by Chris Miller at 09:42:53 AM on Friday, April 28th, 2006
I posted this issue a couple days ago and a wonderful person was kind enough to already get a SPR entered for it under SPR # SBUH6P9PJF
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by Chris Miller at 05:56:00 AM on Thursday, April 27th, 2006
I thought maybe it was a review of the new Outlook 12, but it was simply some opinion of their switch to Thunderbird and IMAP. Now the comments on Lotus Notes caught my eye though.
Later they go into calendaring, which then leads me to believe that they don't do any. If Thunderbird has local calendaring and there is no proper backend, where does the ease of using such an application come into play? How hard was Lotus Notes for them that they could not master that? Yet they state right above at how easy it was to get your mail anywhere? What could possibly be excruciatingly hard to achieve? Why was the remote access so hard, maybe it was your network there? I wish they had made some comments around that. Better yet, maybe we can comment back. (registration was free on the site).
Until recently, we used Lotus Notes in the PC Advisor offices. It's not the nicest of programs to use by any stretch, and some things can be excruciatingly hard to achieve, but one thing it did well was providing access to your mail wherever you were.
All messages were stored on the server until you chose to archive or delete them. On each computer you used to access your inbox, you could choose to view the messages on the server directly - fine if you're on the office network, not so good over the internet - or synchronize a copy on your system with the server.
Later they go into calendaring, which then leads me to believe that they don't do any. If Thunderbird has local calendaring and there is no proper backend, where does the ease of using such an application come into play? How hard was Lotus Notes for them that they could not master that? Yet they state right above at how easy it was to get your mail anywhere? What could possibly be excruciatingly hard to achieve? Why was the remote access so hard, maybe it was your network there? I wish they had made some comments around that. Better yet, maybe we can comment back. (registration was free on the site).
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by Chris Miller at 05:32:00 AM on Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
- More users means more capacity means happier people
- DB2 Express included
- Workplace Designer included
- Domino 7 support
- Exchange 2003 support who cares hahaha
- Upgrade tools for 2.5 versions
- Pricing and licensing looks the same
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by Chris Miller at 02:09:40 PM on Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
GCN: Microsoft sounds like it is doing everything it can to lure all remaining Lotus Notes users to Exchange. How does that make you feel?
Ozzie: Although I've got very warm feelings for the product, the team that built it, the partners who built business around it, and the customers invested in it, Notes was designed at its core for an earlier era. Today there is a far greater set of choices, and in some cases, a far more appropriate set of choices.
Notes was designed for the world of the early '90's - a "re-engineering the corporation" era where the mandate was to utilize technology to share information across departments within an enterprise or government organization.
This comes from an article you can find right here that came out on Apr 24 2006. He was asked later in the article about choosing between Lotus and Exchange and was honest enough to say that it would not be easy or sometimes feasible to migrate applications to Exchange. So why the change, well the article was to be on Groove in more ways than not. But the interviewer took the Lotus approach right out of the starting blocks to stir some controversy. There you go, consider it stirred.
There is always choices in everything you do. I honestly don't find that Lotus is the right answer, but I haven't found Microsoft to be the one either in those. How could Groove benefit from integration with Sharepoint? Not sure, but he states it. Synchronizing seamlessly? I think Lotus does that, quite well with compression, encryption and grabbing smaller documents first so you can start acting and working right away. Need to get a doc to everyone? Upload it once and send a doclink, don't pass the whole do around everywhere. Sounds like a terrible waste of bandwidth and time. Need the data via the web, no need for alternate server. Need secure email, no need for alternate server, HTTP, IMAP or native NRPC. Need a swift kick in the ass for having to deploy 64-bit architecture on Windows only?
Oops that is tomorrows posting I have queued up.
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by Chris Miller at 01:37:18 PM on Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
I got this posted in my comments but not attached to any certain document asking for help. The error is self explanatory in many ways. Whatever certificate you are trying to update is not issued in a date after the one already in place for the user or server so it is being rejected.
