Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Charmed: Season #4 Dog Day Afternoon: SE Drew Carey: TV Favorites Ellen: Season #3 Ice Harvest (Widescreen) (#31 in the DVDPS Top 40) Kind Hearts And Coronets: Criterion Collection Lady & The Tramp (2-Disc SE) (#7 in the DVDPS Top 40) Lawless Years, The: Season #1 Metropolitan: Criterion Collection Network: SE (#33 in the DVDPS Top 40) NewsRadio: Season #3 Night Court: TV Favorites Pride & Prejudice (2005 / Widescreen) Prime (Widescreen) Visitation, The Walk The Line (2-Disc Collector's Edition) (#5 in the DVDPS Top 40) Walk The Line (Widescreen) (#13 in the DVDPS Top 40) Welcome Back Kotter: TV Favorites Where The Truth Lies (Un-Rated) Yours, Mine & Ours (Widescreen / SE) Music Precious Memories Alan Jackson Hammersmith Odeon London '75 Bruce Springsteen In My Own Words Ne-Yo Live Trucker [Explicit Lyrics] [Live] Kid Rock The Believer Rhett Miller Out of the Ashe

I am hosting a topic forum over at LotusUserGroup.org this week on Microsoft Integration: Notes/Domino integration with Microsoft Office - moderated week of February 27, 2006 The two companies may compete, but you and your users need these applications to work together. This week feel free to ask questions about the built-in Microsoft Office integration with Notes and Domino, as well as programmability options and techniques. Feel free to join me over there and ask questions!

Imagine playing any game on this ... or mutliple screens for Notes, Domino Designer, and the Admin client! The downside: requires 3 dual input DVI video cards and a machine that can take them ...

So Ed was talking smack about how too much of the Show-N-Tell stuff last week was technical. So I decided to take him up on his challenge and talk about a client that lives and breathes Notes. College Bowl Company, Inc. produces and manages the content used by various programs dubbed "The Varsity Sport of the Mind." Think Jeopardy for high school and college students. College Bowl was started in 1953, and since then, they have branched out to multiple brands. The staff at College Bowl is responsible for creating, editing and organizing all the content and the tournaments. College Bowl runs very lean - under 10 full time employees. They rely on volunteers to help run the tournaments and review the content. The journey to move the content process from a typewriter, copy machine, and FedEx envelopes to a electronic content system has taken YEARS. We started out with an Ami Pro stylesheet to just create the content. So we replaced the typewriter there. A first at

For those that do not like the big desktops, here comes the latest and greatest in the portable pc. and check out those specs: The XPC X100 is pitched at a new era of home entertainment computers based on Windows XP Media Center Edition. A typical spec, said Shuttle, is a 1.83GHz Core Duo T2400 processor; 512MB of dual-channel DDR 2 SDRAM; ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics on an MXM module so it's upgradeable; 250GB Serial ATA II hard drive; HD Audio; Gigabit Ethernet; 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi; four-in-one memory card reader; one front- and three rear-mounted USB 2.0 ports; DVI, TV-out and S/P DIF ports; and a six-pin Firewire connector. The box contains a 120W fanless power supply unit. All of that in a case that is 5.4cm high and the size of an A4 piece of paper! I want I want I want I want I want I want I want!

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 3rd Rock From The Sun: Season #3 Action: Complete Series All The President's Men: SE Domino (Widescreen) (#37 in the DVDPS Top 40) Erik The Viking (Director's Cut) First Descent (2005) Monty Python & The Holy Grail Extraordinarily (Deluxe Edition) NYPD Blue: Season #3 North Country (Widescreen) (#39 in the DVDPS Top 40) Redwall: Season #1 Rent (SE / Widescreen) (#35 in the DVDPS Top 40) Stuart Little 3: Call Of The Wild Ultimate Avengers: The Movie Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: Season #1: Volume 1 Weather Man, The (Widescreen) Music Whatever People Say I Am Thats What I Am Not Arctic Monkeys Other People's Lives Ray Davies Kidz Bop 9 Kidz Bop Kids Keys to the World [Import] Richard Ashcroft Songlines The Derek Trucks Band Country Serenity Phil Coulter Separate Ways Teddy Thompson Everytime We Touch Cascada Coltrane Live in Paris John Coltrane The Day the Rive

