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Yancy Lent
I can’t remember what I was thinking when I put this together. It was part therapy; in letting everyone know about Ethan and part; “Will I look like a fool if no one jumps on board”. After 58 donations totaling $6,150.48 the latter of the two thoughts is a long lost memory.
I can’t express how grateful I am for the out reach of generosity from this amazing community.
For those curious about Ethan, he is doing A OK. He just had his 6 week check up at the Jimmy Fund Clinic and got a clean bill of health. Everyday he is building more and more strength. This past Independence Day weekend at Cape Cod his energy level was right on par with his brother and sister. Swimming, miniature golf, bike riding, he couldn’t get enough.
The countdown to the ride is now less then a month away. I am so ready. I look forward to documenting as much of the event as possible.
If you’re interested in learning more about the event, the charity drive or feeling like making a $8.50 (beta donation please visit http://charity.planetlotus.org
planetlotus.org/Broadcastr Public Beta
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 7:29p Yancy Lent The list of features keeps growing. My favorite, a version of twitter that sits behind the firewall, in this case behind a successful Planet Lotus registration. In short, search engines won’t pick up your posts and you can post freely from Loti to Loti, I don’t plan on making this module public.
Other new features, Group and Project support. That’s right, create a group, say Priceless Quotes, and post messages. Anyone following it will have your quote/post show up on their pa [read] Keywords: admin
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Broadcastr prototype is Live.
Mon, Nov 3rd 2008 6:17p Yancy Lent Feel free to kick the tires. It uses your myPL login information.
http://planetlotus.org/broadcastr/
There are some missing pieces, rss, pagination, etc. They’ll get there in over time. Feel free drop the project “Broadcastr Comments” an idea or two or if you have to “Broadcastr Bugs”. Maybe the application will help in making the application better.
Before you enter remember one thing, its Twitter meets Facebook “Wall”, it has some of each. Essentiall [read] Keywords: document
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How to win my vote in 2008
Mon, Oct 27th 2008 9:24a Yancy Lent My vote goes to the candidate who pledges to force auto makers to add a “I have my high beams on” blue light to the front of cars. So there is no uncertainty. [read] Keywords:
299 ‘active’ Lotus blogs updated hourly, what it means.
Tue, Sep 30th 2008 8:07p Yancy Lent There was a lot of talk about a month back about getting to the 300 blog mark on Planet Lotus. It is an exciting milestone but that number when it is reached only means that there is 300 ‘active’ blogs checked on an hourly basis. Over the past year there have been many sites dropped and active is the most common reason. One of the services I offer with the sites is the knowledge that the blogs listed are relevant, active and information that Loti would enjoy reading.
Over the past ye [read] Keywords: lotus
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Mining Chrome on Planet Lotus
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 8:45p Yancy Lent Vowe and Ed have been posting their Chrome stats, here are mine from Planet Lotus.org
1 Firefox 65.27%
2 Internet Explorer 20.89%
3 Chrome 8.22%
4 Safari 3.27%
5 Opera 2.18%
6 Blazer 0.07%
7 Mozilla 0.07%
8 Konqueror 0.02%
9 Mozilla Compatible Agent 0.01%
10 SAMSUNG-SGH-i600 0.01%
Per Google Analytics.
From the statcounter blog: The Chrome browse [read] Keywords: agent
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Why Facebook is moving past Linkedin as my favorite Social Website.
Tue, Aug 26th 2008 9:39p Yancy Lent For the last couple years Linkedin has been a great way to link up with people I’ve worked or work with. The treasure I find is both the syncing and the permanence of the sync. I’ll have their contact info no matter which country, job or cell phone number they move to down the road, of course with-in reason, they could remove their account.
