Sorry for the dead air here ... I took time off that equates to two weeks in real time. Needed some time to recharge and play the stack of games I got for Christmas! I am out in Los Angeles for the Rose Bowl on Tuesday, so not sure if I will blog between now and Jan 7th. Everyone have a safe and Happy New Year! See you in 2008.

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Adventures Of Young Indiana Jones, The: Volume 2 Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Volume 5 Balls Of Fury (Widescreen) Blade Runner: 5 Disc Ultimate Edition (#1 in the DVDPS Top 40) Blade Runner: The Final Cut (2-Disc SE) Blade Runner: The Final Cut (4-Disc Collector's Edition) (#6 in the DVDPS Top 40) Braveheart: Special Collector's Edition Bring It On: Cheerbook Collection Bring It On: In It To Win It (Widescreen) Cinderella II: Dreams Come True: SE Evil Dead: Ultimate Edition Hatchet Invasion (2006) Lovejoy: Season #2 Mod Squad, The: Season #1: Volume 1 National Treasure: 2 Disc Collector's Edition Once One Tree Hill: Season #4 Rawhide: Season #2: Volume 2 Simpsons Movie, The (Widescreen) (#7 in the DVDPS Top 40) Stardust (Widescreen) (#12 in the DVDPS Top 40) Underdog (2007) HD-DVD Movies Blade Runner (Five-Disc Complete Collector's Edition) [HD DVD] Stardust [HD DVD] Roy Orbison: Black & White Night [HD DVD] The M

In the "About Time" category ... PETER JACKSON AND NEW LINE CINEMA JOIN WITH MGM TO PRODUCE “THE HOBBIT” December 18, 2007 ACADEMY AWARD-WINNER PETER JACKSON AND NEW LINE CINEMA JOIN WITH MGM TO PRODUCE “THE HOBBIT,” EAGERLY-ANTICIPATED FANTASY ADVENTURE EPIC NEW LINE AND MGM TO CO-PRODUCE AND SHARE WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS PETER JACKSON AND FRAN WALSH TO EXECUTIVE PRODUCE TWO FILMS BASED ON “THE HOBBIT” Los Angeles, CA (Tuesday, December 18, 2007) Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson; Harry Sloan, Chairman and CEO, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM); Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs of New Line Cinema have jointly announced today that they have entered into the following series of agreements: * MGM and New Line will co-finance and co-distribute two films, “The Hobbit” and a sequel to “The Hobbit.” New Line will distribute in North America and MGM will distribute internationally. * P

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Two new movie posters for the movie I am most looking forward in 2008 ...

I am still a Star Wars fanboy ... even after movies 1, 2, & 3 ... so this is a great post about the past 30 years of holiday cards from LucasArts. There is some killer artwork in the collection. Here is the 2007 card: Check out the rest here.

I wanted to use this blog entry to personally thank Ben Langhinrichs of Genii Software for his help the past couple weeks. I have been working on a project that required the following: 1. Export a collection of Notes documents, which include Notes Rich Text fields, to a XML file. The XML file will contain HTML of the Notes Rich Text field ... that works in Access 2007 (folks, HTML support in Access 2007 is so bad ... I can not even mention it). 2. Import a XML file, that came from Access 2007, and loop thru is and update existing Notes documents. Oh yeah, and convert the Access HTML back into Notes Rich Text. 3. Export a collection of Notes documents, which include Notes Rich Text fields, to an Excel file .. where the Notes Rich Text becomes RTF. 4.These same Notes documents ... let people create and edit them on the web. With a specific font, font size, and other font attributes like bold ... oh, and 4 of those on each Notes document. Now, normally this would be a nightmare. Charles

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Beverly Hills 90210: Season #3 Big Love: Season #2 Bourne Ultimatum, The (HD-DVD/DVD) (#12 in the DVDPS Top 40) Bourne Ultimatum, The (Widescreen) (#1 in the DVDPS Top 40) Dirt: Season #1 Flight 29 Down: Season #1 Frasier: Season #10 Frasier: The Complete Series Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.: Season #3 Harry Potter Limited Edition Giftset: Years 1-5 Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix (2-Disc Edition) (#3 in the DVDPS Top 40) Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix (Widescreen) (#5 in the DVDPS Top 40) High School Musical 2: Extended Edition Inside the Living Body Jason Bourne Collection (#26 in the DVDPS Top 40) Lost: Season #3 (The Unexplored Experience) (#6 in the DVDPS Top 40) Perfect Day, A (2006) Slayers Next: Season #2 Two-Lane Blacktop: Criterion Collection UA Deluxe Gift Set United Artists 90th Anniversary Prestige Collection Walt Disney Treasures: Chronological Donald Duck, The: Volume 3 (1947-1950) Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyla

Man, just reading that headline makes me feel old ... Doomworld has a mini celebration going on. I so want to go kick some Cacodemon butt tonight.

Not much more to say than we miss you. Everyone blast (not play) some Pantera today.

Check these out ... the days of Ranger One machine done in Quake 1 have come a long way. Impressive stuff over at LitFuse Films.

The movie I am waiting most for right now ...

