Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Andy Griffith Show: The Complete Series Charlie & Lola: Volume 4 Closer: Season #2 Ebola Syndrome F-Troop: Season #2 Katharine Hepburn: The Signature Collection Naked Civil Servant, The Rawhide: Season #2: Volume 1 Superman Ultimate Collector's Edition (Re-release) Sylvia Scarlett That Girl: Season #3 True Heart U2: Dublin Undercurrent Wide Awake (2006) Without Love Yu-Gi-Oh Season 5: Dawn Of The Duel: Part 1 Music Double Up ~ R. Kelly Sweet Warrior ~ Richard Thompson Relentless ~ Jason Aldean Humanity Hour, Vol. 1 ~ Scorpions Close as You Get ~ Gary Moore Ultra Payloaded ~ Perry Farrell's Satellite Party Bach: The Goldberg Variations 1955 Performance: Zenph Re-performance ~ Glenn Gould, Bach Rise ~ Herb Alpert Scarred ~ Johnette Napolitano D'Elles ~ Celine Dion More... my pic(s) of the week: A pretty quiet week for releases ... next week will turn it up a bit :) For those interested, I use DVD Price Search for upcoming

Very shortly, Rocky Oliver will be presenting the Notes/Domino and Microsoft Office Integration session at ILUG2007. Rocky has stepped in to help me out since I had to cancel my trip ... Super Duper thanks to him! Here is all the stuff that Rocky is going to show, for your downloading pleasure Presentation PDF Demo Databases As promised, I will work on the Microsoft Project and XML and Excel topics that Rocky had to skip as articles here. I will get those out shortly after Lotus Developer 2007.

The first big content patch for World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is out! The Black Template Patch - 2.1.0 is Live! Lots and lots of content: The Black Temple patch comprises an astounding array of new content and features, making it the single largest addition to World of Warcraft of any patch to date. The most visible of these new offerings is the eponymous Black Temple, home to Illidan the Betrayer and his minions. The foes within its walls offer a new pinnacle of challenges - and rewards - to dedicated 25-person raid groups. This patch also includes a host of solo and small-group content, with several new quest hubs and associated reputations, each with their own rewards - one of which is the new Netherdrake epic flying mount! In the Black Temple patch you will also find a new arena, Ruins of Lordaeron, as well as access to the new druid epic flight form. Hundreds of balance and bug fixes, including class, item, and profession changes, have also been introduced with the p

It is hard to believe, but the movie that changed everything is 30 years old this week. Star Wars (well, to use the official name now Star Wars Episode 4 - A New Hope) is more than one movie. It is a saga. A movement. A mark on the culture of today. Star Wars was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. My dad took me ... and I believe I had to make him stay so we could see it again because I needed to leave to use the rest-room the first time. I was 2.5 ... give me a break :-). For someone who is almost 33, I do not remember a time without Star Wars. I remember my dad letting me stay home so we could see the first showing of Return of the Jedi. Going opening night to see the 20th Anniversary Edition of Star Wars. Waiting for hours and hours to just get tickets for The Phantom Menace. Watching Star Wars on On TV .. the first time it was on TV .. with my friend Tommy and his family the Bennetts and my dad buying one of the first VCRs available. The Star Wars Holiday Special. The Ew

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 40 Year Old Virgin (2-Disc SE) Airwolf: Season #3 Apocalypto Avatar: The Last Airbender: Book 2: Earth: Vol. 3 Battle For Iwo Jima, The: 5-Disc Commemorative Collector's Edition Bi Chun Mu: Dance With Sword: The Complete Series Chisum Cowboys, The (1972): Deluxe Edition Dragon Ball Z: Season #2 Epic Movie (Unrated) Films Of Faith Collection: Volume 2 Flags Of Our Fathers (2-Disc SE) From Russia With Love Gary Cooper: MGM Movie Legends Collection Hero High: The Complete Series Instant Star: Season #1 John Wayne Adventure Collection John Wayne Century Collection John Wayne Collection The: Volume 1 John Wayne Collection, The: DVD Gift Set John Wayne Film Collection John Wayne Western Collection Kitchen Confidential: The Complete Series Kyle XY: Season #1 Legend of the Dragon: Season #1 Legends of Jazz With Ramsey Lewis: Season #1 Letters From Iwo Jima: SE Living Daylights, The Magnificent Seven: Season #2 Man With The Golden Gun, The Marines

I would like to take a moment and thank Rocky Oliver, our communities Lotus Geek, for stepping in to present my session on Friday afternoon at ILUG2007. Rocky and I have co presented on this subject a couple times. If I could ask for anyone to fill in my shoes, Rock is the man. Due to a couple of limitations (like the version of Microsoft Office he has installed), he will not be showing two of the demos in the presentation. The Microsoft Project and XML and Excel demos will be skipped. What I will do for those users is to write blog articles about each one after the Lotus Developer 2007 seminar. This way you will still get the info. If anyone is at the session, please make sure to pass that information along. Also, on Friday I will post the slides and demo file. Thanks again Rocky ... I owe you one!

