave them all 'honey' loops.After eating them for a few moments none of the children could ide [read] Keywords: |
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Interesting Credit Crunch Statistics
Tue, Oct 14th 2008 8:52p Steve McDonagh
If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00. With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left. If you had purchased $1000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00 left. If you had purchased United Airlines, you would have nothing left. But, if you had purchased $1000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, and then turned in the cans for recycling, you would have $214.00. Based on the above, the best current investment advice is [read] Keywords: |
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Some thoughts as we circle the rim and contemplate the flush.
Sat, Oct 11th 2008 9:02p Steve McDonagh
Hey Ho! :( Another Saturday Night® has come and gone leaving me with the uneasy feeling that I am missing something. I have left "The Sprog" off at a local nite club and by the time I was turning the corner to come home he was surrounded by a gaggle of young ladies. Was I ever in that same enviable position? I am sure I would remember if I have been ... wouldn't I? Perhaps my somewhat glum mood is because I live up here around 55º north were the trees are now well on the way to baldness and t [read] Keywords: traveler
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Sneak preview of "The Economist" for next week
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 8:51p Steve McDonagh
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Strange Errors from 8.0.1 when creating a document from another document
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 8:51p Steve McDonagh
Today was punctuated by news that the world was broke and the fact that I got the same really strange message twice in the same day from my Notes 8.0.1 client on my laptop. The error in question is "No document found in that direction" and it appeared when I tried to FORWARD a message. Having just returned from my trip to Paris and being a little tired I took the message at it's most simpilist and tried turning the screen thru 90 degrees. However there was not document there either. The first [read] Keywords: document
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** News ** Ferrari Fire Pit Crew
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 8:51p Steve McDonagh
The Ferrari F1 team have fired their entire pit crew!. This announcement followed Ferrari's decision to take advantage of the British government's 'Work for the Dole' scheme and employ some Belfast youngsters. The decision to hire them was brought about by a recent documentary on how unemployed youths from West Belfast were able to remove a set of wheels in less than 6 seconds without proper equipment, whereas Ferrari's existing crew could only do it in 8 seconds with millions of pounds [read] Keywords: |
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Pictures of workspaces - an Art Project
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 8:51p Steve McDonagh
Further to the pictures we have all been posting of our workspaces professional and not as the case may be. If may be interesting to note that my Canadian Cousin, Paul Litherland did a very similar think last year. He is an artist of some renown and specializes in photography. On his last wander around the murky world of McDonaghs, Whites, Pages, Litherlands and other assorted branches of the family tree. He took photo's of our workspaces and plans to present them as a complete work... To quot [read] Keywords: |
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My Home Office
Sat, Oct 4th 2008 8:53p Steve McDonagh
As it seems there is a generally "showing off" of our our home geekspaces as evidenced by Theo's Blog where he has two lovely pictures of his Home office. I thought I would show the opposite side of the coin so to speak. A. Yeah go PlanetLotus!!! B. O'Reilly (yes really) Definitive Javscript Guide C. Tigger Coffee Mug from yesterday or the day before D. ILUG 2008 shiney thingie E. "Wot do you mean it is bedtime?" verification device F. Celion Dion CD case (i binned the CD in disgust) [read] Keywords: ilug
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Calling any French Notes Geeks around Paris
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 8:52p Steve McDonagh
Next week Mon-Thursday I will be in Les Ulis in Paris. Now geography is not my strong suit but I know it is near Massy on the south side of Paris and it is far enough away from CDG airport that it scares the SHIT out of me going all that way on the "peripherique". So if any French Notes Geeks want to get together with an Irish Notes Geek some night next week drop me an email (see the "Getting my attention" section on the left) or Twitter me and lets arrange a time to have a spot of Domino Frate [read] Keywords: domino
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New Blog look 'n Feel
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 8:52p Steve McDonagh
Well it is autumn (or fall if you prefer) and as the seasons change so doth my level of "comfyness" with my blog design. Having b**GG*red up the last one and succeeded in totally wrecking it I was pushed into getting out the CSS guide (thanks 2 Duffbert who pulled my name outa the hat during his session at ILUG 08) and I now have a CSS that is perhaps more ... professional. For those of you that are wondering what the spirally shape is called a "triskele" there are plenty of reasons I could giv [read] Keywords: ilug
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Wot I done on my holidays
Tue, Sep 30th 2008 8:51p Steve McDonagh