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by Chris Miller at 09:52:39 AM on Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
I downloaded this for the first time to play around and see if it could help. The interface moved a little slow on my test machine, but that is to be expected. A lot of Java on Eclipse technology was at work. The interface did the same searches I usually do right in the databases themselves, like Knowledgebase. It was able to grab from numerous sources, just like you can do from the homepage of Notes.Net.
I could not get any login in the world to work for creating Electronic Service Tickets, but I leave that to my mistake in not knowing if my IBM id is registered to do so.
The only thing I liked so far was the Collector task that ran, including the ability to create remote collectors. I went through the Updater to load any product tools for remote collection and found that Notes/Domino 6 and 7 were both there. Unfortunately Sametime was labeled at V3 only. Not sure if that carries forward. A restart of the Assistant was required after installing the tools, no biggie. But then I could not get any tools to load from them after install. Just the homepages and some tech info for each product.
The local system collection jumped a jar file somewhere on the operating system. I wish I could specify or open it from the collection screen. Unfortunately it just gives the path to where it is, which you have to remember. If you change screens and come back it resets the screen I found.
I might play around some more, but I am guessing that NSD, Automatic Diagnostic Collection and Fault Analyzer will get all this and more in the Lotus world.
I could not get any login in the world to work for creating Electronic Service Tickets, but I leave that to my mistake in not knowing if my IBM id is registered to do so.
The only thing I liked so far was the Collector task that ran, including the ability to create remote collectors. I went through the Updater to load any product tools for remote collection and found that Notes/Domino 6 and 7 were both there. Unfortunately Sametime was labeled at V3 only. Not sure if that carries forward. A restart of the Assistant was required after installing the tools, no biggie. But then I could not get any tools to load from them after install. Just the homepages and some tech info for each product.
The local system collection jumped a jar file somewhere on the operating system. I wish I could specify or open it from the collection screen. Unfortunately it just gives the path to where it is, which you have to remember. If you change screens and come back it resets the screen I found.
I might play around some more, but I am guessing that NSD, Automatic Diagnostic Collection and Fault Analyzer will get all this and more in the Lotus world.
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by Chris Miller at 02:56:19 PM on Friday, April 21st, 2006
| Well of course it does not work without a policy. It is stored under the policy name in the local address book ($Policies) view and in a field of the desktop settings called DCLoc. If you have no policy, even manually running the nsenddiag executable would have no routing information assigned to it. So no policy, no way to change an ini variable to send the diagnostics anyway that I can find at this point. |
So I generated a quick policy, ran ndyncfg to update the local client config and then ran nsenddiag to get the crash information over to the Fault Analyzer database on the server to see what was wrong.
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by Chris Miller at 02:40:00 PM on Friday, April 21st, 2006
Not sure why, not sure how, not sure of anything but the instance of this lovely graphic at this point.
by Chris Miller at 02:52:52 PM on Thursday, April 20th, 2006
You can find the full posting right here. I read it through twice and we talked a few on IM. I promised I would post some of my own thoughts on the matter. I saw a couple other bloggers chime in on the comments area of the posting.
I am starting from inside his rant area
I know Lotus is working hard to control more area via policies, but take a step back and look. Policies were a major change for Domino 6, undoing years or local client ini settings and management. Functionality and features are way beyond what policies are currently. DCC was introduced in R5 behind the scenes for simple location document changes. I see policies being stronger towards Hannover and Domino 8. Saying that, there are areas in policy control Lotus should have entered at the same time features get rolled out. But look at DCC and Sametime. The ability to natively (without coding a subform on a policy) change and set the home Sametime server, did not appear until 6.5.4. Yet, integration took place in 6.5.
Now Nathan goes on to another point that makes perfect sense:
Lotus jumped right into more menu items in 7 with further right-click menu options for Sametime. You can find almost everything in an Action menu, button, right-click or Smarticon. There are menu items that Mary Beth is brining up (like Quote Selection) that I had forgotten about entirely! So cleaning up the menu choices would be a nice thing. Mainly if it could be controlled via policies.
However, to keep this short. The type of granularity needed would be hard to manage. Most enterprises do not want to entertain explicit policies just to have some menu item function. So finding the balance on what the user needs/wants/finds are all different. They need reply and with history and without attachment. Should that be admin decided? I say no. Some say yes to reduce message sizes. But with the new better mail threading and showing of threads in a message, keeping history is a key thing.
