Welcome to mlife... - only joking.

My life is extremely busy at the moment with one thing and another - and so a few things have had to drop down the priority list. So to be organised (thats a first for me) i've sorted out my priorites and timescales so I get completed what I need and want to do. My first priority has to be my paying clients - some of which have been very understanding and waiting for their work to be done whilst I go through this 'swamped' period - many thanks to you - you know who you are!!

Hopefully in two weeks things will not be so hectic (and I will have a permanent internet connection again) - and then I plan a redesign and rethink of this site - I also want to get back to basics and fill it with useful and unique (note the word unique - getting my claws out - there are a few sites who are just copying and recreating stuff at the moment and claiming it as their own - teach me to share ideas!!) technical information (as I intended this site for) rather than fill this site with rubbish about how busy I am - like you really want to know that i've got blue socks on today!!

I'm very envious of how Mike at notestips.com has a 'blog' layout that contains so many useful info links and keeps the content pretty 'relevant' - I know from experience thats a tough thing to do - and at the moment he probably leads on 'Domino Technical Journalism' (as I would call it). If you venture outside of the Domino blogs - you will find so many blogs out there with very talented 'journalists' that put us 'Dominoes' to shame! - However not to fear us 'Dominoes' will make them sit up when they start blogging using Domino as their tool - some will probably not even notice they are using it - but thats a project which is coming this way soon.

A redesign and rethink will also give me the chance to migrate this site to a proper Domino content management solution based on the dominoblog.com work. Its getting hard work managing this site in DreamWeaver. Its like a bush that I forgot to trim and now has grown out of control!

I'm also working on some really neat software around the 'blog' and 'content management' arena's - can't tell you about them yet as (claws out again) they will be ripped off (i even get sneaky emails from people pretending to be 'normal' - when all they want is more stuff to nick!!). These projects I'm working on really interest and excite me - and that takes a lot (especially when I can feel summer coming with the sun outside and 18 degree c last weekend - can't believe it was struggling to get above zero in what seems only weeks ago - welcome to our weather!!) - exclusive news on those fronts over the next few weeks.

Finally, on top of everything - I also have an openntf.org project coming up that will take 'blog conversation' to another level - you can find details of this here.

I am working through my outstanding emails - If you have emailed me and I have yet to reply - I will very shortly!

Very Soon....

Normal service will be resumed shortly - currently have an extremely busy work period and due to moving house no internet connection for the time being.

Apologies for the emails I am behind on replying to!

At the moment I have an interesting - I wouldn't call it a battle - but more a strategic dilemma going on. Lotus Notes 'Rich Text'. From discussions over the last month or so it seems there is a split between 'users' and 'developers'.

The users seem to 'love' using the Lotus Notes client and its rich text features - 'format and go' which would be the marketing 'tag line' I would use. However the love seems to end there - developers feel it is out of date, pre-web, outside of present standards - so basically don't touch it with a barge pole!

My focus at the moment is getting comments added to the Domino Blog toolkit - and then get this site transfered to it - I've got a lot of good topics to raise - but no platform to use! (I don't like the comments system on this site - and yes I wrote it!!)

There was an interesting thread going on at Notestips.com today - where Mike has added a 'Trackback' web service to his site using a Java Servlet.

I read a funny story the other day - A bar owner in the US has been charged after shooting his laptop computer. George Doughty is said to have fired four bullets into the Dell computer in the middle of his bar and restaurant in Lafayette, Colorado.

Police say he then hung the destroyed machine on the wall like a hunting trophy.

I can quite understand!!

Well back to work today - flu has finally left the building - and am I grateful for that!

Came across a Rich Text bug yesterday which seems to occur in all version of Lotus Notes (5&6) - basically I have a rich text field which I set to 'Store Contents as HTML and MIME'. What I have found is when you save the document containing the field - Notes adds a blank line to the top - on each and every save - so you can imagine what happens when you have saved the document ten times!!

I've always had this 'thing' about using Agents when opening or saving documents on the web. To me the use of a 'WebQueryOpen' agent is a design sin for any web site/application that is planning on having many hits - due to the Agent Manager and the HTTP Domino Stack never (in my opinion/experience) having that good a relationship together.

Still got this 'Flu Bug' - i'm a big girls blouse when it comes to illness - I do not like it one bit!

I have however tried to get some work done - and I can announce that DominoBlog.com is officially launched today - this is running on the ProjectDX.org Domino Blog toolkit.

The site will allow me to concentrate on that project there - and get back to more Domino Technical blogs here (hurrah!).