Hello again gentle readers both great and small! I have returned from my holidays, well you will have probably got that already as I have done a couple of post. So there you have it! I am back in god's sod and like all good A+ students I have the "Wot I done on me holly dayz" 500 word essay ready and I am prepared for the start of the new autumn/fall term/semester. Which means I am basically on the wind down to Xmas. Last year our outward journey to the land of Homer and Euclid was a complete F [read] Keywords: google
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LotusBeer Ireland II (now its personal) 26th Sept The Crown Bar Belfast 6pm onwards
Wed, Sep 17th 2008 8:49p Steve McDonagh
Ladies gentlegeeks and GONADs all. You are all cordially invited to an evening of quaffing and the sipping of whatever takes your fancy in The Crown Bar Belfast on Friday the 26th September starting around 6pm ish and ending when the beer runs out or the last bus leaves. You don't have to but it would be good to know if you are coming so drop me an email and let me know so we can lay on extra chairs for the chair throwing. Oh and we may have a Keynote drinker this time :-) So if you fancy a f [read] Keywords: email
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the credit crunch (some scarey reading)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 8:47p Steve McDonagh
I am going to do a "What I did on my holiday" post in a wee while but this is way more interesting and much, much more scary , even more scary that me in my swimmers! I asked a chum of mine, a geek that works in a bank, to explain to me what all this credit crunchiness was about and some background into what was going on and he sent me this ... The Credit Default Swap was invented a few years ago by a young Cambridge University mathematics graduate, Blythe Masters, hired by J.P. Morgan Chase Ba [read] Keywords: exchange
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Best Taverna Joke 2008
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 8:47p Steve McDonagh
In the last 2 weeks I have fraternizing with the nicest people on a totey (small) island in the Aegean called Alonissos (of which more later) much good food was eaten, drink drunk and jokes told. The best by a fairly wide margin was this one.. Ladies, Gentlemen geeks and GONADS let me introduce "The Baptising an Irishman" joke An Irishman, is stumbling through the woods, totally drunk, when he comes upon a preacher baptising people in the river. He proceeds to walk into the water and subsequent [read] Keywords: |
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2 Week gap expected cos Im off on my holidays
Thu, Aug 28th 2008 8:00a Steve McDonagh
Gentle readers, fellow GONADS in fact everyone. There will now be a gap of 2 weeks where I will fall of the map as The McDonagh annual bachanalian orgy of Kelftiko, ouzo and best of all Mythos Beer is sought out and consumed prob in more than generous amounts. So Coatsie, Millsie and Buchan have a reprieve for the now. I slipped under the 15 stone mark yesterday.. YIPEE I am now offically 14 Stone "something" but that is unlikely to last. I may pass the odd inet cafe on my travels and if I do I [read] Keywords: |
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Blackberries (real ones) blossom and Acers (also the real ones)
Tue, Aug 26th 2008 6:31p Steve McDonagh
Now here's a thing I was out for my nightly dander this evening and not only are there flowers a blossom in the hedgerows but the blackberries are in full swing.... This is indeed a funny year and no mistake! [read] Keywords: |
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Now this is an interesting thing
Tue, Aug 26th 2008 6:20p Steve McDonagh
I have been following this story for nearly a year and it seems that there may be movement on this. The Air powered car. TATA the Indian company that released the world's cheapest new car are working with MDI from France to put the "Air car" into production Now the car itself is zero-emission or near as damn it, and topping it up will cost around 50p or $1, it will do 200Km on a tank full with a max speed of around 60mph. A decent compressor and you can fill it at home. Now I am not a dyed in t [read] Keywords: |
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A Lazy Dev Tip To Stop M$ LookOut Wrapping Notes Nice long URL links in messages
Tue, Aug 26th 2008 5:09p Steve McDonagh
If you have a project that sends mail to those poor benighted souls that use M$ LookOut for their mail and they are suffering from wrapped and snafued URL links. Here is a tip that will allow your link to pass into the lands of the Redmond gnomes unmolested with bugger all fiddling about. Yes I know you have do it with HTML mail, but sometimes life is just to short. Put your URL in quotes like this "" and M$ will leave it be when it arrives. Thanks to a very nice M$ techie Eric for the tip! [read] Keywords: notes
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Getting intimate with Javascript objects part #8 - The Inherited Methods and Properties
Fri, Aug 22nd 2008 6:29p Steve McDonagh
Gentle reader, Back to the wonderful geeky world of Javascript , it has been a while since the last post in this series, I do apologise.. here is a link to the thread in case you missed the excitement that was parts 1- 7, In this post I am going to look at the sometimes overlooked methods and properties that come as part an parcel of every object you create in JS. As I mentioned before every object you create is a "child" of the Object class and as such in inherits all the parent's methods and [read] Keywords: javascript
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SPF Finances (France) Choose Notes! Big Win Well done IBM!