Blizzard announced a new game today, and as many predicted, it is Starcraft2. One of the most popular computer games of all time (it has sold over 9 million copies, with 4 million of those in Korea alone), many fans have been awaiting this game for a long time. I know that I still play the game and the expansion, Brood War, with friends on-line. One of the first games to take Real-Time Strategy and mix a complex story and 3 different races to play, Starcraft2 looks to continue in the vein. From what I can read, this does not look like a revolution but a continuation. No mixture of Massive On-line play like World of Warcraft. This is a continuation of the story and themes. Don't get me wrong, that's amazing ... I just thought Blizzard would use some of that WoW money to innovate. It looks amazing. Check it out at the Starcraft2 home page.

Well, the news is leaking, so I figured I better announce this myself. I will not be attending ILUG2007 next week as planned. A family member is going to need surgery next week that can not wait. Today was spent at the doctors ... dealing with insurance and all that stuff. The surgery is serious but not an emergency, so it has to be scheduled. It can also not wait until I get back. As much as this trip was something I wanted to do, family comes first. I was really looking forward to ILUG ... my first trip to Ireland and I was also going to Malta to visit the Integra folks for some hands-on training. :( :( :( There is always ILUG 2008. The good news is that it looks like my presentation is going to happen. For once, I was prepared and had my slides and demo done. We are going to go over things this weekend and I will let you all know Monday. Special thanks to Paul and John and Denis of Integra for understanding. I hope everyone has fun next week!

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Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Army Of Shadows: Criterion Collection Coach: Season #2 Curse Of The Zodiac Denzel Washington Spotlight Collection Duplicity (2004) ER: Season #7 Fountain, The (Widescreen) (#13 in the DVDPS Top 40) Frasier: Season #9 Frontline: News War: Complete Series Home Improvement: Season #6 Mash: Goodbye Farewell And Amen Masters Of Horror: Right To Die Michael J. Fox Comedy Favorites Collection Monarch Of The Glen: Series #6 Pan's Labyrinth (#7 in the DVDPS Top 40) Pan's Labyrinth: SE (#9 in the DVDPS Top 40) Pup Named Scooby Doo #6 Red Green Show: 1998 Season Robson Arms: Season #1 Rockford Files: Season #4 Scorsese: SE Collection Seraphim Falls Siege, The: The Martial Law Edition Stomp the Yard (Widescreen) TV Guide Presents: Banacek: Season #1 Tex Avery's Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection Tom and Jerry Tales Vol. 2 Tsunami: The Aftermath Vengeance Is Mine: Criterion Collection Wanted: Dead Or Alive: Season #1 Wanted: Dead Or Alive: Season #

So last week, my Dell desktop decided to die. The machine I played all of World of Warcraft on ... the hard drives went boom. I called Dell, and because of some case damage, they decided to do a system replacement. When I opened the box on Thursday, I did not have the same machine. It was a newer version of the Dell Dimension XPS line. Here are the two machines: Dell Dimension XPS Gen 3 Dell Dimension XPS 710 Processor PROCESSOR, 80547, PENTIUM 4 PRESCOTT DT, Pentium 4 Prescott DT, 3.4GHZ, 1 MEGB, 800FSB, SKT-T PROCESSOR, 6600, 2.4, 4M, CORE DUO-CONROE, BURN 2 RAM 2 X DUAL IN-LINE MEMORY MODULE, 1G, 533M, 128X64, 8, 240, 2RX8 2 DUAL IN-LINE MEMORY MODULE, 2G, 667M, 128X64, 8, 240, 2RX8 Hard Drive (s) 2 X HARD DRIVE, 250GB, Serial ATA, 8MB, WD-XL80-2 (RAID 0) 2 X HARD DRIVE, 500GB, S2, 10K, 16M, BRP, WD-ODY (RAID 0) Video Card CARD (CIRCUIT), GRAPHICS, 256, X800, ATI GRAPHICS CARD, UHMGA11 CARD (CIRCUIT), GRAPHICS, UHMGA16, 768MB, DIMENSION, 2 nVidia Geforce 8800

With the release of Systematic Chaos just 3 weeks away, quite a bit of info about the album is being made available. I, your friendly DT fan, have collected it in one spot for you! :-) DREAM THEATER will be IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guests on Saturday, May 26 during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio show, aptly named "Rock Show". Listen to the program live via the Internet between 9:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. (midnight) U.K. time (between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. EST) at BBC.co.uk. A DREAM THEATER EPK (Electronic Press Kit) for the group's new album, "Systematic Chaos", is available. A new track, entitled "Constant Motion", is available for free here. Simply fill in your details and the download link will be sent directly to your e-mail. A video interview with DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy, capured by The Mirror during Mike's recent promotional visit to Germany, has been posted online at YouTube. A nine-minute video clip shot during the the recording of the DREAM TH

I got this from Eric Carter's .NET4Office blog. Watch the video here to see some of what is coming with the new release of Visual Studio.NET (codenamed "Orcas") and what Visual Studio Tools for Office will be like once it is built into the IDE. Cool stuff in the future for all of us Office developers.

