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This entry by Steve regarding the disablement of font stripping in Dominoblog-based blogs was really a welcome sight.  I had never understood or figured out what settings would allow me to have all my text formatting show up in my entries.  I know it sometimes looks better if everything is uniform and nice and neat, but I'm gonna give this a shot for a while.  I may hate it love it, who knows, but I'm gonna try it.

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:44:00 PM, in  Blogging  | Blog fonts - unshackled | Comments (0)

Please excuse the wackiness and disarray you may see with this site over the next few hours as I attempt to monkey with the design of this blog

Update - ok...that didn't quite go as planned, but I did get one thing thrown in, I just don't have the patience to troubleshoot this tonight...maybe sometime during the week...at least it's a start.

Posted by Phil Randolph at 08:45:00 PM, in  Blogging  | Experimenting with new design | Comments (0)

Sometime either late last night or early this morning, this blog had it's 3000th visitor.

Gee...how much bigger could that number have been if only I'd posted more often?  Oh yeah, and about interesting stuff....and a wider variety of stuff (for all those googlers....)

Depending on how the weekend goes (with Kathy out of town tonight and tomorrow at a MomTime Getaway conference), I'm hoping to make some changes to the design of this blog (mostly to layout, but perhaps some new content too).

Phil's Listening To - Firefly: Old Wounds - Episode #3
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek Enterprise - Last Full Measure" - by Michael A Martin and Andy Mangels

Posted by Phil Randolph at 08:21:00 AM, in  Blogging  | Another visitor milestone | Comments (0)

Man, looking over there on the left at the monthly archive numbers I feel a definite slump occurring, duh!  Granted, Kath and I were on a cruise for a week, then I had my head down in the office catching up, then I was away from the office in Dallas at a conference last week, but still...3 posts (before today) this month?  The trend of diminishing frequency of posts started back mid-year, and I just haven't been able to get back in gear.  

Oh, I know, I can blame it on the NHL hockey season not being in session right?  Wrong...or at least a feeble excuse.  I'm sure frequency will increase a bit with the resumption of regular season NHL, but I really should just post when I have something to say, even if it's not profound or terribly useful, and stop talking myself OUT of posting or thinking "I'll mention something about that later", because later usually never presents itself till its too late...then I missed my inspiration.

So, my bad...I'll try to do better...thanks to those that have stuck around during the lean times!

Phil's Listening To - Slice of Sci-Fi - Episode #74
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek DS9 - Hollow Men" - by Una McCormack

Posted by Phil Randolph at 02:06:00 PM, in  Blogging  | Could I be a bit more lazy with this blog? | Comments (0)

Anyone who wouldn't mind helping me out here, I'm attempting to test out the code that Sean Burgess posted about integrating coComment with DominoBlog sites.

I think I've got it setup correctly...but that's where you come in.

I'm looking for coComments by both coComment registered users and guests...so have at it, specifically on this post...if you don't mind!  Thanks!  And thanks a TON Sean...I've been wanting to do this since I first found out about coComment.

Update - I've taken the coComment code back out until I can devote a little more time to troubleshooting..and maybe discuss with someone who's already done it successfully.  Thanks anyway...I'll tell you when you can help again.

Posted by Phil Randolph at 07:52:54 PM, in  Blogging  | Post to test new coComment integration functionality | Comments (3)

Nothing to see here...please move along...
 ; - )

Posted by Phil Randolph at 08:29:18 PM, in  Blogging  | Pay no attention, just claiming this feed on Bloglines... | Comments (0)

We're going to be in Michigan to celebrate the 4th and my Dad's 76th birthday on the 2nd, so I wanted to get these couple of items up before they are way old news after the weekend:

As multiple sources have reported, Dave Lewis has been hired as the new head coach of the Boston Bruins.  I'm glad for Dave, that he's getting a chance elsewhere as he put so much time in with the Wings as an assistant coach, scout and head coach.  I wish him well, but don't meet up with us in the finals anytime soon!

In some other Hockey related news - as posted by Kukla's, here's a Backyard Zamboni (you don't mind if we clear out some of that landscaping in the backyard do you honey?  Zach will need some place to practice, right?)

And...the Freelance Geek beat me to it, but I'm excited to hear about the upcoming Dragonlance movie, apparently coming in Fall 2007!  I've read that first trilogy of books so many times...it'll be awesome to see them brought to the big screen.

All for now, catch you after the Fourth!

Phil's Listening To - Slice of Sci-Fi #63
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek - Enterprise : Rosetta" - by Dave Stern

Posted by Phil Randolph at 01:31:00 PM, in  Blogging  | Before our little jaunt up north... | Comments (1)

It breaks my heart to hear what's going on with Stan.

I've been helped innumerable times by his posts on LDD/Notes.net, probably more times than I am even aware of, as others have probably based their answers on ones he'd already given many times before.

All over the place (and I'm sure I'll read more today in comments on existing posts and other new posts), our blogger group is stepping up to help him out where we can.  I'm unfortunately not in a position to help out in a financial way, but I can try to take up some of the slack on the forum...so I'm making a committment starting today, to watching for new posts to LDD that I can contribute to, and helping out where I can.

What a great group of people we have, and I know we WILL get Stan back on his feet!

Phil's Listening To - Slice of Sci-Fi #63
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek - Enterprise : Rosetta" - by Dave Stern

Posted by Phil Randolph at 08:11:00 AM, in  Blogging  | Stan Rogers | Comments (0)

This time I was 3 time zones away for the first few days...what'cha gonna do?