Fri, Aug 22nd 2008 5:18a Steve McDonagh
I see from my news feed that SPF Finances France choose Notes for their messaging infracstructure. 35,000 bums in 6000 sites..Way to go Lotus!.. For not Franophones here is my appalling translation ... With 35.000 “mailboxes” to deploy from here mid-December, the SPF Finances undoubtedly becomes the largest user of the Lotus Notes transport in our country. It was after having installed 6 years of the electronic letter-boxes to each civil servant (29.000 people) and office (6.000 sites), ...[ [read] Keywords: domino
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Reading a CSV attachment in a server agent on Domino running on an iSeries
Thu, Aug 21st 2008 12:19p Steve McDonagh
Oh Gentle readers here is the solution to a bit of a quandary that hit me the other day. We have and agent that runs on a windows machine that reads a CSV sent out as an email by another system (non-domino) to a Domino mail-in database. A Server "On arrival of New Mail" agent runs , detaches the file, opens it , reads it and acts on the data inside the file on a record by record basis. Now this all works a treat on a Windows server, but when we tried to move it to a iSeries the agent just grun [read] Keywords: agent
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Bog Snorkeling 101
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 3:59p Steve McDonagh
Gentle reader I was most disappointed to discover early this evening that the ancient and honorable sport of Bog Snorkeling is not more widely known. I suppose I should not really be surprised. Year after year our pleas for inclusion into the summer Olympic Games are met with either a polite "no" or the more usual "ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" ~sigh~ but we bog snorkelers are made of stern and hardy stuff and suffer the slings and arrows of a disbelieving public. So for those of you that do not [read] Keywords: application
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An Interesting use of the postopen event of the application
Tue, Aug 19th 2008 3:59p Steve McDonagh
I was faced with an interesting programming issue today which was solved with the seldom used PostOpen event that you can find on the database (sorry application). You can find this in the Other section of the application, then the Database Resources and then Database Script . The even is found inside this section and gets triggered immediately the Application has reached a restful state in the UIworkspace. This is an event that in our Org is seldom used, so seldom I thought I would blog [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Useful JS script to get around IE's inability to do getElementsByName properly
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 6:40a Steve McDonagh
If you need to use the JS function getElementsName() which works perfectly in all other browsers except that f**king slough of programming despond that is IE. Try this. It basically overrides the getElementsById() function with a new one that unlike the spew in IE, works! if ( /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent) ) { document.getElementsByName=function(str) { str=new String(str); var myMatches=new Array(); var allEls=document.getElementsByTagNam [read] Keywords: document
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Bush and Gates get the LOLCats treatment
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 4:20a Steve McDonagh
Kudos to Vowe!See the rest here [read] Keywords: ipod
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%RLS1uT6I3x%
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 4:00a Steve McDonagh
%%gqTTM5Us%% [read] Keywords: |
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Because I don't know about it therefore it doesnt exist
Thu, Aug 14th 2008 4:39p Steve McDonagh
Gentle reader I was challenged the other day by a passing "person of faith". In the summer we have have a plethora of missions one of which "New Horizon" had as a guest speaker this year Dr John Lennox Oxford mathematician and Christian apologist. This has had the side effect that we now have "people of faith" who now have a scientist who can be waved at recalcitrant heathens like my self as proof that both god exists and there is a scientist that can prove it. Now I have no great problem with [read] Keywords: google
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Pleasantly Poetic Spam
Tue, Aug 12th 2008 5:43a Steve McDonagh
It is not often you get a bit of spam where you look twice this one did. The bot that wrote this deserves a prize for pseudo creativity! You are quite a Mephistopheles, Will--I say it to my sorrow. Would that I were in your place. Would that you were. Fifteen years ago I might have called the chance a magnificent one. [read] Keywords: |
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JJOTD (Jolly Jape Of The Day)
Mon, Aug 11th 2008 6:33a Steve McDonagh
Oh this is priceless! Somerset council have paired up with IBM in a $400m outsourcing contract. One of their stated, on paper, there in black and white tasks is to understand the use of jargon and acronyms used by IBM. I was once been told by an IBM HW engineer that one of our System 38s "had ceased to be operational because of an AMD failure" "A what?" i replied "An AMD failure" He restated "Woz that?" I asked "An Air Movement Device" He said "Oh you mean a fan" sayz I "No I mean an AMD, Fa [read] Keywords: ibm
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Yellow day Panic!!!