So where does that leave us? I fully believe in shrinking many menu items. I fully believe that Mary Beth is attempting that in some of the questions she is asking. I fully believe that we won't get a lite or stripped client to keep up with functionality.
Official statements on Sametime 7.5 controls and policies are needed as well as any greater policy control in Hannover. My bet is that it is not finalized, so they won't make statements since something might not make it.
I am starting from inside his rant area
Static interfaces are yesterday's news. I want the ability to turn EVERYTHING on and off. I want the ability to alter every single menu item on the screen. I want control of everything in the bookmark bar. I want to be able to set mail preferences that completely hide entire functionality sets
I know Lotus is working hard to control more area via policies, but take a step back and look. Policies were a major change for Domino 6, undoing years or local client ini settings and management. Functionality and features are way beyond what policies are currently. DCC was introduced in R5 behind the scenes for simple location document changes. I see policies being stronger towards Hannover and Domino 8. Saying that, there are areas in policy control Lotus should have entered at the same time features get rolled out. But look at DCC and Sametime. The ability to natively (without coding a subform on a policy) change and set the home Sametime server, did not appear until 6.5.4. Yet, integration took place in 6.5.
Now Nathan goes on to another point that makes perfect sense:
GUI design 101 says that users get confused when presented with more than 7 options in a list. The context (right-click) menu in my Notes inbox has 27 choices! TWENTY SEVEN!!!! It fills the screen in 800x600 resolution! The inbox has 9 action buttons across the top and 18 items in the Actions menu! How do you digest that? I've been writing software for this platform for almost 15 years, and I get lost in my own email!
Lotus jumped right into more menu items in 7 with further right-click menu options for Sametime. You can find almost everything in an Action menu, button, right-click or Smarticon. There are menu items that Mary Beth is brining up (like Quote Selection) that I had forgotten about entirely! So cleaning up the menu choices would be a nice thing. Mainly if it could be controlled via policies.
However, to keep this short. The type of granularity needed would be hard to manage. Most enterprises do not want to entertain explicit policies just to have some menu item function. So finding the balance on what the user needs/wants/finds are all different. They need reply and with history and without attachment. Should that be admin decided? I say no. Some say yes to reduce message sizes. But with the new better mail threading and showing of threads in a message, keeping history is a key thing.
So where does that leave us? I fully believe in shrinking many menu items. I fully believe that Mary Beth is attempting that in some of the questions she is asking. I fully believe that we won't get a lite or stripped client to keep up with functionality.
Official statements on Sametime 7.5 controls and policies are needed as well as any greater policy control in Hannover. My bet is that it is not finalized, so they won't make statements since something might not make it.
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by Chris Miller at 11:49:49 AM on Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
I was reading an article on a new project (yes announced a month ago) that Ray and Microsoft threw together. This comes with the announcements of all the Live! product announcements.
I love the idea of moving and copying web data objects without losing where it came from. But does this allow content to be shown as someone else's with no proper credit? Can you simply use these to glue things together? They state they have enough interest that a draft specification has been tossed together too. So this moves beyond taking web text like I do for the posting here and referencing it, it moves into meshing that data with my own and making it part of my entry. While maintaining the link and integrity of the original posting.
Myself not being a developer, I read this with a different twist. Some read it as a way to move data easier and bring systems together, I see it as a way for someone to grab your stuff, mark it up some and make it their own while still pointing to you and your resources serving it up. I might have to reword that. Here is Ray's comments from his own blog entry:
Where's the user model that would enable a user to copy and paste structured information from a website to an application running on a PC or another kind of device, or vice-versa?
And finally, where's the user model that would enable a user to 'wire the web', by enabling publish-and-subscribe scenarios web-to-web, or web-to-PC?
On Ray's blog he states there is good threads and feedback, but you still can't comment back on his directly, bummer.
Live Clipboard uses a simple metaphor, the Windows Clipboard, to let users copy and paste live information - for example, another user's calendar - from one site to another without losing the link to its data source. The clipboard uses Real Simple Syndication (RSS) and the Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) to handle data feeds.