Here's a small sample of some good ones from last month:

IRISH SONG SHANNY JIG - You know we love it...just got cut off 3 rounds too early :(

red wings screwed game 6 - Yes, but not necessarily by the opposing team

Jeff Foxworthy's real wife photos' - Someone thinks he has a fake one???  Then "he might be a redneck"

yzerman podcast - Wouldn't that just rock?  A podcast hosted by Stevie, or all about Stevie?

picking up acorns with roller - You mean someone else did something like this, or wants instructions?

photo OR picture OR pic OR gallery kirk maltby - Wow, someone really wanted shots of good 'ole number 18

sites for linz family photos - Are you kidding?  We've been though a whole other Amazing Race since then...come on...

notes for Happy birthday to you - Do people really need the lyrics for "Happy Birthday"?

trophy icon lotus notes - I'd be happy to help design one for use in Hannover, you know, there's this nice shiny metal one that would look really good in ALL my views.

TTOW - BJ and Tyler said it all the time...anyone know what it means?

Phil's Listening To - "Stanley Cup Finals - Game 1" on OLN
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek - SCE #7: Breakdowns" - by Scott Ciencin, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Kevin Dilmore, Heather Jarman and Dayton Ward

Posted by Phil Randolph at 10:14:00 PM, in  Blogging  | May Googles - I know...late again | Comments (0)

I was suprised when I looked at my visitor counter this morning, and saw that it had flipped over 2000!

Personally, I don't think that's too bad, since this site's only been up for less than 8 months.  Also, that only accounts for those coming to the blog, and not those who only get the posts via RSS...

Now...if only I posted more often...right?

Phil's Listening To - Taking Notes Podcast #21 - Bruce Elgort and Julian Robichaux
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek - SCE #7: Breakdowns" - by Scott Ciencin, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Kevin Dilmore, Heather Jarman and Dayton Ward

Posted by Phil Randolph at 10:09:00 AM, in  Blogging  | 2000 Visitors | Comments (0)

Lot's been happening over the last week, therefore the lull in posts...

But...

Today is B'Elanna Jadzia Randolph's (our dog's) 9th birthday.  So she's about to begin picking up social security I recon...that will be a help ;-)  I can't believe I don't have a picture with her in it on Flickr - I'll have to take one and get it up here...

Since the Oilers took out our guys in the 1st round, we feel we have to be pulling for them to keep on truckin' through the rest of the playoffs, so GO OIL!  Could be a sweep of the Conference Final tonight in Edmonton!  Good luck to your guys Al!

In other news, Wings fans can rejoice that Chelli has re-signed for another year.  We are also waiting to find out how much Lidstrom is wanting, whether Shanny wants to return, and whether Yzerman is going to retire or come back to play his 23rd season.  Only time will tell.

Phil's Listening To - Slice of Sci-Fi Episode #57
Phil's Reading - Commercial Driver License Manual

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:04:00 AM, in  Blogging  | Another Birthday, Go Oil, Chelli signed | Comments (0)

I've been wanting to get coComment integrated into my DominoBlog based site.  Others now have that capability when using BlogSphere (if they enable it) but before I do a trial and error sort of thing trying to get it going, has anyone who is using DominoBlog right now gotten coComment integrated?

Phil's Listening To - Firefly Talk Podcast #30
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek - SCE #6: Wildfire"- by Keith R.A. DeCandido, David Mack, J. Steven York & Christina F. York

Posted by Phil Randolph at 08:05:00 AM, in  Blogging  | DominoBlog + coComment | Comments (0)

Sorry it's a few days late...work, home stuff, playoff hockey losses and all that...

Another eclectic set caught my eye:

lucas wolenczak icons - I remember having some icons with Star Trek characters, but never SeaQuest characters
Lotus Notes Developer Detroit - you'd think so, based on all the Wings content...but nope, I'm in Cleveland - like Ben
myspace detroit red wings layouts - there were a ton of these that got people here...I don't recall every saying anything about MySpace...oops, I've done it now...
firefly talk podcast - glad I can be doing my part to get people to Firefly content - Go Browncoats!
steve yzerman wife photo - believe it or not...I think this is the best I can do...I'm just assuming here..gotta be her in the black shirt next to him
Philip Randolph pictures - that would be here...
Phil d.dominodeveloper - so are people trying to access me by propeties or methods now?  And I would think I'd rate at least a "B"
field hockey icon palm - hmm...not sure what this is about...some girl with a short curvy ended stick at a university in the south???
no surrender bruce text notes - any ideas Mr. Elgort?
phil randolph - nice to see that a simple search like that can get you here...and it's #2 currently for that search
creative memories scam - I don't think it's a scam...and Kath's really enjoying be a CM Consultant - hit her 30-60-90 incentive targets!  Go Honey!

Phil's Listening To - "Rock and Roll All Nite" - KISS
Phil's Reading - "Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids" - by Isaac Asimov

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:33:00 PM, in  Blogging  | April Googles | Comments (0)

Just wanted to bring your attention to a new section I've added on my blog navigation side bar...

I've put the set of sites for the podcasts I listen to in their own little container over there on the left.  You've probably seen me mention most or all of them in my little tag lines at the end of my entries, but I thought it would be good to give them a permanent home.

The latest one I got turned on to is Geek Pastor, which was brought to the blogosphere's attention by Kevin Presseault (Domino Preacher).  This is a great mix of geeky kind of topics, books, music, movies, tv, comics, and then also a Christian perspective on everything (since the guy IS a pastor), and he also takes a short time at the end of the cast to do a short devotionally type of thing.  I heartily recommend it, I'm through 8 of 15 episodes he's put out so far.