The limitation or magic of Linkedin is in the lens I view it. I view it from the perspective of those who I’ve worked with or those I want to be profes [read] Keywords: connections
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tinyPL
Thu, Aug 14th 2008 8:39p Yancy Lent URL compression has landed on Planet Lotus. I don’t plan on making the URL’s public and they will be around as long as the site is online. Bottom line its a fun way to promote Lotus blogs.
tinyPL will turn a long URL into a smaller one, most of the time; at worst it will be branded. An example would be: http://www.yancylent.com to http://planetlotus.org/t/1
My favorite is http://is.gd. It’s where a lot of the PL implementation ideas came from. I use it to ensure long URL’ [read] Keywords: lotus
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My Twitter Experiment
Tue, Aug 12th 2008 10:32p Yancy Lent I really enjoy reading posts from the Lotus community regarding thoughts on Twitter. The latest is from Andrew Pollack. I side with about half the post. I agree that its unfortunate that its become a chat room but i disagree that that’s a bad thing. It was architected for serve one purpose but grew into something else… so you adapt, you re-architect and improve on the model the masses have chosen. Back to what we agree on, the chat aspect. What if we could toggle it?
I’ve gone [read] Keywords: lotus
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Pan Mass. Challenge 2008 Official Finisher
Fri, Aug 8th 2008 4:49p Yancy Lent It was everything and more then I ever thought it would be. Here are my thoughts and reflections on this amazing event.
Friday Evening
I arrived at the Sturbridge Guest Hotel at around 5 and was quickly overwhelmed. There were people and bikes everywhere. I made my way to the registration area after getting a lay of the land. I turned into the large registration room and quickly did a u-turn. The one thing I was worried about, the one thing I couldn’t train away was happening 10 minutes into [read] Keywords: lotus
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He’ll get there by Noon.
Thu, Jul 31st 2008 5:50p Yancy Lent This weekend is the big ride and my mind is mush. The stress of getting everything right is both useful and useless. I know in the end everything will run smoothly but the stress in a way helps me to make sure I get to that end; that successful end.
I have such a draw to this event. Many are less then obvious. The biggest of the less then obvious reasons is the concept of the ‘Pan Mass’, literally translated a ride across the state. But as an endurance purest the fact that its not ac [read] Keywords:
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What does your blog look like?
Thu, Jul 31st 2008 2:49p Yancy Lent I’ve added a little bling to the profiles at planetlotus.org. They now feature, along with a *twitter image, an image of your blog front page. This is done through a service call to http://www.girafa.com. Girafa offers free thumnail images of web pages. Free up to 2,000 calls a day. The implimnetation was pretty easy but the registration process was a little teadious. Anway there are some drawback that I wanted air before the emails come in.
They don’t have images on file for all si [read] Keywords: connections
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The ultimate celebrity sighting while on vacation.
Wed, Jul 23rd 2008 7:46p Yancy Lent Since I was a kid I’ve always kept a short list in my head of celebrities I’d most like to see out in public. As I’ve gotten older those on the list have changed from Hollywood / movie types to sports figures, until a couple years ago I came up with the ultimate celebrity; the Bald Eagle.
Today, alone in a Kayak on the North East side of Alfred Lake in Hope, Maine my telephoto lens came within a hundred feet of a Bald Eagle in flight.
It was shortly out of sight but I was able to g [read] Keywords: laptop
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Wanted: Super feed testers.
Mon, Jul 14th 2008 9:46a Yancy Lent In requesting this I guess Im also announcing that its coming, it is… and soon! If you are interested in being one of the first to configure and get it running please reply below with the name of the rss reader you use. I will email you the details. [read] Keywords: lotus
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101.5 mile ride today. I’m ready.
Sun, Jul 13th 2008 9:04p Yancy Lent By the numbers.
Time 5:30:28 at the 100 mile turn over.
Avg. MPH 18.1
Water bottles emptied 4.5, half Gatorade, half water.
PowerBars: 5 (PowerBar Performance / Peanut Butter)
Pain meds: 2 Advil at the 60 mile mark; shoulders. (3 more when im done writing this)
Minutes listening to my iPod: 0
Miles drafting behind other riders: 0
Times my feet cramped up: Once, each foot, both during mile 99 (very weird).
Times somenone in a car yelled at me: 0. Just a kid in his yard. I have no clue wh [read] Keywords: ipod
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The Lotus Community Charity Drive passes the $6,000 US mark!
Mon, Jul 7th 2008 4:13p Yancy Lent I can’t remember what I was thinking when I put this together. It was part therapy; in letting everyone know about Ethan and part; “Will I look like a fool if no one jumps on board”. After 58 donations totaling $6,150.48 the latter of the two thoughts is a long lost memory.
I can’t express how grateful I am for the out reach of generosity from this amazing community.