I love the idea of moving and copying web data objects without losing where it came from. But does this allow content to be shown as someone else's with no proper credit? Can you simply use these to glue things together? They state they have enough interest that a draft specification has been tossed together too. So this moves beyond taking web text like I do for the posting here and referencing it, it moves into meshing that data with my own and making it part of my entry. While maintaining the link and integrity of the original posting.
Myself not being a developer, I read this with a different twist. Some read it as a way to move data easier and bring systems together, I see it as a way for someone to grab your stuff, mark it up some and make it their own while still pointing to you and your resources serving it up. I might have to reword that. Here is Ray's comments from his own blog entry:
Where's the user model that would enable a user to copy and paste structured information from one website to another?
Where's the user model that would enable a user to copy and paste structured information from a website to an application running on a PC or another kind of device, or vice-versa?
And finally, where's the user model that would enable a user to 'wire the web', by enabling publish-and-subscribe scenarios web-to-web, or web-to-PC?
On Ray's blog he states there is good threads and feedback, but you still can't comment back on his directly, bummer.
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by Chris Miller at 01:41:10 PM on Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
You can find, read, digest and comment on it over here.
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by Chris Miller at 10:38:42 AM on Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
If you have not seen them yet, you can also get grandfathered in if you took any of them from the Domino 6 series.
According to the company, electives for the IBM Certified Advanced Application Developer track will be:
- LotusScript exam
- JavaScript exam
- Web Services exam
- Managing Domino Web Servers exam
- Sametime 7.5
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by Chris Miller at 06:00:00 AM on Friday, April 14th, 2006
I speak highly of Remote Server Setup. I have even found how it does partitions and an undocumented tip on how to adjust the port if there is firewall issues. This was a new one I found today.
I was setting up a 6.5.4 server and turned on the listener for the remote setup. I then went to my local 7.0.1 client and started the remote setup client. Part of the way through I noticed that while customizing the server tasks, there was some 7.x info in there. Specifically the RnRMgr came to notice in the list. I left it checked for grins figuring it would have no bearing.
I was wrong. It actually did add it to the notes.ini servertasks= line and attempted to start the task when the server first launched. No big deal, it simply said it could not find the task and went on it's way. But I am thinking this is not a good thing overall. I will search some docs and see if I can find it. But no luck so far.
I was setting up a 6.5.4 server and turned on the listener for the remote setup. I then went to my local 7.0.1 client and started the remote setup client. Part of the way through I noticed that while customizing the server tasks, there was some 7.x info in there. Specifically the RnRMgr came to notice in the list. I left it checked for grins figuring it would have no bearing.
I was wrong. It actually did add it to the notes.ini servertasks= line and attempted to start the task when the server first launched. No big deal, it simply said it could not find the task and went on it's way. But I am thinking this is not a good thing overall. I will search some docs and see if I can find it. But no luck so far.
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by Chris Miller at 01:53:50 PM on Thursday, April 13th, 2006
From the Bas himself: Court: Coke should have warned of fizziness (scrolling down to e-journal no. 31151, and clicking on the Full Text Opinion link):
So have we finally hit the wall people? A grown ass woman does not know that a can of soda (carbonated water, syrup, some coloring and sweeteners of some kind) could possibly come shooting out. I am guessing she never drank soda in her life, never had seen one explode before and apparently beer doesn't fit in either. or champagne or any other beverage that uses any form of carbonation. She probably follows along the lines that flavored water is still water. No it is now a soft drink once you change it from water (to quote George Carlin).
Whew, so be prepared for more printing on the cans. And close your eyes when you open one apparently. She is stating that it burned her eyes some and gave her SLK and dry eyes. I am thinking very wet eyes personally that tingle :-)
Although the Court rejected the theory that the can was defective, it found that the company could be held liable for failing to warn consumers that "the beverage might exit the can at a high velocity upon opening." Expect to see a lot more language on your coke cans in the future.