Phil's Listening To - The Signal, Season 2, Episode #7
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek - Deep Space Nine: Warpath" - by David Mack

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:05:00 AM, in  Blogging  | New Podcasts Section | Comments (1)

Here's this month's set...

funny detroit redwings photos - not sure what's funny about the one's I've displayed...but more GOOD ONES will be coming after next weekend
hockey decorating - we plan on doing some when we can get to it in the playroom/mudroom (all the stuff's up in the garage now)
Detroit Red Wings My Space Layouts - I really hope they are talking about designs for pages, and not something else...
projectdx themes - I'm in the market for some...need to make some kind of design change on the 'ole blog
zach randolph, wife - I bet you want to really get here Mr. Googler...my Zach is only 6!
detroit red wings  font - not sure what it would look like, maybe letters made out of players and their sticks contorting themselves into the shape of letters?
flickr bill buchan - He's right here!
drywall corner beading - yeah, I have to fix some of that after I tried to attach some floor molding pieces today
guy a langlais - wonder what that translates to...assuming it is French???
april 2006 palm sunday coloring contest - sounds like something my kids would be interested in...but not sure how it got you here
orwells animal farm dot points and notes - wow, that's quite an interesting set of seach terms...
Creative Memories April 2006 new product release - it's great that a search like that brought someone here...as it's possible that Kath might get some business out of it! Woo-hoo!

Our Countdown to the Joe - 6 days!

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:10:00 PM, in  Blogging  | March Googles | Comments (1)

Hey all, back from our Southern Ohio travels, and have the new office setup at work.

I've added to new icon rectangles (what do we call those things anyway?) to the left navigation.  They point to my coComments conversations, and an RSS feed of those conversations respectively.

I'm planning on doing a lot more commenting and a lot less lurking on the miriad of blogs I read.   Also hoping to figure out how to incorporate the coComment stuff fully into my comment pages here to make it easier for other coComment users.  Will keep you apprised as to how that's going.

Phil's Listening To - Firefly Talk Podcast Episode #23
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek S.C.E. Book 4: No Surrender" - concept by John J. Ordover and Keith R.A. DeCandido 

Our Countdown to the Joe - 10 days - It's getting close!

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:22:00 AM, in  Blogging  | coComments | Comments (0)

Without a lot of time this week, evidenced by the continued infrequency of entries lately,  I thought I'd just put up some quick tidbits...

• Added Maureen's Blog to the blogroll - thanks to Richard for finding it for us!
• Our dryer has given up the ghost I think, cluncking and grinding and such, eyeing this one right now...
• Kath's business is going like gangbusters.  She's met her 30 and 60 day sales incentive targets and is well on her way to meeting her 90 day target before she's even into that last 30 days.  She has recruited two new consultants and is very excited to get a third and more!  She's got a show at her sister's place in Cinci this weekend, and a side trip over to Chillicothe again to help one of her new consultants do her first show!
• I'm chomping at the bit to get over into my new office, we're moving our group of people for the third time in two years back to our old stomping grounds.  Think I'll head over again to see if they've got everything in place.
• Well, the boys didn't come out on the winning end of the shootout last night, but Pavel gave us another beautiful Datsyukian Deke!  Thanks A2Y and Kukla's
• Last but not least, Chris mentioned Podzinger on his blog today.  Think I'll have to see what kind of results I get for some Red Wings related search terms... Maybe I can satisfy all those googlers who keep looking for Red Wings Podcasts!

Phil's Listening To - Slice of SciFi #49
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek S.C.E. Book 4: No Surrender" - concept by John J. Ordover and Keith R.A. DeCandido 

Our Countdown to the Joe - 16 days!

Posted by Phil Randolph at 10:40:00 AM, in  Blogging  | Tidbits | Comments (4)

Sorry I've been horrible this last week about conversing with you all.  Don't know, nothing really jumped into my mind, and once again I've had my head down and been coding away most days.

Well, you can expect a barrage of stuff today...

What I'm really jazzed about right now, is that I got my ebay purchase of seaQuest DSV - The Complete First Season this week.  I couldn't wait to get my hands on this.   I've been watching parts of episodes on my way to and from work on the bus, and it's all coming back to me now. 

It's kinda nostalgic for me becasue I first watched this series with Kath when we were dating and engaged back in the mid-90s.

Anyway, I just love listening to the theme music and loved watching Captain Bridger being cajoled into taking the ship that he built back over again, bringing his dolphin "Darwin" on board, and Mr. Computer Whiz - Lucas Wolenczak (Jonathan Brandis - RIP) lurking around every corner to save the say in his Wesley Crusher sorta way. 

Ahh....I love it!  Anyone else out there in the blogosphere love that show as much as I did/do?

Phil's Listening To - Angel Child - Al Jolson
Phil's Reading - "I, Robot" - Isaac Asimov

Our Countdown to the Joe - 22 days!

Posted by Phil Randolph at 10:10:00 AM, in  Blogging  | seaQuest | Comments (0)

Alright, with the announcement on Rob's blog today - now LotusRockStar.com, we've got a name change on the left...so long lotusdigerati...

I was the first to pop in with a comment on Rob's introduction post and asked for the icon...and it was delivered. Now it holds a prominent place next to Rocky's LotusGeek one there at the top!  Dang, but they look good together!

Also added Kitty to the ever-lengthening roll...at mrselsmore.com

Phil's Reading - "I, Robot" - Isaac Asimov
Our Countdown to the Joe - 28 days!