For those curious about Ethan, he is doing A OK. He just had his 6 week check up at the Jimmy Fund Clinic and got [read] Keywords: document
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Wordle and the Bridal Shower
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 3:31p Yancy Lent I’ve passed on exactly 2 blog posts from the Lotus community to my wife. The first one was a game Carl Tyler posted and the second was Alan Lepofsky’s on Wordle (admittedly after reading 5 or 6 other wordle posts).
I was expecting a reply of cool, instead the reply simply came back, ‘adicted!’. This all happened a week ago, and a week before the bridal shower that she was planning for her sister.
Here are the pictures of how she used the wordles as both a gift and as part [read] Keywords: lotus
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Teaching others is learning twice.
Sat, Jun 28th 2008 9:22p Yancy Lent That’s my quote of the day. I saw it on a church billboard in Seabrook, NH earlier today. Thought it was worth passing on. I’ve never heard the saying before so it stuck, apparetnly google hasn’t either.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Teaching+others+is+learning+twice%22&btnG=Google+Search [read] Keywords: google
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How to get your post listed on Planet Lotus the second it’s published.
Fri, Jun 27th 2008 9:33a Yancy Lent Planet Lotus for some time now has offered a real-time feed update that anyone can perform. If you choose not to use this feature, no big deal, your feed is polled every 20 minutes. It does it in the order of everyone’s last post. This way those that have posted recently will be checked last causing their new posts to be higher in the list.
To do a real-time update simply open your profile and click the real-time update icon. It looks identical to the view refresh icon in Notes; it’s act [read] Keywords: lotus
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Training Update
Thu, Jun 26th 2008 3:33p Yancy Lent What is the proper training for a two day, 192 mile ride? I’ve asked this over and over again to anyone that’s done the big miles and each time I get different answer. They range from, if you can do 50, you’re fine, up to, and my favorite, do the distance for your training, in other words go out next weekend and do 111, (total mileage for day one).
I’m very happy with my training and feel I’m on course, however I have been stuck in the 19 mph blues. For some reason I’ve not b [read] Keywords: lotus
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Search 10 Lotus community sites from one page.
Wed, Jun 18th 2008 9:59a Yancy Lent Give it a try…
http://planetlotus.org/search.php?search=widget&sort=1
This idea actually came from a comment Peter Presnell posted on Nathan’s blog. I would have left a comment saying how wonderful his idea was but I was gone coding this neat utility while it was fresh. Looking back at his suggestion. It would be great if high traffic, Lotus owned community sites would promote other non-Lotus community sites. Wouldn’t that only serve to enhance end user self service, save m [read] Keywords: lotus
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Announcing Planet Lotus Downloads!
Tue, Jun 17th 2008 6:58a Yancy Lent It is with great joy that I announce planetlotus.org/downloads beta, a community based catalog of Lotus related downloads, widgets, session slides, example databases, third party products, whitepapers, your product, utilities, the files from your blog navigator… anything. It works in the spirit of download.com, shareware.com or tucows.com; and makes file downloads easy to track down and use.Downloads will not be stored on this site, planetlotus.org/downloads will house all of the downloads [read] Keywords: lotus
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Our community has too many downloads
Mon, Jun 16th 2008 5:58p Yancy Lent Add to that widgets, session slides, example databases, third party products, whitepapers, your product, utilities, the files from your blog navigator… the list goes on. A couple weeks back I counted about 4 listed in blog posts over the course of a few days. Going back a little to the Notes 8.1 launch and the ensuing widget gold rush, I was amazed at how difficult it was to track things down downloads like Mikkel Heisterberg’s twitnotes and the Turtle Partnership’s widget database. Th [read] Keywords: lotus
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Planet Lotus Performance Update
Wed, Jun 4th 2008 6:06p Yancy Lent As many of you can tell, the site feels a bit spry this week. Sunday I spent all day moving it from a P.Of S. Virtual Dedicated Server to a Dedicated Server at godaddy.com. I don’t think, in generally anything is wrong with Godaddy’s VDSs, I just feel I got/we got an unlucky overtaxed piece of hardware.