So have we finally hit the wall people? A grown ass woman does not know that a can of soda (carbonated water, syrup, some coloring and sweeteners of some kind) could possibly come shooting out. I am guessing she never drank soda in her life, never had seen one explode before and apparently beer doesn't fit in either. or champagne or any other beverage that uses any form of carbonation. She probably follows along the lines that flavored water is still water. No it is now a soft drink once you change it from water (to quote George Carlin).
Whew, so be prepared for more printing on the cans. And close your eyes when you open one apparently. She is stating that it burned her eyes some and gave her SLK and dry eyes. I am thinking very wet eyes personally that tingle :-)
by Chris Miller at 09:35:06 AM on Thursday, April 13th, 2006
1) I was reading this article on how some love their music and other abhor music in the workplace. The argument goes both ways. The pros say it enhances their productivity, brings them up and drowns out office noise. The cons say it bothers them, hampers productivity and distracts.
Personally I love my music on my PC and also on my iPod when wandering around. Those of you that see me at conferences know I wear it all the time. When doing projects I play music to match the mood I need to be in. Even a tiny video playing in the corner of the screen never hurts. But now that can be distracting.
Personally I love my music on my PC and also on my iPod when wandering around. Those of you that see me at conferences know I wear it all the time. When doing projects I play music to match the mood I need to be in. Even a tiny video playing in the corner of the screen never hurts. But now that can be distracting.
by Chris Miller at 09:17:32 AM on Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
From Computerworld NZ comes the following:
Now we all know Notes does not just delete your invitations. You have a thing called Preferences for what you want to do with them. It is called workflow and removing clutter from your inbox. If I respond to an invite, why wouldn't I want it to add it to my calendar, let the chairman know and then remove it from my inbox in one click? Do I need a mail message in my inbox to remind me of a calendar entry I already responded to? Oh wait, they discover their complaint later in the article:
Mac does agree that this might not be the most intuitive place to oput such an option, and that few people need to have it switched off in the first place. He also, quite pleasantly, points out that Notes is designed with security rather than openness in mind. He's also offered Notes counseling should it all get too much for us again.
So we know he is referring to user preferences in the mailfile (I had to shrink down the text). After some careful searching, I found out the origination of his complaint. He had not turned the preference either way, and the admins did not set any policies to help, so everytime he deleted it from his inbox it removed the entry.
See Notes is a mail-based calendaring product. Which makes it work so wonderfully well. It took time for some other vendors to catch up in being able to send invites over the Internet. A little training and exploration goes a long way in a mail client that you have been using for quite soime time from reading back.
As for the statement that Notes is based on security rather than openness has nothing to do with his issue. Nor is it a point to address in this posting. Security and how a calendar invite is handled have no bearing on each other. Sorry you are secure, let me do exactly what I told you to do in preferences? Huh?
Last week we detailed our problems with invitations and Notes propensity for deleting them inappropriately. It seems we're not alone in our loathing.
Now we all know Notes does not just delete your invitations. You have a thing called Preferences for what you want to do with them. It is called workflow and removing clutter from your inbox. If I respond to an invite, why wouldn't I want it to add it to my calendar, let the chairman know and then remove it from my inbox in one click? Do I need a mail message in my inbox to remind me of a calendar entry I already responded to? Oh wait, they discover their complaint later in the article:
However, another E-Taler, Mac this time, says our invitation problem occurs somewhere between the desk chair and the keyboard. But he's put us right.
Mac does agree that this might not be the most intuitive place to oput such an option, and that few people need to have it switched off in the first place. He also, quite pleasantly, points out that Notes is designed with security rather than openness in mind. He's also offered Notes counseling should it all get too much for us again.
So we know he is referring to user preferences in the mailfile (I had to shrink down the text). After some careful searching, I found out the origination of his complaint. He had not turned the preference either way, and the admins did not set any policies to help, so everytime he deleted it from his inbox it removed the entry.
See Notes is a mail-based calendaring product. Which makes it work so wonderfully well. It took time for some other vendors to catch up in being able to send invites over the Internet. A little training and exploration goes a long way in a mail client that you have been using for quite soime time from reading back.
As for the statement that Notes is based on security rather than openness has nothing to do with his issue. Nor is it a point to address in this posting. Security and how a calendar invite is handled have no bearing on each other. Sorry you are secure, let me do exactly what I told you to do in preferences? Huh?