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:16:00 PM, in  Blogging  | Changes and nifty icon | Comments (0)

Not wanting to bore you to tears like last month, I'm going to highlight a much
smaller subset of important, interesting, or funny February google searches that reached this site:

Mark Jourdain alternative - Hope that search wasn't done by his wife
ibm, lotus, boxing, gloves - Nice marketing!
ajax jsf sdo - Thus concludes our acronym lesson for today
detroit red wings coloring contest - My kids would probably want to enter that!
web domino view inline editing - Gotta find a place to shoehorn this in somewhere
ibm activity explorer screenshots 2006 - Just get me the real thing, SOON!!!
forum barons de cleveland - wow, looks like a French hit...
steve yzerman family - We'd like to meet em
philip randolphs family - I'd say ya came to the right place
detroit red wings podcast - This has been hanging on here steadily since I started, must really be a need for it!
detroit red wings color scheme 2006 - I'm thinking pretty much red and white...right???
zach randolph's wife picture - What are you a psychic or prophet or something?
best practices - I try to follow them, I really do
hockey string lights - You mean like lights to put up and leave on your house all through hockey season - I'm there!!
Detroit Red Wings Hockey 2005 2006 fans personal stories - Wow, that's a heck of a search string!
tie rod cost pt-cruiser - Not cheap, I'll tell ya!
philippe riand - "Missed it by that much"
hockey birthday parties randolph - It's what he wanted, really...no pressure

Phil's Reading - "Star Trek - Tales From the Captain's Table" - edited by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Posted by Phil Randolph at 10:00:00 PM, in  Blogging  | February Googles | Comments (0)

Been watching it closely for the last couple of days, wondering when it was going to flip. I'm amazed it's come so fast...having only started on November 21st 2005. 

Thanks to all of you for your patronage so far!

I hope my posts are of use or at least interesting to those of you that get here in the various ways, search engine, feed reader, blogrolls, etc...I hope to keep up the pace or even increase it has time goes on.

Phil's Listening To - Slice of Sci-fi Podcast #46
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek - Tales From the Captain's Table" - edited by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Posted by Phil Randolph at 12:31:00 PM, in  Blogging  | 1000 Visitors! | Comments (3)

Found this over on Volker's site, posted by Esther Schindler

And here's my results:

You scored as Serenity (Firefly). You like to live your own way and don't enjoy when anyone but a friend tries to tell you should do different.  Now if only the Reavers would quit trying to skin you. Serenity (Firefly) 94% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 69% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 63% SG-1 (Stargate) 63% Moya (Farscape) 63% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 56% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 50% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 44% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 44% FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 38% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 31% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 25% Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics) created with QuizFarm.com

Phil's Listening To - Taking Notes Podcast #15
Phil's Reading - "Yzerman" - Douglas Hunter

Posted by Phil Randolph at 08:31:00 AM, in  Blogging  | My preferred crew...as I expected | Comments (0)

I'm wondering if it is just Bloglines, or if my feed is malfunctioning for others of you out there using other RSS readers. 

I'm actually having problems with Bloglines trying to get:

Business Controls Caddy, Chris Doig, IBM Eye, Notes Goddess, Phigment Said What?, and my own blog

Some of them get a Not Authorized error, some a does not exist error, and others a forbidden error...

Any help out there? Thanks! ;)

Phil's Listening To - Firefly Talk #18
Phil's Reading - "Yzerman" - Douglas Hunter

Update 2/27: All of these seemed to fix themselves over the weekend, and as that happened I noticed information from Bloglines that they had been monkeying with the editting functions of managing feeds/folders/etc... so who knows?

And of course we got the explanation for Chris' site's unreachability

Posted by Phil Randolph at 03:13:00 PM, in  Blogging  | Anyone else having trouble with multiple feeds? Including mine... | Comments (3)

Well, the week at least...

Gabriella Davis at Turtleweb.com posted this entry that caught my interest.  So I looked into it for myself...

My info -

Birthday (May 10, 1974) - "The Loco-Motion" by Grand Funk

Possible (do I really want to think about this...) conception date (Aug 10, 1973) - "The Morning After" by Maureen McGovern

I don't think I want to touch either of those comment-wise...not a pretty mental picture on either of them...

Phil's Listening To - Olympic Women's Slalom
Phil's Reading - "Titan - Orion's Hounds" by Christopher L. Bennett

Posted by Phil Randolph at 10:08:00 PM, in  Blogging  | On the day I was born...and the day I was...well...’nuff said | Comments (1)

Just like Andy mentions over at his blog, I've sorta been in a slump of sorts too over the last week or so (as is evidenced from my last post being back last Tuesday on Zach's birthday). 

With the Olympics on and not much Wings specific stuff to be had, that isn't grabbing my interest too much right now.  After all the festivities around Zach's birthday, we've been just trying to recover.  Kath of course is launching her new business with Creative Memories and I'm trying to pick up some slack with house stuff and kids stuff so she can devote the time she needs to that.

Did take an advanced Excel class yesterday which was very good, and showed me alot of options that I'd known nothing about as I have not delved very deeply into the advanced functions...I should me more proficient and efficient with that now...hope I can use some of my new tricks!

I do have a set of things queued up to talk about and even have a possible 'show and tell' for tomorrow winding it's way through my brain at the moment.

More later today (and tomorrow)...hopefully!

Phil's Listening To - Firefly Talk #18
Phil's Reading - "Titan - Orion's Hounds" by Christopher L. Bennett

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:06:00 AM, in  Blogging  | Right with you there Andy... | Comments (0)

After walking through the XML in the OPML file on Richard Schwartz's site, I found a whole bunch of new blogs that look interesting...and some that I thought I had on my blogroll already (it's so hard to keep track since it's so long).