This upgrade will give me the opportunity to grow the idea and offer it as a hosted solution. If you’re interested in replicating the idea for your company, hobby, etc, contact me. It can [read] Keywords: lotus
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SnTT: A screen shot of your web page from 64 browsers - 4 OS’s
Thu, May 29th 2008 8:24p Yancy Lent I don’t have a Mac or access to a Linux box; anymore, so testing the look of web pages on non-windows systems is… almost never done. When you add to that multiple browers and multiple versions of those browsers the task becomes daunting.
In steps browsershots.org. Simply enter your url, select the browsers you want to test against and it generate a full page, full length screen shot; its money! You can even download all the images as one zip file.
I can see this being very handy for [read] Keywords: agent
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New toy: Canon EF 70-200MM f/4.0L IS USM zoom lens.
Tue, May 27th 2008 10:21p Yancy Lent I should say new Family toy. This purchase is 3 years overdue. I promised myself long ago I would get a zoom the day the kids started sports; sorry Emma! We still have many great shots with our stock 17-55 lens.
This was an interesting purchase; at least the research phase. Neither Johanna and I are professional photographers; by any stretch of the imagination, but we love taking pictures and i know I’ll be taking a ton from the sidelines. The interesting part was, the more reading I did t [read] Keywords:
SnTT: Mail Folder Count
Thu, May 8th 2008 3:04p Yancy Lent If you’ve ever wondered how many folders are in your Notes mail databases…
Add the code below your catalog.nsf as a new agent
Select the agent properties similar to the image below; tweak as you wish.
Paste the sub in.
Run againt selected documents in any view.
The field FOLDERCOUNT will be created and populated.
Make sure you have access to the databases you are running it against and access to edit the catalog document. Also note that this is temporary because cat docs are dispos [read] Keywords: agent
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Overhaulin’ - The Dolphin and Swan Hotel Edition
Sun, May 4th 2008 9:45a Yancy Lent A coworker just came back from a family vacation at Disney. She stayed at the Dolphin, after years and years of hearing us talk about it at Lotusphere. Aparently the quality of the rooms never came up because when she got there she couldn’t get over how out of date, bland and humid they were. This led to a polite conversation with the hotel management where they (leaked?) a makeover was in the works. The Swan will be done this Summer and the Dolphin this Fall.
So we could all be staying in [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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FILEing for separation
Sat, May 3rd 2008 11:35p Yancy Lent Since my first day in the professional world I have gone out of my way to keep work and personal things, on my computer; separate. Files, email accounts, bookmarks, all of them are divided into two camps.
For files, everything either goes into folders titled AllYancy or AllWork. Easy as pie. This way I can point the corporate backup at AllWork and my personal USB drive at AllYancy.
For email, work email is work email; only. Well except for the times I wanted to show off and give out yancy_lent@l [read] Keywords: lotus
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Eliot: 3 years 8 months and riding a 2 wheeler.
Mon, Apr 28th 2008 10:09a Yancy Lent I glanced out the window to catch Eliot hammer the peddles of his little bike with training wheels on it. He had to go get though the think Spring grass. I couldn’t help but think how riding with training wheels around the lawn has helped his confidence. He just looked ready and determined. So when 20 minutes later Ethan came into the kitchen with a big grin on his face I know something big was going on. “Dad you have to come out and see what Eliot is doing”. You could see the prid [read] Keywords:
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Emotionally Drained
Tue, Apr 15th 2008 6:13p Yancy Lent I am in awe of the outpouring of generosity from the greater Lotus community. Thank you everyone, and this isn’t the last time I will say it.. thank you for your donation.
When someone makes a donation, I don’t learn about it until hours later and they come in batches; the batch have been overwhelming. Over the last year, having the occasional tear (or tw..enty) in my eyes at work isn’t all that uncommon, today they are a different type. The early totals are mind boggling.
I have Gregg Eld [read] Keywords: lotus
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Help me say FUCK YOU to CANCER
Mon, Apr 14th 2008 10:49a Yancy Lent Please read this first… charity.planetlotus.org
I have been thinking about this day for months, the day that I change gears and start training for my 192 mile charity bike ride on August 2nd and 3rd. I invite you to join me on the journey.
I have launched charity.planetlotus.org to reach out to our greater Lotus Community with one question in mind. How much can we raise to eviscerate this nasty disease? If this site has in any way helped you, brought you entertainment, saved you tim [read] Keywords: lotus
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How I got started with Lotus Notes.