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by Chris Miller at 11:27:21 AM on Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
enough said...ugh
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by Chris Miller at 10:13:41 AM on Thursday, April 6th, 2006
This (thank goodness) was not a huge set of slides, but covered some important information (thanks to Alan for pointing out this was one I missed). So here is what I thought about the slides:
There is more to read below!!!!!!
Continue Reading here" Reviewing the 4/4/06 TechTalk on Upcoming IBM Lotus Domino Features and Futures" »
- I liked the fact that Hannover will be supported for SmartUpgrade. Of course, I have to ask why it wouldn't be, but I like that.
- Suranas (as in Super User Run As) is coming faster than I thought so you can deploy seamless upgrades with the users not having administrator access to their machine. Some little slide noted that it might be a separate download sooner than full rollout.
- 64 bit. Yes, but 32 bit under 64 at first to set the doorway to buy 64 bit based hardware for future releases.
- Resilient threaded views - hot damn. If you are like me I don't keep all the mail from a thread around. It is clutter as much of the material is replied with history again and again. Resilient threaded views takes care of this issue. I am certainly looking forward to some better productivity here.
- Policies to continue on to Hannover and provisioning for Workplace? I love this but have one giant question. Can we fix everything about policies first before adding in a whole new product line? Serious
- Portals, portlets, cutlets, pork choplets. Merge, grind and make a pate' I say. Portal and Domino together? Darn right. No more to say, you knew it was coming
There is more to read below!!!!!!
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by Chris Miller at 09:42:17 AM on Thursday, April 6th, 2006
P.S. I also have inline comments in place now
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by Chris Miller at 01:20:43 PM on Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
Steve jumped in today to fix something I had been asking for. Literally 8 seconds for him then replication. Missing hair for me. Thanks Steve (I hear they shave you entirely when you join IBM, be careful)
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by Chris Miller at 10:02:30 AM on Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
- Customer embraces Lotus technology
- Customer expands SMTP services with Domino
- Customer believes in workflow
- Customer enables server based rules
- Customer enables a lot of server based rules
- Customer finds all rules not working
- I find a whole lot of rules in the server configuration
- I find more than 100
- I have light bulb in head
- I add notes.ini parameter to server MailMaxFilters= xx
- I warn customer of performance issues with that setting
- I bill customer :-)
- We are all happy
by Chris Miller at 09:25:51 AM on Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
As Ed pointed out, and Steve Castledine let
loose himself, the creator of my blog template (DominoBlog)
has been assimilated by IBM. That means the blog template that they
promised to put into Domino natively will be something I have years of
experience with. From a tiny template that did awesome things, to
a full blown enterprise blogging interface in the recent 3.0 release.
So send congrats to Steve on his announcement posting.
So send congrats to Steve on his announcement posting.
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by Chris Miller at 07:01:00 PM on Saturday, April 1st, 2006
You can find the slide sets on Flickr right here or on Yahoo! right here (same set, take your pick).
So the day started with a great buffet (free) breakfast up on the top floor of the hotel. I was tempted to jump on one of the tours to go and see things, but my body said take a nap. Which lasted until almost 3pm. So heading downstairs I asked the concierge to provide me with a city map and a route to see sites that are not taken everyday. With a smile he drew (I darkened the ink line for the picture so you could see it in the slides) a nice long walk around numerous museums, small park areas and just different styles of neighborhoods. The walk took me hours, with some brief stops included to get away from sudden rain. So I covered a bunch of ground and took pictures of names of places to help.
1. Past the main train station that I came from the airport on. Only 3 stops form the airport to the hotel stop in 15 minutes. Cheaper and more direct that a cab.
2. Past the Tivoli which does not open until Apr 12 with a new ride. I can right into it form my hotel window so I did not miss much except the excitement of the name and saying I had been there.
3. A turn off of Bernstorffsgade onto Tietgensgade took me to the Glyptoteket. Luckily the museum was normally free on Wed and Sundays, but since they had construction on some parts it was free today too. I was able to see some of it. The cafe in there I found in quite a few magazines. It looked awesome and the acoustics of the dome and arboretum made conversations from a few feet away impossible to even hear. Kind of spooky, but cool.