Here's the newcomers:

The Sickos - http://www.thesickos.com/
Vision for Hire - http://www.thenorth.com/apblog4.nsf/bloghome
The Jagular - http://www.bhrpconsulting.com/bruceperry/thejagular.nsf
Curt Stone - http://d.dominodeveloper.net/curtstone/home.nsf
Gary Devendorf - http://blog.advisor.com/blog/garydev.nsf
eknori.de - http://www.eknori.de/
IBMeye - http://www.ibmeye.com/
DomBlog.de - http://www.domblog.de/
Kathleen McGivney - http://www.kmnow.com/kmnow/kmnow.nsf
Yellerdog.net - http://www.yellerdog.net/yellerdog/yellerdogblog.nsf
Laurette Rynne - http://www.lauretterynne.com/
lekkimworld - http://blog.lekkim.heisterberg.dk/
Neil Agate's Weblog - http://www.neilagate.com/
Domino Unplugged - http://www.dominounplugged.com/
The Old Git - http://www.royholder.com/
Tim Rynne - http://www.timrynne.com/

Phil's Listening To - Kath doing her first show for Creative Memories
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek S.C.E. Book Three - Some Assembly Required" concept by John J. Ordover and Keith R.A. DeCandido

Posted by Phil Randolph at 07:28:00 PM, in  Blogging  | More blogroll additions | Comments (0)

Wow, did my numbers shoot up last month in terms of page hits, returning visits, RSS hits, and of course Googles...hmm, blog about some interesting people in the community, and voila...

Here's the list that got you to me last month:

Comedian with routine hot pocket - he was funny, but as I said before...wierd...
snappsBP303
Lotusphere and jourdain
marty moore ibm
Maureen leland
using ajax in domino views - yup, I will
ask the developers AND picture AND lotusphere AND 2006
Troy Reimer web services
Domino NAB Open
hot pocket jason alexander - he didn't talk about them, Jim did
domino hitcounter
jsf sdo application examples
red wings rss feeds - I subscribe to a few...
BP303 tips tricks
slides lotusphere 2006 ad101
domino ajax nab lookup (2 variations) - I'll be using that one
paul mooney bill buchan Worst Practices - what an awesome session Bill and Paul did
Bill Buchan Worst Practices
Phil Randolph lotusphere picture - I took a bunch...too many to put on flickr with my limited account - anyone wanna chip in?
Domino Development - that's what I do
detroit red wings funny pictures - maybe the one where Woolley smacks down Hagman
nikopoulos lotusphere 2006 photo
ad202 photo lotusphere
INV302
fieldsettext%28form
lotus notes 7 screenshots - they are up...
keith decandido - I've read alot of his stuff, and he crosses lots of different sci-fi shows
Jessica Stratton admin for developers - awesome session and totally done in the open, no pre-work
maureen leland lotusphere
Lotusphere 2006 comedian - "he's wierd...."
date picker lotus domino
maureen leland, demo - awesome woman, great architect...demo only bombed because of connectivity
domino 6 forum - 7 is in there too now
domino AND tinymce (4 variations)
wild bill domino lotus notes - the kilt, the eyes...feel the burn
notes/domino 4 and 5 - that's where I came in
domino developers blog - yes we do!!!!!! :)
lotusphere 2006 opening session jason alexander - he was funny and unexpected
Detroit wings blog - there's lots of them, some in my blogroll under umm...."Red Wings"
lotusphere 2006 and pics - flickr tag "lotusphere2006"
Workplace 2.6 screenshot - they are out there
domino 8 - you would think so...we'll see
dwight wilbanks - a great guy - and he remembered my blog and my name!
Domino FaceLift Toolkit (3 variations) - I'm all over it, from one of the best sessions at the 'Sphere
what is *.ntf in lotus notes - Huh????
detroit red wing song - I'd like to hear it, anyone write one?
Cleveland Barons Blog - don't think there will ever be one, they are folding at the end of the year and moving
things to know about lotus notes domino - read all of my fellow blogger's sites - and LDD of course
notes notessession closing
the amazing race family edition winners linz
Red wings and there family - Kath is always intersted in that kind of stuff
domino Dbprofile - I use them all the time
notes  domino blog - yah, that's what this is and what it's running
Jiri Fischer - wishing and praying for you Jiri
randolph - that got your here? cool :)
tinymce blank popup
linz family links - see December posts or cbs.com maybe
dominoblog webadmin (2 variations) - I use it when I'm not at home, works great!
lotus notes podcast - Taking Notes is my favorite, anyone know of others out there?
lang_insert_link - how about lang, insert yourself in the defense...
domino rich text field obligatory - obligatory???
Detroit Red Wings Podcast (14 variations) - yeah, I'd really like to find one about them too, this as on last month's list as well
tinymce empty popup - mhm....
tinymce is undefined (3 variations)
tinymce and domino
robert domino red wings
red wings widget (2 variations)
detroitredwings internet radio - AM1270 is where I go if it won't be televised, but I rarely have that problem anymore...
tinymce edit link firefox blank page - someone seems to be having the same issue as me...
zach and katie amazing race - maybe in about 20 years, that would be an interesting team to watch!
lotus notes lowes - wonder if they use it there, anyone know?
linz family pics - wow, there's an old one
Alan  Lepofsky IBM - great tips!
pt cruiser tie rod remove - yup, that's what they had to do...
amazing rac - not touching that one, hope they meant to type "race"

Posted by Phil Randolph at 10:23:00 PM, in  Blogging  | January Googles | Comments (1)

Several more blogs/people have come to my attention during or after the recent festivities in Florida, so the already expansive blogroll keeps on expanding...here's the new additions:

The Pridelands - http://bilykspride.blogspot.com/
Jonesy's Babble - http://dbjones.blogspot.com/
Yellow Is The New Black - http://www.rhs.com/web/blog/thenewblack.nsf
11TMR - http://www.11tmr.com/11tmr.nsf
Notes Goddess - http://www.notesgoddess.net/NotesGoddess/NotesGoddess.nsf
Surjit Chana - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog.jspa?blog€8&ca=drs-bl  

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:30:00 PM, in  Blogging  | Additions to the list | Comments (0)

Should be getting on site about 4-ish. I'll see a bunch of you guys (and gals too) tomorrow night! Can't wait for eveything to get started!