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 7:32p Steve McDonagh
Bum bugger blast and shite! It is yellow day tomorrow well today actually (it's 00:08 here) and I don't possess anything that is remotely yellow in colour. To late to panic now i suppose but it does feel like I am letting the side down I may have to resort to pretending to be yellow... hmm or perhaps eat alot of bananas.... bananas oh yeah memories of saturday mornings when my little sisters would be wathcing this lot.... they are not yellow but they have 2 levels of separation from yellowness. [read] Keywords: |
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Another SciFi tale of strangness on my other blog
Sat, Aug 9th 2008 6:33p Steve McDonagh
I have just written another tale of quarks and large hadron colliders and Ireland on my other blog... if you fancy a quick tale of strangeness you can read it here [read] Keywords: |
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Now this is quite odd and it came (sorta) via Ed Brill's site
Sat, Aug 9th 2008 3:22p Steve McDonagh
This arrived in my mail today, snuck in under the spam radar so to speak now normally I wouldn't even give this a second thought. But look were they found "my profile". Ed are you running a dating site now? If you are I prefer blondes ;-) Click to make it bigger. PS I KNOW they just harvested my mail address and I should be more careful ;-) [read] Keywords: profile
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Dieting Is Fun - My ARSE! (or Standing on Scales Tension Syndrome)
Fri, Aug 8th 2008 6:19p Steve McDonagh
Now I am fairly close to what used to be called a "new man". I am in touch with my feminine side. I cry at some DVD's, I can iron my socks I can throw together a dinner party for 6 on the way home from work. What I am not is one of those men to whom dieting comes naturally or easily. I started on this particular spree of under-indulgence a month ago and the exercise is OK. I didn't go all out mad and join a gym. No %^$&ing chance of that! Too much damp lycra riding up the sheughs of my port [read] Keywords: wiki
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The 10 office commandments
Fri, Aug 8th 2008 7:40a Steve McDonagh
Came across this the other day in an email from a chum on the interwebthingie. It is probably so old it has hair whiter than my own. But it was the first time I have seen it and it made me smile. PARTICULARLY VIII! I had to be very nice to stores for my postits so keep your F***ing hands off! I. Thou Shalt Have No Other Life Beside Work II. Thou Shalt Not Download Any Craven Images III. Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of Thy Manager in Vain IV. Remember the Sabbath Day to Work and Keep it wholy [read] Keywords: notes
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GONAD News
Wed, Aug 6th 2008 7:59p Steve McDonagh
GONAD has just passed the 100 member mark! We now have members in the following countries America, Anguilla, Australia,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia&Herzegovina,Canada, Czech Rep,Denmark,England,France,Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy,Malaysia,Mongolia,Norway,Portugal,Scotland,Spain and Switzerland. and we have over 100 members! It is with great pleasure that I can let you know that our 100th member was a Honorary Membership afforded after due consideration by a quorum of Worshipful Grand Dragons [read] Keywords: domino
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IIS fronting one of my web servers - Thanks to all who helped!!