Thu, Apr 10th 2008 2:36p Yancy Lent It all started as an intern at Massachusetts Port Authority. I was the assistant to the assistant of the Executive Director. I was at my desk doing my favorite task, cutting out Massport related articles from the local papers when the guy that’s office was just past my desk asked me the one question that started it all. If you’re looking for something to do we’re trying to put together a spreadsheet based expense report; or something to that affect.
So there I was, automating a Lotus 123 v [read] Keywords: lotus
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planetlotus.org meets tinyurl.com
Sun, Mar 30th 2008 9:59p Yancy Lent This weekend I spent some time shortening the urls you see at the site. I compressed this
http://planetlotus.org/view.php?bid=10&pid=19186&lid=5
to this
http://planetlotus.org/1d4688
My primary objective was to make the urls easier to port. The click totals that you see everywhere on the site aren’t limited to clicks made at the site. You can take that bottom url, put it anywhere and unique hits will be incremented at Planet Lotus. Think about that the next time you pay tribute to [read] Keywords: lotus
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SnTT: IM YellowBleeders without Sametime.
Fri, Mar 28th 2008 12:20p Yancy Lent Yes; I know it’s Friday.
Here is how to configure Pidgin to ‘Sametime’ with the greater YellowBleeders community. More details on Pidgin here. The following is the instructions for Pidgin on Ubuntu. I will assume the same procedure will work for Windows.
1. In Pidgin click Accounts / Add/Edit. Once open click Add.
2. Add your account info
3. Click the Advance tab.
4. Add the im.bleedyellow.com server
5. Change the proxy type to No Proxy then Save.
6. Go back to the main dialo [read] Keywords: lotus
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Excessive email and text are ‘mental illness’.
Mon, Mar 24th 2008 9:31p Yancy Lent The following is from the news.com.au story on Excessive emails and text are a mental illness
As more people leave the office computer, only to log on as soon as they get home, the American Journal of Psychiatry has found addiction to text messaging and emailing could be another form of mental illness.
Guilty!
Read more here… [read] Keywords: email
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Blog Posts to Planet Lotus on Demand…
Mon, Mar 24th 2008 12:49p Yancy Lent Sick of waiting for your posts to arrive on Planet Lotus? The power is now in your hands. Simply bookmark or navigate to your Planet Lotus profile and click the refresh button. Your profile can be found by clicking on any occurrence of your name; or your blogs name, on the front page.
Also added is a timestamp of the last time the scheduled task visited your feed.
This refresh button can also be used to troubleshoot your feed. Please check your feed at feedvalidator.org before notifying me.
Pl [read] Keywords: lotus
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Planet Lotus is Moving…
Mon, Mar 17th 2008 12:53p Yancy Lent The growing pains and lack of control of my current shared hosting account has caused me to upgrade to a Virtual Dedicated Server. This is good news! To start, this weekend I tested the broken feeds on a VDS from the same vendor and the test group I used all came back successful, (no proxy/no squid/yes good!). This also means a slight performance increase for page loads and potentially speed and frequency of collecting feeds; all in theory of course.
I will start working on this as soon as the V [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Notes 1.0 Desktop Video
Mon, Mar 10th 2008 9:48a Yancy Lent Yesterday Carl Tyler put together a quick screencase to show how the Lotus Notes 1.0 desktop worked. He did it to illustrate a comment he made on vowe.net. I loved watching it and I’m assuming many of you out there would get a kick out of it. Those that never got the pleasure of working with 1.0.
Thanks to BleedYellow, I was able to Sametime Carl just after watching it to see if he made others, he didn’t but i learned in the process… Given that i started with Notes 3.3 I always [read] Keywords: lotus
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Running Journal Summary - Week ending 3/9.
Sun, Mar 9th 2008 9:58p Yancy Lent This week v. Last week
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Mar 09 08
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6.70
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8:46
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8:33
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6.50
58:34
9:01
03:54:14
8:39
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Today - (Sun March 9th)
ROWLEY, MA - This run was more like it. I started off ok and it kept getting better until the last two miles where I was really picking up speed. My full body was into it which I haven’t felt all that much lately. This was the second run on the new [read] Keywords: server
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When does Cycling season officially start?