It amazes me how many people play World of Warcraft. Over 5.5 million subscribers world wide. That is ACTIVE subscribers. Not only is that a lot of money (figure approximately 12 bucks per month for the North American subscribers), but people everywhere play this game. This article on News.com entitled "Power lunching with Wizards and Warriors" shows how far the game has spread. In fairness, the six-month-old guild isn't just for rich folks. There are plenty of bartenders and regular workaday types in the group as well. But what sets "We Know" apart is its concentration of movers and shakers in the technology world. The guild includes Ross Mayfield, CEO of SocialText; Sean Bonner, who runs the Metroblogging network and who is a popular blogger in his own right; John Crain, the chief technology officer of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); and Diego Rodriguez, a product developer at Ideo, a well-known design company. The article goes on to t

Today Microsoft announced that Office 12 was a code name. 2007 Microsoft Office System is the official name to the upgrade to Microsoft Office System 2003. First, some resources for you: The Press Release 2007 Microsoft Office System Packaging Fact Sheet 2007 Microsoft Office System Pricing Fact Sheet 2007 Microsoft Office System for Business Intelligence Fact Sheet Q&A: Microsoft Unveils Next Generation of Web Authoring and Design Tools Now some comments: Frontpage is Dead (Yes, I read the support until 2008). Say hello to Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer 2007 and Microsoft Expression Web Designer. They have split out the functionality. It makes sense from a function stand point, but just means we have two tools to install and use We now have 7 Office "Suites" or packages, 15 Office Applications, 5 Office Servers, 2 Office CALs (Client Access Licenses), 3 Web Access applications, 3 Office Services, and 4 System solutions. Wow. that is a lot to

For many years, I have been showing a very simple technique to close an Office document opened programmatically. For example: Set hwd = CreateObject("Word.Application")Call hwd.documents.open (documentpathandfilename) 'do something to the word document here hwd.ActiveDocument.SaveAs (windowstemppath + attachmentfilename + extension)hwd.ActiveDocument.Close hwd.Quit For some reason, Office 2003 Applications do not like this. I have seen errors and crashing using just the ActiveDocument.Close. Here is a way to prevent any issues: Set hwd = CreateObject("Word.Application")Call hwd.documents.open (documentpathandfilename) 'do something to the word document here hwd.ActiveDocument.SaveAs (windowstemppath + attachmentfilename + extension)Call hwd.documents(documentfilename).close(0,1) hwd.Quit A very simple change to one line of the code. Instead of relying on the ActiveDocument property, we are closing the document directly. Hope this helps some of you out there

Last night, one of my favorite actors of all time, Andreas Katsulas passed away. Many knew him as the one-armed bad guy Frederick Sykes in The Fugitive. Or the terrorist El Sayed Jaffa in Executive Decision. He is also known for playing many roles on the Star Trek TV shows. I think the role he will be remembered for will always be that of G'Kar, the Narn ambassador on Babylon 5. He had such a presence on screen. J. Michael Straczynski remembers him here: Just over a year ago, Andreas Katsulas -- who loved smoking with a passion that cannot be described -- was diagnosed with lung cancer, which by then had already spread to other areas. He quit smoking at once and went on a healthy diet and vitamin program, but there was little hope of a good resolution even though the new regimen was very good for him. When we spoke about it, he laughed, and said, "Now that I'm dying I've never felt better!" His spirits were always up and positive, putting everyone at ease about his