4. A turn on HC Anderson Boulevard and again on Ny Kengensgade took me to a complex of large buildings around a small park area. I took some great pictures there. The whole area on the map looks like Christiansborg but there was some smaller signs for the park area. Also inside was the Danish Jewish Museum. Very modern design as you can tell by their sign.
5. Out through another side of the park and I hit Christians Brygge which runs along the channel. I followed that up and over Knoppelsbro bridge into the "hippie area" I was told, called Christianshavn. Reminds me of our Central West End area in St Louis, or even The Loop around Delmar.
6. Down Torvegade and then a big square around some side streets looking for the church, Vor Frelsers Kirke, that had this gold spire that you can walk up (150 steps on the outside, 250 inside to get up there) I could see in the distance when crossing the bridge. I found a great sushi place called Sushi Saiko on the main road. I found the spire around Overgaden oven and Annae Gade area and took some pictures there of the spire and church. The church was open for only another 10 minutes by the time I had found it
7. Back across the bridge, around the National Bank and on to Kongens Nytorv via Holmens Kanal.
8. I suddenly realized where I was from walking around that area for dinner the past two nights. So I jumped on to the main roadway through the central shopping district. (it has like 3 names along the way on the same pedestrian street). Some shopping, poking into side walkways and streets that I had not seen yet and back to the hotel
I came back to download pictures, dry off myself and some clothes, a cup of Cacao Fantasy and then thought about heading off to dinner. No destination, just heading. I found out that the Copenhagen Night Film Festival runs through this weekend with 165 films (there is an English link in the top middle of page). I am trying to find a place to see what movie is here before I grab some food. This movie looked too good to pass up in my quick searches and on-line recommendations. I found that two of the theaters are within 2 blocks of the hotel.
Late dinner was found at Indian Taj Restaurant, right near the hotel. Quite good food and the waiter suggested the chef's private recipe for hot coconut chicken. Not a disappointment. A nice walk to wear myself out for the flights home to get back on schedule. I don't plan on sleeping tongiht, but on the London-Boston flight instead.
So the day started with a great buffet (free) breakfast up on the top floor of the hotel. I was tempted to jump on one of the tours to go and see things, but my body said take a nap. Which lasted until almost 3pm. So heading downstairs I asked the concierge to provide me with a city map and a route to see sites that are not taken everyday. With a smile he drew (I darkened the ink line for the picture so you could see it in the slides) a nice long walk around numerous museums, small park areas and just different styles of neighborhoods. The walk took me hours, with some brief stops included to get away from sudden rain. So I covered a bunch of ground and took pictures of names of places to help.
1. Past the main train station that I came from the airport on. Only 3 stops form the airport to the hotel stop in 15 minutes. Cheaper and more direct that a cab.
2. Past the Tivoli which does not open until Apr 12 with a new ride. I can right into it form my hotel window so I did not miss much except the excitement of the name and saying I had been there.
3. A turn off of Bernstorffsgade onto Tietgensgade took me to the Glyptoteket. Luckily the museum was normally free on Wed and Sundays, but since they had construction on some parts it was free today too. I was able to see some of it. The cafe in there I found in quite a few magazines. It looked awesome and the acoustics of the dome and arboretum made conversations from a few feet away impossible to even hear. Kind of spooky, but cool.
4. A turn on HC Anderson Boulevard and again on Ny Kengensgade took me to a complex of large buildings around a small park area. I took some great pictures there. The whole area on the map looks like Christiansborg but there was some smaller signs for the park area. Also inside was the Danish Jewish Museum. Very modern design as you can tell by their sign.
5. Out through another side of the park and I hit Christians Brygge which runs along the channel. I followed that up and over Knoppelsbro bridge into the "hippie area" I was told, called Christianshavn. Reminds me of our Central West End area in St Louis, or even The Loop around Delmar.