Sun, Mar 9th 2008 12:17p Yancy Lent Ever sport I’ve ever followed has had an opening day. Cycling is no different. It starts with the Spring Classics (one to a few days in length) and then leads up to the grand tours, Italy, France and Spain (there are only 3) with other major races sprinkled in between.
The part I struggle with is, not only is cycling my favorite sport to watch but its also my favorite sport to take part in. I don’t race per say but i do ride a lot either alone, with clubs or in triathlons. So the op [read] Keywords: blackberry
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Lotus 911’s Dirty Little Secret
Fri, Mar 7th 2008 1:19p Yancy Lent Just about 100 of us are using their Sametime gateway at bleedyellow.com to have random, often personal conversations. The trouble is, all our ‘keystrokes’ are going through their server. The beauty of Sametime is all of this can be logged… but it isn’t. Guess how I know? Tim Tripcony said so! You may find that funny but if you’ve ever read his posts on politics, government, etc. you’d understand why that’s all I need to know.
But for some of us in the community this isn’t en [read] Keywords: lotus
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I can has 8 trillion bits per second?
Mon, Mar 3rd 2008 2:07p Yancy Lent This is pretty amazing stuff, if only Verizon could use it to decrease the time it takes to redraw the image when you cycle through channels…
IBM thinks the technology — dubbed “green optical link” — could spark a revolution in high-def content. For instance, Web sites that offer movies could use it to access libraries of millions of high-definition videos in seconds. And laptops equipped with optical data ports could download such content in an instant. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Running Journal Summary - Week ending 3/2.
Sun, Mar 2nd 2008 5:47p Yancy Lent Total: 26.0 miles _ 03:54:14 hours
Average: 58:34 run _ 9:01 pace _ 6.5 distance
Today - (Sun March 2nd)
ROWLEY, MA - Title: If this journal had a title this would read. I’m nice, but not that nice.
I got outside and braved the ice and bone chilling wind. The sun was out so it wasn’t all that bad. My wife told me the guy down the street, an acquaintance of ours was out running in 4 degree weather the other day; he beat me by 2 degrees, 6 and 106 are my min and max; Vegas. Back to the ru [read] Keywords: wiki
Caffeine for the Creative Mind. My photo project
Fri, Feb 29th 2008 12:48p Yancy Lent Book: Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain
I saw this book in the pile that my wife got from the Library. “Cool, what’s this one all about”, I said as I totally judged the book by its cover. She went on to describe one of the exercises. It went something like this. Walk around your house and take 20 pictures of things that make a circle and make sure that circle is about the same size in every picture.
1. Cup of orange juice in a red plastic cub [read] Keywords:
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IM bleeding yellowr.
Tue, Feb 26th 2008 5:13p Yancy Lent My head is spinning from all the excitement in the Lotus air. The short lived post Lotusphere lull came to an abrupt end with the release of ND 8.0.1. and then Notes Widgets everywhere. Caucuses formed, catalogs were built and the masses started contributing at break neck speed.
Now Sametime is pop’n. Not due to a specific release or even an announcement, rather a clever re-announcement that drops names. And yes, the bleedyellow.com podcast also helped! The lowdown; Bleedyellow.com is hosting [read] Keywords: lotus
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Running Journal Summary - Week ending 2/24.
Mon, Feb 25th 2008 4:08p Yancy Lent Sun February 24th
4.00 miles at a 8:39 pace
ROWLEY, MA - I set out to do 8. There were a couple things that cut this run short. In random order, the first was my legs were burning at the second loop option. With the bridge work they are doing on my running route i can’t do an out and back 8, i have to do two out and back 4’s. When i got back home after 4 my legs were burning and since i did so much ‘carb’ in take at the last nights bachelor party i figured it was a good [read] Keywords: lotus
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Trying to understand Notes Widgets.
Mon, Feb 25th 2008 3:58p Yancy Lent One thing that coincided with the release 8.0.1 was a widget feeding frenzy. Every widget related blog post faired huge click through numbers at planetlotus.org. Light bulbs started firing off and within hours, Turtle Partnership / IdoNotes, OpenNTF.org and Planet Lotus jumped in to help facilitate the embracing of this exciting new feature.