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Andy Griffith Show: Season #5 Art 21: Seasons #1-#2 Ballykissangel: Series #4 Charles In Charge: Season #1 Domino (Widescreen) (#9 in the DVDPS Top 40) Fresh Prince Of Bel Air: Season #3 Gimme A Break!: Season #1 Golden Girls, The: Season #4 Goof Troop #1 Grey's Anatomy: Season #1 He-Man Season 1 v2 La Bete HusideWine: Criterion Collection Living Single: Season #1 Newsroom: Season #2 Overhaulin: Season #2 Pretender: Season #3 Proof (2005) Rurouni Kenshin TV Series: Season #3 Saw II (Widescreen) (#36 in the DVDPS Top 40) Viridiana: Criterion Collection Who's That Girl? Young Mr. Lincoln: Criterion Collection Zathura: SE (#15 in the DVDPS Top 40) Music Timeless Sergio Mendes 9th Ward Pickin' Parlor Shawn Mullins Falling in Between [Import] Toto Ghetto Classics [Explicit Lyrics] Jaheim I Am the Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey Various Artists A Tribute to Nicolette Larso

Since moving to reading most of my web content via RSS thru FeedDemon, I rarely go to webpages any more. One of the sites I still go to is Shacknews.com. A great site for gaming stuff, the community has really grown. I get all my gaming news plus lots of other wacky content from there. This is one of those items. The Escapist is a webzine (or on-line magazine for the N00bs) that has a great self-description: The Escapistcovers gaming and gamer culture with a progressive editorial style, with articles and columns by the top writers in and outside of the industry. A weekly publication, its magazine-style updates offer content for a mature audience of gamers, entertainment enthusiasts, industry insiders, and other "NetSet" readers. Each issue, The Escapist explores a central theme. Tuesday's main publish addresses head-on the topics relevant to gamers, while the weekend extra, Casual Friday, explores the lighter side of these heavy issues. Combining print-quality writin

You would have to be under a rock to not know about the pending May 19th release of The Da Vinci Code movie. Based on the best seller by Dan Browne, the book has stirred more controversy the I can even list. At the heard of the story is a tale of deception that has gone on for more than 2000 years. The book is a work of fiction, but the author mixed in facts to blur the lines. Sony, the movie company backing the making of the movie, has to know that a whirlwind is coming. There will be protests, editorials, and denouncing by the Catholics and Christians of the world. So what did they do? They put up two web sites for the movie, not one. The first is www.thedavincicodemovie.com. It has the trailer, the characters, and more ... everything we expect from a fancy movie site. But it also created The Da Vinci Challenge. This site is dedicated to giving a voice to the people who want to debate the story line. The Da Vinci Challenge offers a thoughtful and faithful response

I am leaving Kansas City today after a full week of Domino.Doc goodness. I love seeing Domino.Doc put to good use, especially with a focused team, proper configuration, and a good amount of training and documentation. It is the only way for Domino.Doc to be successful. I leave KC with a greater appreciation for BBQ (yum, baby back ribs), the flu going around hotels, and the number 600. I can only imagine how much "600" gets use over the next couple of week. :)

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 13 Going On 30: Fun And Flirty Edition Andy Colby's Incredibly Awesome Adventure! Audrey Hepburn Collection, The Bambi II Batman, The: Season #1 Blue Collar TV: Season 1 v2 Breakfast At Tiffany's (Anniversary Edition) Cary Grant (5-Disc Box Set) Cleopatra (2-Disc) Doom (Widescreen / Un-Rated) Elizabethtown (Widescreen) Emergency!: Season #2 French Connection (Collector's Edition) Grounded For Life: Season #1 Growing Pains: Season #1 Just Like Heaven (Widescreen) MASH (Collectors Edition) Moonlighting: Season #3 Net 2.0, The Private Lessons (25th Anniversay Edition) Richard Pryor Collection, The Ryan's Daughter: SE Sean Connery Collection Soupy Sales Collection (3-Disc) Steve Martin Comedy Collection Survivor: Pearl Islands Panama: Complete Season Teen Titans: Season #1 Touched By An Angel: Season #3 v1 Unbearable Lightness of Being, The: SE (#27 in the DVDPS Top 40) Waiting (Un-Rated / Widescreen) Wallace