Here is what's coming out today ... Movies $100 Taxi Ride: Season #1 Baghead Black Lagoon: Season #1 Comedy Central Roast Of Bob Saget: Uncensored Dogs On Board: Season #1 Greek: Chapter Two Hellbound: Hellraiser II: 20th Anniversary Edition Kyle XY: Season #2: Revelations National Lampoon's Stoned Age: Unrated PSI Factor: Season #3 Resident Evil: Degeneration (Blu-Ray) (#22 in the DVDPS Top 40) Resident Evil: Degeneration Secret Life Of The American Teenager, The: Season #1 Serenity (Blu-Ray) (#10 in the DVDPS Top 40) This Small Space: Season #1 To Kill A Mockingbird: Collector's Edition Towelhead Tudors, The: Season #2 Computer Game Pirates: Duel on the high Seas ( Nintendo DS) 8 Ball All Stars ( Nintendo DS) Hurry Up Hedgehog! ( Nintendo DS) The Tale of Despereaux ( Windows Vista / XP) Insecticide ( Windows Vista / XP) Music Circus (International Edition) ~ Take That It's a Vinyl World After All ~ Michael Fremer His Band and the Street Choir[180g Vinyl LP

The 2009 Edition of the Lotus Awards were announced today and PSC won for the Best Philanthropy Solution! Here is a brief overview of the winning solution: Africa Challenge S.A. (ACSA), has joined with Zain, Africa’s most successful pan-African mobile network, to create the Zain Africa Challenge (ZAC). ZAC, the first-ever televised academic competition among students at African universities across the continent, is a major undertaking for ACSA. The Zain Africa Challenge (ZAC) is an event that celebrates higher education in the continent of Africa. ZAC unites students and creates a forum for like-minded individuals and educators to meet and collaborate. A great benefit of the ZAC is the social networking that begins as students from many nations intermix and compete. These future leaders come to respect peers from neighboring countries that have often had poor relations. The leaders are learning the value of networking, education, and collaboration. The collaboration tools of Note

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies American Dragster: Season #2 American Gladiators Fitness: #1 Black Lagoon: Season #1 Cheetah Girls, The: One World Crime 360: Season #1 Dirty Dancing: Official Dance Workout Gene Simmons Family Jewels: Season #3 History Channel: Gangland: Season #2 Ice Road Truckers: Season #2 Jurassic Fight Club: Season #1 Little Mermaid II, The: Return To The Sea: SE Little Mermaid Trilogy Gift Set Mamma Mia! (SE) Mummy Trilogy, The Mummy: Tomb Of Dragon Emperor: SE Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom Petticoat Junction: Season #1 Pirates Of The Caribbean Trilogy Transformers: Energon: The Ultimate Collection Wild Country Computer Games Rise of the Argonauts ( Xbox 360) Rock Band 2 Single Cymbal Expansion Kit ( Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, PLAYSTATION 3) PlayStation 3 Wireless keypad ( PLAYSTATION 3) Rise of the Argonauts ( PLAYSTATION 3) Rock Band 2 Single Cymbal Expansion Kit ( Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, PLAYSTATION 3) PS3/PS2 Logitech Wireless Guit

There has been a bunch of chatter over at Ed Brill 's blog about Google Apps SLA and some comments I wanted to pick out. First, we have Volker Weber 's comment vowe.net does not get over three nines every month of the year, edbrill.com definitely not. and then we have Ed following up to that Vowe.net and edbrill.com are not "mission-critical" mail servers, and in my case I certainly wouldn't ask PSC to run it on a UPS, cluster the server to a remote site, etc. The interjection of their uptime is irrelevant. There seems to be some big misconceptions about the blog server PSC hosts and I wanted to correct those. Now I know PSC was not the focus of this discussion (the general uptime of the Domino server seems to be), but I wanted to clarify what is reality for edbrill.com, the other blogs we host (including this one), and the IdeaJam.net server. PSC has a dedicated server for the blogs that we host. It is a nice Dell PowerEdge server with dual quad-core processors and 4 gigs of ram. No

PSC and Integra are pleased to be sponsoring a virtual user group meeting on Jan 14th, 2009 at 12 PM Eastern Standard Time. The topic is: The Real World of Integration: How Lotus Notes & Domino Can Work with Microsoft Office, Lotus Symphony and the Power of Integra for Notes Welcome to the real world, where Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino are just part of your corporate toolset. This live, online presentation will introduce you to some unique and time saving techniques for the integration of Lotus Notes and Domino with Microsoft Office, .NET technologies, and Lotus Symphony. No matter what version of Notes you're running (even 8.5) all the way back to 6.5, you'll come away with a solid plan for Mail Merge, exporting to a spreadsheet, charting, presentation building, and integration on the Web. You'll learn some advanced topics such as Visual Studio Tools for Office integration with Lotus Domino Web Services. Plus, we'll show you live demos on how to use Notes & Domino 8