But what if you don’t have 8.0.1? If you’re interested in the inner mechanics of what Notes widgets are all about, look no further then Chris Brandl [read] Keywords: lotus
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Running Journal Summary - Week ending 2/17.
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 6:22p Yancy Lent A couple of months ago I started this blog and set it as my default home page; yancylent.com and moved my running log back to yancylent.com/running/. This was all well and good until I recently got back into running. I am now struggling with how to combine them.
I think for now I’ll post a summary of the week on Sundays. This way I can keep my running log which I’ve been keeping for years intact. I like having the blog up front. I would love to integrate the two but for now that’s not goin [read] Keywords: database
An “under the covers” look at Lotus Connections
Fri, Feb 15th 2008 2:43p Yancy Lent Mitch Cohen has put together a step by step walk though of his Lotus Connections implementation. Mitch goes beyond his choices and presents all the different implementation options, i.e., db flavors, directory integration, etc. It’s a great introduction to this exciting and very MODERN offering from Lotus.
If you’re interested in taking a peek under the covers, do check his post out!
Now the story behind the story. Mitch starts his post expalaining how it came to be. Now my side of t [read] Keywords: connections
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Ironman World Championship - This Sat. at 2:00p EST on NBC
Wed, Feb 13th 2008 4:54p Yancy Lent Check your local listings! I’ve been burned by this and missed it more then once!
If you’re looking for any motivation this weekend, you’ll find a ton in this broadcast. Even if you’re not into triathlons the production quality, editing and the personal interest stories will win anyone over.
They’ve posted a teaser on youtube. [read] Keywords:
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Ben Langhinrichs' "Help bloggers decide what to write about" idea...
Wed, Feb 13th 2008 3:56p Yancy Lent From the moment Ben expressed this idea at the Blogger BOF I was on board; for the simple reason that I struggle for things to blog about. I could blog about planet lotus all day but that would bore the piss out of everyone. Having a place to go to bat around blogging ideas would be fantastic…
Eiher the blogger could float an idea he/she was thinking about, or a non-blogger could post a topic he/she would like to see. Quickly, the community could give feedback on whether that was interest [read] Keywords: lotus
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18.2% of the weekday blog posts are unrelated to Lotus.
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 11:18a Yancy Lent The improvements i’ve done to the planetlotus.org keyword filter shows that over the past 60 days only 18.2% of the weekday blog posts are unrelated to Lotus. Given the new lower number I’ve changed the default weekday view to unfiltered. You will still have the option to view the site filtered, simply click on the half circle icon in the top nav bar.
I hope this clears up the confusion it caused, now all posts will be viewable, tagged with the option to filter.
Here is more detail of th [read] Keywords: lotus
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How to force a wrap in an html table with PHP.
Tue, Feb 5th 2008 5:59p Yancy Lent Let’s say you have a long url that’s blowing out the width of your small table, don’t look to html or css to solve this problem. Use wordwrap function.
$title = $myrow[”title”];
$newtitle = wordwrap($title, 28, “”, 1);
Thank you Amadeus at dreamincode.net
This also starts my new blogging approach. I had to read through 5 long discussion threads which included flame wars on the html spec before I got to this golden data nugget. The approach is simple. [read] Keywords: blogging
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SnTT: @Unique. Everything you ever wanted to know.
Thu, Jan 31st 2008 1:35p Yancy Lent I’ve had this for almost 10 years now. It came from an internal Lotus source back when I worked there as a developer. I took the examples out so its a partial document. For the record it was flagged ‘Public’ when I obtained it. I have removed the 2 paragraphs that were marked . If I can loose my house over this, please someone let me know asap and i will take it down.
Warning, what you are about to read is ubergeek.
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The string that @Unique return [read] Keywords: document
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The most popular planetlotus.org FAQ. Where’s the feed?
Wed, Jan 30th 2008 9:09a Yancy Lent I’ve been struggling with this question since day one. What’s worse; every day I come up with a new reason. Here is where the problems start; I give out the reason de-jour, the one on my mind and never all of them. So what better way to air them all…
Feel free to quell my feelings on the matter but the truth is I don’t see a feed anytime in the near future.
