New Start - Oddlook

This is written with as much bias as you think it needs :)

I'll use my recent change of jobs as an excuse for lack of blog entries.

(I feel it only fair to mention that I’ve been using Notes8 for a year)

Said job change has meant that Outlook has been thrust upon me for the past couple of weeks. Although I now have connectivity to Notes/Domino and i'm a happy bunny once again.
Using Outlook has been a jaw droppingly.....bad experience for me. This is the first end-user experience I've had of Outlook in over six years, I admit it's only the 2003 version but it's pretty lame.
On being informed that I would be using Outlook for email as I waited for my other laptop (connection to the client), I was genuinely saddened.
Some might say that's sad, personally think it shows the level of commitment that Notes/Domino professionals have for the “cause”, Lotus thrives from a community base, without it, where would we be?


That being said, I'm looking for a sponsor for LS09 if anyone is interested? ;)

Lotus Certification

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.


I'm personally only PCLP'd on 5 and 6.x, how many people keep their certs upto date?
I've been looking at doing all of the 8 exams instead of following the update path, think it will give me more in terms of knowledge than the update exams. Seeing as many people are going straight from 6.x to 8 and bypassing version 7, is this is the right approach?

Some time ago a small group of us worked with Barbara Bowen (and crew), to formulate the ND7 Admin update exam, any feedback from those of you who took this would be appreciated, especially if you have followed on and taken the update to 8, did you do it this way because it took less time, or did you not see any value in completing all the exams for that version?

Final question, do you see any value in the certifications at all?

Gripes about Lotus Notes

Stumbled across this today, made me laugh, but more importantly made me think just how far we've come in the past few years....

Toolbars, again...

I've had a few issues with toolbars in the elcipse client, but this takes the biscuit.

From Word (i know, so shoot me), File Send To, Mail Recipient (as Attachment)....

Now I read somewhere that this was fixed in 8.5, but it's been an issue long before 8.0.2 so why no fix now? Combined with my 8.0.2 client hanging over 50% of the time on launch (I did an upgrade, maybe not a great idea) this puts me in a not so great picture for pushing upgrades to customers. At the moment I'd be inclined to say stay away from 8.0.2, it's a shame considering the performance improvements etc, Unless a complete uninstall/re-install fixes both problems?

Airports, waiting, help

Now this is probably my own fault, well ok it is, but anyway !

Two ND health checks completed but now sitting in Glasgow airport waiting another 6 hours before flying, what to do.....?

Do I write up my reports or do I blog, or what?

Any suggestions would be very gratefully received, I will be here for some time either working, waiting or both....... And I might add that moving my flight forward is so stupidly expensive that I just refuse to do it ! (there speaks a spurs fan)

And if my boss reads this, of course i'm working ;-)

Worst MS Bashing ever

so lame, and he missed!

Twitter down :-(

The technical problems with Twitter today made me realise just how much I rely on this to keep upto date with many different things, not only what people are doing but also blogging, and technical updates etc. Just goes to show how quickly in "web 2.0 world" something can take off and become a useful business tool..... Come back online !!!