Today brings dates, times, and room assignments for most of the Lotusphere 2009 sessions. Here is my speaking schedule: Jumpstart JMP205 - Integration of IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino with Microsoft Office, .NET, and IBM Lotus Symphony Welcome to the real world, where Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino are just part of your corporate toolset. This session will introduce you to integration of Lotus Notes and Domino 8 and 8.5 with Microsoft Office, .NET technologies, OpenOffice.org, and Lotus Symphony. We'll start with the basics and gradually build up to advanced integration. Mail Merge, exporting to a spreadsheet, charting, presentation building, and integration on the Web will all be covered. Advanced topics such as Visual Studio Tools for Office and integration with Lotus Domino Web Services will round out the session. All new samples including integration with XPages will provide samples you can use as soon as you get home. John Head & Alex Kassabov Dolphin Americas Seminar : S

I try not to post political stuff on my blog for many reasons, but after the week we have had here in Illinois, I thought this was mighty appropriate ....

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Dark Knight, The (Blu-Ray) (#1 in the DVDPS Top 40) Dark Knight, The (Widescreen) (#3 in the DVDPS Top 40) Dark Knight, The: SE (#2 in the DVDPS Top 40) Dark Knight, The: Two-Disc Limited Edition (Batpod Case) (Blu-Ray) (#4 in the DVDPS Top 40) Deadwood: The Complete Series Europa: The Criterion Collection Get Smart: The Complete Series Gunsmoke: Season #3: Volume 1 Happy Days: Season #4 Horton Hears A Who (2008): SE I Am Legend: Ultimate Collector's Edition Lost: Season #4: The Expanded Experience (Blu-Ray) (#33 in the DVDPS Top 40) Lost: Season #4: The Expanded Experience (#5 in the DVDPS Top 40) Lyrical Nanoha: The Complete Series McLeod's Daughters: Season #7 Rawhide: Season #3: Volume 2 Sex And The City: The Movie: Ultimate Collector's Edition Swingtown: Season #1 Wire, The: The Complete Series Computer Games Winter Sports 2 The Ultimate Challenge ( Xbox 360) Sonic Unleashed ( PLAYSTATION 3) PlayStation 3 Drum Rocker Premium Dr

How cool! At PSC's holiday party, they have a tradition of giving out awards to folks who went above and beyond during the past year. I won the rainmaking award! What is rainmaking? Rainmaking is not just about sales, but about using your network to generate business and attention for yourself and your company. Sales count, but so does writing, speaking, networking, and other items. There are two great books about rainmaking that I recommend highly: Rain Making: The Professional's Guide to Attracting New Clients & Rainmaking Made Simple. Even Guy Kawasaki has written about rainmaking. A good rainmaker is more than consultant, far more than a good programmer, and does not need to be a salesperson with a quota. I am super proud to win this award. Thanks to the folks at PSC for it! Here are some pics ... sorry they are bad, but it is glass and hard to photograph! Luis won our Clear Vision award and Sri won the Star performance for Africa Challenge .. so the Lotus brand team at P

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Cannon: Season #1: Volume 2 Casablanca: Two-Disc SE Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian Day The Earth Stood Still, The: 2-Disc SE Jake And The Fatman: Season #1: Volume 2 Law & Order: Season #6 Man Called Flintstone, The Maria Watches Over Us: Season #2 Metalocalypse: Season #2 Perry Mason: Season #3: Volume 2 Saturday Night Live: Season #4 Step Brothers: 2-Disc Unrated Story Of Saiunkoku: Season #2 Wanted (Blu-Ray) (#5 in the DVDPS Top 40) Wanted: SE White Dog: The Criterion Collection X-Files, The: I Want To Believe (The Ultimate X-Phile Edition) Computer Games Prince of Persia ( Xbox 360) Destroy All Humans! Path of The Furon ( Xbox 360) Transfer Kit for Xbox 360 ( Xbox 360) Xbox 360 Headset Adapter ( Xbox 360) Prince of Persia ( PLAYSTATION 3) SingStar ABBA (Stand Alone) ( PLAYSTATION 3) Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (PlayStation 3) ( PLAYSTATION 3) Universal Kick Pedal - For RockBand ( Xbox 360,