Really looking forward to seeing how the JamFest thing works out.

I also resolve to make a valiant effort to blog at least a summary for each day, if not more, regarding sessions and cool stuff I've seen (and done).

Got the camera software setup last night...so I can point and shoot away! And I'll try to make sure I tag everything correctly guys!!!!!

Phil's Listening To - "The Signal Podcast 17a"
Phil's Reading - "Enterprise - Daedalus" - Dave Stern

Posted by Phil Randolph at 02:19:00 PM, in  Blogging  | Just about time... | Comments (3)

Sorry, I've had my head down the last couple of days and the long MLK weekend, so haven't gotten any entries up.  I do have a backlog, so instead of multiple posts, I'll just throw them all together here.

Had to try that Ego thing....lots of you guys have been doing this, and even though I knew it would be embarrasingly low, I thought I'd try it out now, and then see how it trends after the sphere and as more and more content goes on this site.  So here's my EgoSurf results as of today (1/18):

Searching for phil randolph, looking for links to philrandolph.com & hostit1.connectria.com -
google.com - 1135
msn.com - 746

Been pouring over the sessions database, and have got most all time slots figured out, there is so much good content this year.  Also have pulled down some of the related pdfs (thanks for getting some up early!) So I can annotate if I want.

Next...
I'm going to attempt to blog while at the Sphere this year, and if I can with pics from our new digital camera. Depends on how well the wi-fi holds up to our relentless usage!

And...I guess I might be singing???  Still got to figure out how we will determine who will be doing what song at what time in what order with which other people, and oh yeah, do we know the words???  Should be an interesting time.

Phil's Listening To - "Taking Notes - Episode 9 with Bill Buchan" - Taking Notes Podcast
Phil's Reading - "Enterprise - Daedalus" - Dave Stern

Posted by Phil Randolph at 11:05:00 AM, in  Blogging  | Several things... | Comments (0)

The mailman walked up to the front door with a box in hand and handed it to me...Kath wanted it to be her long-awaited book about Brendan Shanahan, but I aasumed it was my order from just after Christmas...And it was!

It was my new Firefly - The Complete Series and Serenity movie DVD sets.

As you know from my customary tag lines at the bottom of my posts that I've been listening to alot of the podcasts out there that relate to Joss Whedon's Firefly. I couldn't wait to get my hands on the dvd set with the commentaries and unaired episodes and such...

Kath and I popped in the Serenity DVD last night after the Wing's disappointing loss to the Wild (4-2)

On the way to work this morning on the bus, I started on the original pilot episode also named "Serenity", not the episode that fox started their run of the series with, but the episode Joss intended as the pilot. It fun to hear Joss and Nathan Fillion (who played the ship's Captain Mal Reynolds), discuss what went on during the very beginning of the series, over the actual show content.

Anyway, just had to tell ya about it...

Phil's Listening To - "The Signal - Serenity Talk"
Phil's In Between Books at present...

Posted by Phil Randolph at 12:55:00 PM, in  Blogging  | They’ve arrived! | Comments (0)

Ben and Bruce both promoted the new Lotusphere 2006 Wiki that's up and getting chock-full of goodness for our consumption - I'm planning on getting my info in soon.

Chris, my most prolifc commenter, has also put up a Wiki for the JamFest at this year's 'Sphere. I saw some intiguing stuff in there the other day that I may have to apply for, perhaps a vocal quartet or two... But I know I better not try to match my sadly deteriorated drumming skills from high school with any of the big boys that have been keeping there's up over the years.

Phil's Listening To - "The Greatest American Hero" - My TV Themes Playlist
Phil's Reading - "Hockey Gods" - Nicholas J. Cotsonika

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:05:00 AM, in  Blogging  | ’Sphere 06 Wikis | Comments (0)

I'm going to try to remember to list these on a monthly basis...maybe at some point they'll become as interesting as some of yours, based on the widely ranging subjects of posts I put up

Right now they have a fairly similar ring to most of them!

- lotus notes composedocument view backend - that one seems pretty straightfoward, although "view backend" could be taken out of context...
- Detroit red wings theme song  - I'd love to hear it, or even write it!!
- lotusscript link field two databases - yup, good search
- Domino Lotus Notes Podcast - sounds like someone must have found Taking Notes eh???
- passing value from backend to hidden fields .net - how'd .net get in there...oops, I've made it worse...ahhhhh!
- lotus notes picture gallery - actually mine's on flickr, but I'm sure there's something about it in OpenNTF
- detroit red wings all-time stats - well, pretty soon I may know alot of them after I get all these books I got for Christmas from Kath read :)
- theme projectDX - not sure anyone will want this one I'm using, but there are some good ones out there...
- Detroit Red Wings Buzzer - note to self, check for this on shop.nhl.com
- closing a notesSession - umm, is this something you really have to do yourself?
- detroit red wing playlists - if they are looking for what music the wings listen to, I'm sure Kath will go to work on that one for you, especially Shanny's
- the linz family, linz family, linz family.amazing race - gee, someone is persistent - try cbs.com!
- detroit red wings podcast - I've been looking high and low for one specifically devoted to the Wings, and I too have come up short...but I'll keep looking.