*. This site replaced my 81 Lotus blog feeds and may have replaced a lot of yours. I feel it goes against the very premise that [read] Keywords: lotus
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My run-in with Luis Suarez
Sun, Jan 27th 2008 9:44p Yancy Lent First a little background. Luis and I had emailed back and forth about Twitter and Planet Lotus a couple weeks if not days before the start of Lotusphere. I had also been doing a lot of reading of his tweets and blog entries, suffice it to say, he was one of the many I was excited to meet at Lotusphere this year.
So there we are, a group of us waiting next the beer stand at Islands of A., waiting for the other half of our larger group to get off the Hulk. I turn to throw something away and see [read] Keywords: lotus
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Saying hello to Bloggers at Lotusphere…
Sun, Jan 20th 2008 5:14p Yancy Lent I’ve been on the phone with the Lotusphere organizers since I arrived to my room at the Dolphin. I’m trying to get access to the RFID system (RFID’s are stickered to our badges) so I can link all of the bloggers at planetlotus.org. I then plan to link that info to the google maps api and post it on the mobile.planetlotus.org site…. The process will be like this… if you are viewing the mobile site and a blogger comes into your range you will get alerted, the alert will be in the form th [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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BleedYellow.com, the Good and Bad
Fri, Jan 18th 2008 10:23p Yancy Lent Let’s start with the Bad. The timing! Great for getting the word out, bad for those of us that can’t play because we’re racing to get to Orlando!
The Good… what an understatement. The site is amazing in so many ways.
Hands On
I’ve wanted to get my hands on Connections for a year now, almost exactly and forgive my ignorance if the Greenhouse provides this ability.
It’s one thing setting up a stand alone box with your own boring data, it’s another all together experiencing it wit [read] Keywords: connections
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Note To Myself - Don’t kill Greg
Sun, Jan 13th 2008 9:47p Yancy Lent Greg’s post was very timely.
Sure, mobile.planetlotus.org looks great on my Palm. But you know what? When some poor, unsuspecting soul clicks through to this site, it looks like . . . well, let’s just say that this site isn’t optimized for a handheld. Up until now, I was fine with it the way that it is, as the stats weren’t pushing me to do anything about it.
http://www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf/plinks/GELD-7ARS48
I’ve been reading a ton of mobile.planetlotus.org [read] Keywords: blackberry
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Monster.com: Find your own path. Your calling is calling.
Sun, Jan 13th 2008 9:16p Yancy Lent Monster.com doesn’t seem to put out that many commercials but when they do they’re on target and hit home. In their newest campaign; to me, they once again nail it. The focus this time is our routine of getting to work. They don’t focus so much on the auto pilot behavior that we all exhibit instead, how we seem to do it as if on ‘trapped’ on rails. We are locked into the commute as apposed to willing knowing participants.
The spot is easy on the eyes and the music sublet so as [read] Keywords:
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Another reason to leave this site… enjoy the pictures
Thu, Jan 10th 2008 9:39p Yancy Lent The new window randomly picks from the 1,241 flickr photos I was able to pull into the system using a yahoo flickr pipe. It’s essentially a search of lotusphere2005, 06 and 07 tagged photos. I plan to do something more chronological as the new lotusphere2008 pictures start arriving via public feeds. Not sure if i’ll get to this before Lotusphere.
So the question… Keep it up after Lotusphere? To distracting? Let me know when the novelty wears thin. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Blog Widget: Related posts
Fri, Jan 4th 2008 2:32p Yancy Lent Declan Lynch just emailed me what I think is an idea so cool I had to pass it along.
Basically the idea is that you could optionally pass into the widget some ‘Tags’ and instead of the widget returning the latest posts it would return the latest posts with similar tags.
The widget would obviously apply only to the post page.
Look for it soon. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotusphere 2008 and Twitter
Thu, Jan 3rd 2008 9:36a Yancy Lent I’m looking for the best way to promote the blogging community’s twitter at Lotusphere. I initially thought the Lotusphere Twitter account would do this, and maybe that is its mission, but it looks to be a handful of twitter-ers tweeting to everyone else. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
What I propose is allowing anyone with a blog posted here to either send me, or post as a comment; their twitter url / twitter rss feed and they will be included in a Twitter View off the main page.
My vis [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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