Man, I so love this video ... I have been thinking about how the Web 2.0 world seems just like the first technology bubble ... people doing lots of stuff (much of it cool) that makes zero profit for anyone but the advertisers. And that model is never sustainable for the mass. Make sure your not eating or drinking anything when you watch this.

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 24: Season #6 (#6 in the DVDPS Top 40) 30 Days: Season #2 7th Heaven: Season #5 Battlestar Galactica: Razor: Unrated Director's Cut (#1 in the DVDPS Top 40) Becoming John Ford Best Of Crank Yankers Bob Hope: MGM Movie Legends Collection Daniel Boone: Season #6 Diagnosis Murder: Season #3 Erik The Viking Director's Son's Cut Ford At Fox Collection, The: John Ford's American Comedies Ford At Fox Collection, The: John Ford's Silent Epics Ford At Fox Collection, The: The Essential John Ford Ford At Fox: The Collection Gallagher: Best Of Gallagher #3 Girl Next Door, The (2007) Grafters: Season #2 Grapes Of Wrath, The (1940) Ingmar Bergman: Four Masterworks: Criterion Collection Instant Star: Season #2 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season #4 Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis Mad Max (Decades Collection) New Street Law: Season #1 New York, New York: 30th Anniversary Edition Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End (Blu-Ray

I would like to welcome Suzanne Minassian, Joseph Russo, and David Brooks to the world of IBM Lotus blogs. Synchronous is where you will find information about Lotus Connections and the world of Enterprise Social Networking. I am really happy to welcome these folks to the PSC hosted blogging world. And check out that url ... Synch.rono.us. P.S. Yes, that is the new theme for the IBM Blog that will be shipping in 8.0.1. Bob might have beat us to the punch, but this blog will always be the inspiration. Suzanne wanted to blog externally, but wanted a user interface that resembled Lotus Connections. The PSC blog server, which hosts Ed, Alan, Adam, Rob, and others (including this blog), is a Domino server. Steve Castledine and I talked and he built that wonderful theme. I think people liked it so much it became the new default! Special thanks to Steve for his wonderful work on the 8.0.1 blog template, the theme, and putting up with requests from Suzanne and myself.

How cool is this! Great to see DT getting some good press and advertising ... and looking forward to the content that should be downloadable later today!

Everyone else has reported the news about the acquisition of BE Systems Limited in the UK by Blue Wave Technologies Limited of Ireland. No need to rehash the news .. but I just wanted to send a personal congrats to Paul, Warren, Kitty, and all the rest involved. I have watched them present, attempted to work with them at a user group (damn family emergencies) and enjoyed the after hour events of Lotusphere and other conferences. Our community is blessed to have great people in it. Paul, Warren, and Kitty are 3 of those great people. It is hard to be a small partner in the world of 2007. Lots of people want to be small and have control, but the demand of customers (and working with IBM) makes it hard to be small. You need technology diversity and depth of experts to provide the solutions that customers demand today. When I left Synergistics in 2000, that was the largest company I had ever worked for. They were about 50 people when I left. Boom Vang was 10 when I left them. Artron neve

As a Chicago Bear fan, I love this site. The one shining beacon of hope and enjoyment in this year's Chicago Bears is Devin Hester. Here is a young man in his second year in the NFL. He is 2 touchdowns on a kick-off or punt return to tie the all time record, and 3 from owning it outright. This site is more of a joke than anything .. asking the NFL to penalize teams that do not kick to Devin and other returnmen. I do agree with the premise ... it should be about playing the game ... not finding ways around it. Thanks for making the Bears worth watching this year Devin.

NotesHound, my favorite Third-party tool for the Notes/Domino developer, has just released Version 6 of the tool. Here is the news release: NotesHound version 6 is here !!! After months of hard work we now have version 6 available. As always, existing customers get the upgrade for free. This version really has a lot of nice features, some of which you just can't find in any other tool. The ability to right-click on icons in the Notes client workspace and get a dop-down menu with all the NotesHound tools is, as far as we know, unique to NotesHound. We also have a more 'standard' toolbar icon but with a twist. When you select a Notes database icon in the workspace and click the toolbar icon you get exactly the same drop-down menu as with the right-click feature. As of this version, we have also adjusted our prices to a rather large extent. A Developer license (single user) now costs USD 495 and a Corporate license costs USD 1995. This is a significant raise compared to the

Who would have thought it would turn out this way ... Saturday I decided to say inside, watch the snow turn to freezing rain turn to rain, and just watch college football. Saturday would determine where the Fighting Illini of the University of Illinois ended up for their bowl game. 9 wins and 3 losses was the best turn-around of any team this year ... but probably not good enough for a BCS bid. Ohio State, who the Illini beat when they were #1 in the country, still won the Big 10 conference with only one loss on the year. They got the automatic bid to the BCS and were going to the Rose Bowl. The Illini were destined for the Capital One Bowl Game in Orlando on January 1st. This was perfect for me ... with family in Orlando. I was content. Then Saturday happened. Oklahoma steamrolls over #1 Missouri. #2 West Virginia loses to PITT, who end the year with a losing record. What the $%^&! So, when the BCS cards fell, Ohio State ended up #1 in the polls again and play LSU for the Nati