Wed, Aug 6th 2008 10:10a Steve McDonagh
When Isaac Newton quipped that he was "standing on the shoulders of giants" he was pretty close to the mark when it comes to the Lotus network of folk on the Internet. Ask a question and within the day a problem that had caused me major indigestion and irritability was gone., all because we are a community that takes the time to help each other. This isn't the first time it has happened but each time it does makes me proud to be part of a group that is so open to helping each other! A big Thank [read] Keywords: domino
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Fireman Sam will save the universe at CERN
Wed, Aug 6th 2008 7:30a Steve McDonagh
Gentle reader I was browsing TWITTER and came across this link from fellow GONAD Simon Scullion. They are really amazing piccies from the building of the biggest geek toy every made The Large Hadron collider. This will allow men in white coats to play sub atomic "Conkers" with itty bitty pieces of matter! Now the chaps that suck their pencils and do very very hard math assure us they know what they are doing and I am sure they do but when you get this close to the edge of what we as a species kn [read] Keywords: archive
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HELP ! where are the WAS plugins for domino in Version 8.0.1?
Mon, Aug 4th 2008 8:10p Steve McDonagh
Any gurus out there lend a hand please. Where have the following gone cos I cant find them on our 8.0.1 servers c:\\data\plugins\plugin-cfg.xml c:\\data\domino\\w32\ has the WAS plugin ceased to be for notes. The reason I ask is we want to run one of the servers behind an IIS server and use it as a front end server on the dangerous outside the firewal and the plugin used to relay the data back and forth to the domino server. Anyone done this any tips traps redbooks etc you can point me at wo [read] Keywords: domino
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GONAD News - GONAD fame spreads to Australian pastry makers
Mon, Aug 4th 2008 7:00p Steve McDonagh
Thanks to Brother Kipil in Australia for this :-) [read] Keywords: blogger
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GONAD News - More and More countries join the flock.
Mon, Aug 4th 2008 6:09p Steve McDonagh
GONADs all be upstanding! We have some new O's to welcome to the fold. India Malaysia Bosnia & Herzegovina Czech Republic Scotland (home of NotesBeer(tm)) Italy Mongolia All now have their Worshipful Grand Dragons! The keyboard has been red hot here in GONAD Central compiling lists and getting Certificates out to new members I do apologize for any delays but the response has been startling! I would also like to welcome associate member Kitty Elsmore who was by popular demand inducted into [read] Keywords: domino
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GONAD Application Processing temporarily suspended
Mon, Aug 4th 2008 4:59a Steve McDonagh
To all my GONAD readers that have applied for membership today Monday. I do apologise, your membership will be processed as soon as I get home this evening (I am in the BST time zone). This hiatus is caused by my bosses not allowing me to administer my GONADs during working hours. [read] Keywords: application
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GONAD news and a poll for the brothers and sisters!
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 9:19p Steve McDonagh
Here in GONAD central, affectionately known as the "Jock Strap" it has been busy busy busy over the weekend with applications flooding in from all 4 corners of the globe. There are now O's in:- Anguilla Australia Austria Belgium Canada Denmark England France Germany Holland Ireland (both North and South) Norway Portugal Switzerland USA Welcome to GONADs one and welcome GONADS all! It is early days and I am hoping for a O to start in Scotland, one in Wales and one in Italy we can then arrange a [read] Keywords: applications
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The Chronicles of GONAD - The degrees of GONAD
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 3:09p Steve McDonagh
I have been asked by the recently joined members what the hierarchy of GONAD is and were they fall in it. Well it is like this. The 3 Sections There are 3 sections to the Order. An OU is the lowest section where the general membership exists and they are grouped together by location. For example I am in the Belfast OU of the Order. OU's cluster together into O's For example the Belfast OU is in the Irish O of the Order. O's then are clustered in the Global GONAD Domain. This can be expressed as [read] Keywords: admin
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I have another wee story over on my t'other blog
Sun, Aug 3rd 2008 7:40a Steve McDonagh
Just case you haven't noticed :-) I have another blog just for short stories... and I have just posted another one here. This one is about the dangers of pissing of one of the Irish mythological races, the Kelpies. [read] Keywords: |
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People who aren't me
Sat, Aug 2nd 2008 6:29p Steve McDonagh
AS part of the whiole Cuil nonsense once again I |