Wow, I actually had something remotely usefully or maybe even slightly funny to say about every one of them...miracles do occur!
Here's hoping for a big ramp-up in readership and some more hits to report on next month!

Phil's Listening To - Still Nothin'
Phil's Reading - "Hockey Gods" - Nicholas J. Cotsonika

Posted by Phil Randolph at 10:43:00 PM, in  Blogging  | December Googles | Comments (0)

Duffbert mentioned a guy in his area in one of his blog entries this morning - Jim Anderton and his blog "With a T!"

After following the link and checking out his About page - seems Jim and I have quite a few things in common...

• I'm a dad of two (although mine are a boy and a girl)
  
• Kath and I are active in our church
• I'm in love with my wife too!
  
• Kath is a stay at home mom, who also tries to get out as much as she can
• And this one is just crazy - my son Zachary was born just the day after Jim's son Sam, on Valentine's day - February 14, 2000

I'm also intrigued by the Google Analytics information Jim has shared, and have since gone and signed up to be on the waiting list for new users when they get the load under control.

Phil's Listening To - My son's hotwheels race track cars going round and round the track
Phil's Reading - "Hockey Gods" - Nicholas J. Cotsonika

Posted by Phil Randolph at 08:58:00 AM, in  Blogging  | A newly revealed blogger - and lots in common | Comments (3)

Well, I think the mystery is solved, although I don't really like the verdict...

I went to my webadmin site from my laptop and tried out the tinyMCE functions while not connected to my company's lan, and voila...no issues with the link editor function nor any of the others.

A change must have been made to our company's firewall or something in the last couple of days...

Oh well, I'll have to build my links manually in actual HTML while on my lan...horror of horrors! ;-)

Phil's Listening To - Cartoons my son is watching (working from home - Kath is sick)
Phil's Reading - "Hockey Gods" - Nicholas J. Cotsonika

Posted by Phil Randolph at 07:26:00 AM, in  Blogging  | Firewall seems to be the culprit | Comments (1)

Back at work again, and trying to see if I can get the Insert/edit link widget in the rich text web editor in Dominoblog working again. As I said last night, I was able to use it on my home pc with Firefox. Up until 12/27 (Tuesday) I was working fine from Firefox at work. I've tried both my firefox at work and my IE at work, and both bomb showing some wierd stuff like:

It seems like something isn't going completely through the formatting correctly.

When I try it in IE, I also am able to see the following errors:

Line: 6 Char: 1
and Line: 30 Char: 9
Error: 'tinyMCE' is undefined
Code: 0
URL: http://hostit1.connectria.com/philrandolph/philrandolph.nsf/+sfgRmluamFuX1R5cGU9amF2YV9zY3JpcHQmRmlu/plugins/advlink/link.htm

Also seeing similar problems when trying to use the 'Insert/edit anchor' widget, 'Insert/edit image' widget, 'Inserts a new table' widget.

Along with troubleshooting it inside of my Dominoblog database, I went to TinyMCE's site, and reading the entry in the faq:

- Does TinyMCE work on the TinyMCE website. Then you know that TinyMCE works with your browser.

I tried that...and on their site, I don't even get the unformatted code, I just get a blank popup window (with an error apparent in IE).

Has anyone else been experiencing this? I'm at a loss. I may cross-post this a couple of places to see what I can find out...

Phil's Listening To - "Firefly Talk #11" - www.fireflytalk.com
Phil's Reading - "Hockey Gods" - Nicholas J. Cotsonika

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:41:00 AM, in  Blogging  | TinyMCE issues | Comments (0)

Sorry about the lull in posts people...

Neither Kath nor I have had a chance to put up anything for the last couple of days.  I had thought about and intended to at least put up the obligatory "Merry Christmas" post late on the 24th, but the evening got away from me due to our 4pm Christmas Eve service at church, and then opening our Christmas Eve presents and then getting the munchkins (in their new disney themed jammies) to bed.

I had a very RedWings-full Christmas this year.  Going from memory, I believe I got at least 4 or 5 books, a DVD set of favorite games and other Wings features, and a RedWings steering wheel cover (got to remember to try to install that tonight).    We together got a 3 X 5 ft Wings banner/flag and Kath got a 48 Hours in Hockeytown book and a Shanahan t-shirt.  Zach even got a cool Wings t-shirt.  I'm sure I'm leaving more out.

I'll let Kath go into more detail about our Christmas with her own post if she wants.

Phil's Listening To - "Firefly Talk #10" - www.fireflytalk.com
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek New Frontier: After The Fall" - Peter David

Posted by Phil Randolph at 12:44:00 PM, in  Blogging  | 5 days, no posts - Christmas happens... | Comments (1)