6. Down Torvegade and then a big square around some side streets looking for the church, Vor Frelsers Kirke, that had this gold spire that you can walk up (150 steps on the outside, 250 inside to get up there) I could see in the distance when crossing the bridge. I found a great sushi place called Sushi Saiko on the main road. I found the spire around Overgaden oven and Annae Gade area and took some pictures there of the spire and church. The church was open for only another 10 minutes by the time I had found it
7. Back across the bridge, around the National Bank and on to Kongens Nytorv via Holmens Kanal.
8. I suddenly realized where I was from walking around that area for dinner the past two nights. So I jumped on to the main roadway through the central shopping district. (it has like 3 names along the way on the same pedestrian street). Some shopping, poking into side walkways and streets that I had not seen yet and back to the hotel
I came back to download pictures, dry off myself and some clothes, a cup of Cacao Fantasy and then thought about heading off to dinner. No destination, just heading. I found out that the Copenhagen Night Film Festival runs through this weekend with 165 films (there is an English link in the top middle of page). I am trying to find a place to see what movie is here before I grab some food. This movie looked too good to pass up in my quick searches and on-line recommendations. I found that two of the theaters are within 2 blocks of the hotel.
Late dinner was found at Indian Taj Restaurant, right near the hotel. Quite good food and the waiter suggested the chef's private recipe for hot coconut chicken. Not a disappointment. A nice walk to wear myself out for the flights home to get back on schedule. I don't plan on sleeping tongiht, but on the London-Boston flight instead.
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Yes this is a blatant theft of the outline that Jess uses on her page, but I asked permission. Why?? Because I am a hardcore admin and can make ugly tables to make you developers frustrated, but this was too nice to pass up.
Also Known As: Chris Miller (when awake)
Boring Certifications: (only because someone asked twice)
- Domino 7 Certified Security Administrator
- PCLP ND8
- PCLP ND7
- PCLP ND6
- PCLP R5
- PCLP R4
- Workplace Collaboration Services 2.5 - Team Collab and Messaging (retired)
- CLP Collaboration (soon to be retired Aug 2006)
- random former R4 exams
- CLI for numerous admin areas including Domino, Sametime and Workplace
- CLP Insane
Yes, I write some of those dreaded admin cert exams you take. I won't say which ones so you don't come looking for me, but I will say they are the real good recent ones that have been coming out.
Weapons/Equipment:
- At work an IBM thing
- At home a plethera of 6 machines with various Windows versions and Red Hat on a wired/wireless LAN
- A Wii
- An 8830 Blackberry
- A Toshiba E740 with 802.11b (yes geek toy)
- An Apple 40GB iPod that is filled to the brim
- I cannot even list all of the items I carry I found
- Compaq RioPort MP3 player (now in storage)
- An EBook (REB1100) also for travel (Love that darn thing)
- Verizon and they always seem to know how to find me, damn cell
Animals:
One dog, a Puggle. He eats anything that includes stuffing. Anything
Music:
Non-stop. At my desk, in my car, walking to work and back to my car downtown. In the house there is a crazy zoned set-up for you home automation geeks.
I am a self-proclaimed MP3 fiend, to which I have tried rehab 4 billion times to no avail. Next is the MP3 hard-drive for the car that I found. Now what kind of music you ask? I will never tell.
Languages:
- Incredibly fast English
- Very slow Spanish
- Emoticon-ese
- Learning Korean
- HTML
- Advanced Sarcasm
Geek class special abilities:
- Notes/Domino overdrive
- Workplace
- Sametime
- Active Directory (huh? kidding)
- Quickplace
- LMS, LVC and the other L's of elearning
- Windoze junk
- MS Exchange versions
- LAN
- TCPIP
- Server Iron
- Yeah, yeah it goes on some
Skills:
Get back to you here
Spells:
Hershey’s Stomach of Holding: Jess and I are fighting over who eats more chocolate.
Character Bio:
This will take far more time than I have today. I will start with I was born and still live in St. Louis, MO. Even though for a couple years I was never, ever here and always on the road, this is smack in the middle of the US. Everything is just a few hour flight. That part is nice. No beach/ocean/coast isn't the best. But with the travel I make up for it.
Looking to find me in person? Here is where I am and will be.
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