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Friday, 16 December 2011

Mad and Gay Music?

Posted on 17:14 by Unknown

By pure coincidence, the other day two websites came to my attention. Both are concerned with music but in markedly different and, to me -- by their very juxtaposition in my stream of awareness – rather amusing ways.

www.madmusic.comFirstly, there’s Captain Wayne’s MadMusic.com (originally called The Doctor Demento Show) which is a huge archive of tunes going back to the first show in 1972. It’s rather zany yet rewarding, you’ve really got to visit the site to comprehend and appreciate it.

In stark contrast, there’s Love God’s Way Ministries who say they “specialize in Christian topics other so-called Churches do not want to deal with. Recently, we’ve started work on the Homosexual problem.  We believe they can be fixed and we have created a means of fixing them.”Love Gods Way Ministries (home page)

Being an old square I happen to listen almost exclusively to orchestral (“classical”) music, jazz, the Big Bands, and other mainly instrumental music.

So I have only the slightest experience of most of today's “popular” music, the supposedly-dangerous Gay Bands that they list:

“One of the most dangerous ways Homosexuality invades family life is through popular music.  Parents, please keep careful watch over your children’s listening habits. … We Strongly recommend that you burn the CDs” they say.

Nor do I have more than the slightest experience listening to the Safe Bands that they  have cataloged.

Perhaps you’d be interested in reviewing their two lists, the devilish versus heavenly bands, giving your opinions and explaining it all to an out-of-touch old timer?

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Friday, 25 November 2011

NotesConnect (Nping) wherefore art thou?

Posted on 07:28 by Unknown

Does anybody know where to download a copy of that old faithful, Notes Ping (nping.exe), more recently renamed to NotesConnect.

I haven’t managed to find a downloadable copy anywhere.

Since the Lotus Sandbox is no longer extant. Stupid decision, IBM.  Why decommit a very handy tool like this (and all the others in the Lotus Sandbox)?

Surely you could have left the sandbox open as a “no longer supported but we hope you might still get some value from it” archive.

Are there any newer, alternative and/or better free Notes connectivity tester tools?

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Monday, 22 August 2011

Clean, non-polluting wind power in action

Posted on 01:19 by Unknown

 

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Tuesday, 26 July 2011

The programmer/developer/coder role is not dead – and long live the project manager!

Posted on 17:41 by Unknown


It’s no problem being a geek, it would seem, according to Jason Hiner in his ZDNet blog posting The future of IT jobs? It's in three types of roles

You may or may not agree, but it makes interesting reading.

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Monday, 18 July 2011

Will code XPages for food?

Posted on 17:27 by Unknown


There’s a LinkedIn discussion group named Gurus of Lotus – Worldwide with one discussion thread that I’ve been following from a distance: What can we do to promote the technology that we all love?

This is, in turn, an extension of an older thread What do you think? Is Notes fading away? – a more recent variation of the “Is Lotus Notes dead?” theme.

It makes me wonder if we need a version of the following image for Lotus Notes:
[tongue in cheek]

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Will code HTML for food

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Saturday, 11 June 2011

The Cloud Changes What IT Pros Do, but how?

Posted on 04:00 by Unknown


Here’s an interesting view on how “The Cloud” can change what IT professionals have to do, according to Chris Murphy, interviewing Brady Corp's CIO Bentley Curran (in the Global CIO column of InformationWeek, 23 April 2011).

Go read the entire interview, which starts off:

As companies move more of their software to the cloud, there are some indispensible skills IT pros need to hone or acquire, and they’re not technical skills.

and further on:

Now those staffers are doing things like working with the company's R&D to ensure that employees in its Asian and U.S. design centers can do the kind of collaboration they need to, using Google apps. For example, IT employees have helped colleagues use Google Sites to set up their own project pages, so they can post content rather than emailing it around.

Cloud software can bring its compromises--fewer features, less ability to customize. Google Apps doesn't have all the features and functions of Microsoft Exchange, Curran says, and IT leaders need to make that fact clear to their colleagues.

But people are using more features than they were in Lotus because Apps is easy to use, Curran says. And, it's has lowered costs, let IT focus more on strategy than implementation, and met Brady's global collaboration needs. The only real hiccup has been for its employees in China using Google Apps. "One day it'll be working, the next day a certain group of people will just be denied access to certain functionality, and you can't predict it," Curran says.

Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange are being kept on their toes, it seems.

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Friday, 10 June 2011

The Hungry Beast lurking Down Under goes into retreat

Posted on 00:15 by Unknown


The final episode of Season Three of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s excellent HUNGRY BEAST techno show aired this week [on Wednesday 8th June 2011]. Read more about Hungry Beast here.

Hurry if you would like to view this latest episode, because for some strange reason (unlike other series, such as the Catalyst science show) the ABC takes each episode offline after a week or two.

The 2011 final episode’s lead story is Stuxnet: the first computer virus specifically designed to be a weapon (taking offline for a while Iran’s nuclear facilities, for example) …

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