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 4400, The: Season #3 Adventures of the Black Stallion: Season #2 Because I Said So (Widescreen) Big: Director's Cut Boogie Nights: SE Bridge On River Kwai, The: Collector's Edition Cagney & Lacey: Season #1 Caine Mutiny, The: Collector's Edition Catch And Release Clatterford: Season #1 Daniel Boone: Season #3 Deliver Us From Evil Dirty Dancing: 20th Anniversary Edition Donnie Brasco: Extended Cut Everybody Loves Raymond: Season #8 Fur: An Imaginary Portrait Of Diane Arbus Guns Of Navarone: Collector's Edition Jason Of Star Command: The Complete Series John Wayne Action 4pk Collection John Wayne Western 4pk Collection Lawrence Of Arabia: Collector's Edition McLeod's Daughters: Season #2 Mission Magic: The Complete Series Mrs. Doubtfire: Behind The Seams Edition Music And Lyrics (Widescreen) Painted Veil, The (2006) Pirates of the Golden Age Movie Collection Revenge (1990) (Director's Cut) That '70s Show: Season #6 That Thing You Do!: Di

The folks over at Integra have put together some great demos on how Integra for Notes works and what you can do with the product. I get asked quite often about the capabilities of the product and why did I and PSC pick to endorse and sell Integra. These give just a glimpse into the decision If you see me speak at ILUG or Lotus Developer 2007, those reasons will become more obvious. I plan on blogging about Integra much more as we get closer to those events. For now, enjoy these demos: Short Demo End-User perspective. How to Time - Link - Launch Reports (SmartIcon - no design changes) 1.02 Click here Launch Reports with Action Button 1.08 Click here "Send Customer Statement" - Example Report / Workflow - New 1.17 Click here "Make Quotation" - Example Report / Workflow - New 0.59 Click here Create Ad-Hoc reports (With Integra Quick Reports) 2.57 Click here Create Ad-Hoc reports (With Integra Quick Reports via Web) 2.23 Click here Do a Mail Merge, on-the-fly

Hope everyone had a great weekend. Anyone do anything fun? Sarah and I went to BeerFest 2007 Chicago. Picture this ... a big convention space with over 40 beer makers and distributors servering great beer with a band and lots of people. Like a couple thousand. We had a blast. Sleeping until 10 AM is a great way to start Sunday!

By looking at the location, you should see that I am not in Chicago. Some thoughts about my trip: This is my first time in New York City proper in many years ... this city just drips of energy I had a chance to walk up Madison Ave and down Park Ave ... I never had done that and always wanted to. Lots of window shopping :-) Can you believe how small a world it is? Walking up Madison Ave, out steps Jamie Maggie from a cab. He was going to meet a client. We chatted a bit about life, Lotus Developer 2007 / Admin 2007 and Advisor. Good to see you Jamie! I am starting a new project here in NYC. I expect to have more PSC folks joining me. This one should be fun ... lots of fun and fancy Domino web stuff This project is a direct result of the hosting that PSC does for IBM blogs. I am sure Ed loves to hear about that! People who only see me at conferences would be as surprised as Jamie was today ... I am really Mr Suit outside of the speaking circuit The weather is beautiful! I need to blog m

One of the best board games of all time, Settlers of Catan, is finally coming to electronic play via XBox Live! Big Huge Games has taken the killer board game created by Klaus Teuber and made a killer on-line version, Catan. You can play with up to 4 people, including over XBox Live. Here is what the game looks like: I can not wait to play this. I hope it does well ... I would love to see some of the expansions added in the future. Here comes on-line play and some achievements! You can purchase it for 800 XBox points ($10). Here is a great interview with BHG as well.

Here is what's coming out today ... Movies Alpha Dog (Widescreen) Beverly Hills 90210: Season #2 Captain From Castile Clint Eastwood: Western Icon Collection Def Poetry: Season #5 Dreamgirls (2006) (2-Disc SE) El: The Complete Series Films Of Alejandro Jodorwsky, The Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own Fletch: The Jane Doe Edition Gangs Of The Dead Girls Next Door, The: Season #2 Happily N'Ever After (Widescreen) Hitcher, The (2007) (Widescreen) King Of Queens, The: Season #8 Melrose Place: Season #2 Officer And A Gentleman, An: Collector's Edition Richard Gere Collection: Triple Feature Sandlot 3, The: Heading Home Three's Company: Capturing The Laughter: Janet's Favorites Tyrone Power: Swashbuckler Boxset Van Damme Collector's Set What I Like About You: Season #1 Who The #$&% Is Jackson Pollock Will & Grace: Season #6[ Complete List Of Titles Being Released on 05/01/07 ] Music Call Me Irresponsible ~ Michael Bublé Snakes & Arrows ~ Rush The Reminder

Microsoft has put together a great site called Defy All Challenges. It is a Microsoft Visual Studio site, covering Vista, 2007 Office System, Web Development, and the Visual Studio Team System. But what makes it unique is that the whole site is based around games. You will find famous Microsoft game properties (both for the PC and XBOX/360) including the most famous, Halo. Lots of videos, information, and even your own machinima tool. Well worth a check out. Source: Denis @ Integra