Continuing on from last post...
    We went to a Cleveland Barons AHL game at the "Q" (formerly Gund Arena) in which they played against the Rochester Americans.  The game was fun to watch and Zach was very excited about going to his first "real" hockey game.   There was an annoying guy monotoning the whole time saying the same stuff over an over again and ringing cowbells and such, and playing a kuzoo to get the "CHARGE" cheer going, but to us it really was mostly just annoying, even to Zach.  The game went to overtime and then a shootout which we were happy to see, as we haven't see on live before.  Our Barons won the shootout 2-1 and therefore the game 3-2.  So that was cool.   Also got the call on the car and got the expected price (which they had ballparked pretty closely), so the car can be picked up tomorrow - that's a relief!
    We then went back to tower city to walk around a bit and Kath and the kids watched a Christmas show in the main open area.  Then over to have dinner at Cooper'stown restaurant, and enjoyed a few of their sampler type appetizer dishes.  That hit the spot.
    Back to the car and then around public square to look that the Christmas lights that are up.  On they way home, Katie fell asleep, and Kath was able to get her out of the car, into the house, into her room, and ready for bed without her waking all the way up...good job hon!  Hope she doesn't wake up too early tomorrow morning (I know, I'll be the one to get up with her right?)
    Now, we sit down to watch hockey game #2 for the day, our beloved Wings (of course) vs. the defending Stanley Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightning.  At the start of the 2nd period, we had started looking at the 2 sliding glass doors the separate our family room from our "craft" room, we'd been wanting to get them out so I could get the frame out and then re-drywall the opening to finish it all off (we just redid the entire family room this fall).  Up to this point we figured we would need someone to come over who knew what they were doing to get them out, as I to this point hadn't been able to get them to budge.  But, being the huge strapping guy I am (5'6", 150lbs), I thought lets see if I can try manhandling them off the track with a crowbar.
    So, I began and what do you know, I got the beginning of the first one up out of it's seating in the track.  Encouraged by this, I kept on pulling and prodding and lifting and started to make some headway with the whole thing.  The only thing in my way now was the wonderful thick shag carpet in the craft room, but I didn't let that stop me and I finally yanked it out and we set it down in the front of the couch.  Now I was on a roll of course, and it was still only midway through the 2nd period and via updates from Kath I knew the score was 3-2 Lightning at that point.  So I began tackling the other one.  I'm sure I bent a bit more of the bottom part of the frame this time and the carpet was a factor again.  But that one's now out too. Yay me!
    Sat back down sweating and tired (but happy) for the end of the 2nd period, and the boys tied it up 3-3.  From there, for the first time in a while, they really kicked it into high gear and dominated the 3rd period scoring 3 unanswered goals and taking the game 6-3
    Now I've got some frame yanking and drywalling and corner beading to do over the next couple of days, hoping to have most of it done before my parents get here for Christmas, good timing, as Kath and the kids are going to take a couple days trip to see Great Grandma, then Kath's sister's family and then a good friend from college before getting back Thursday.  

Alright that's enough...anyone sick of me yet???

Phil's Listening To - Just the computer and the furnace humming.
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek New Frontier: After The Fall" - Peter David

Posted by Phil Randolph at 10:45:00 PM, in  Blogging  | An Interesting Day...part 2 | Comments (0)

Started out good...
    Slept in a little bit (comparatively) for a Saturday, after sending the kids back to their rooms to play after they woke up.
Got the kids breakfast and then out the door with them to JCPenney's to get mommy some Christmas presents from the kids. Pulled out of the parking lot and then SCREEECH, CRUNCH, RUMBLE....uh-oh
    Hmm...I can't control my car...this is bad as I'm out on a street instead of the parking lot I was just in, oh yeah and the kids are in the back seat pretty much oblivious that there is a problem.  Let's see what I can do... It lumbers back a little, but still little control, ok, I'm still in a lane on the street, let's hope I can at least get it into the middle turn lane so people can get past.  So I do that (who knows how, and I honestly can't remember right now, but somehow I was able to get the car pretty much at about a 75 degree perpendicular mostly in the middle turn lane, not 30 feet or more out of the mall parking lot, and not 30 more feet from our church's parking lot... well, that was convenient.  Fortunately this is the PT Cruiser so it's pretty squat so people can get by, although of course alot are slowing down and gawking at this point.  A couple of them ask if I need help, as I'm calling Kath on my cell to please come over with the mini-van as the car is out of commission, of course I don't know why yet.   Got the kids out of the car, and told them to stay on the sidewalk in front of our church.  They of course want to be messing around in the snow, and all they know is that daddy's car won't move and it's in the middle of the street.
    So, now someone stops and gets out of their car behind me in the middle lane and ask if I'd like help with trying to push it out.  I say "that would be great, thanks!" but we try to budge it and it's going nowhere in any gear, even in drive with no break on it's doing nothing.  Another guy stops in our church driveway, walks over and says, "hey, your front tires are facing two different directions".  Of course I hadn't even gotten around to that side of the car yet, and when we look, yup, a broken tie rod...wow, never even seen that before... Yeah, I'm a bit screwed at this point.
    So, after a little while, and more gawkers and more offerings of help, most of which I just directed on past, Kath gets there and sees what we've got, and we determine that the best thing would be to get it towed to the Firestone place behind us at the perimeter of the mall parking lot, another nice coincidence.   Someone up there is looking out for us down here!
    I hike over to the Firestone place as she gets the kids in the van, I let them know our situation and they call a tow truck to bring in on over, a matter of about 200 feet maybe, but it's not getting there any other way.  We wait what seems like forever, but I'm sure it was our impatience along with the kid's impatience that made it seem longer.  The tow guy finally got there and zipped it right over.  I left everything in there hands with the expectation of a call later that morning or afternoon with a repair estimate.
    Back to the mini-van with mommy to complete our morning's shopping trip (for her present).  I run in and get her the book she wants from the bookstore (yeah I know she reads and post on here, and it's not a suprise anyway, so don't worry about it).  Then a zip back home to pick up a couple of things and a snack for the young-uns before we head downtown for the next phase of the day.

Continued in next post

Phil's Listening To - Silence for just about the first time today!
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek New Frontier: After The Fall" - Peter David

Posted by Phil Randolph at 10:25:00 PM, in  Blogging  | An Interesting Day...part 1 | Comments (0)

Taking Rocky's suggestion, here's my 10 words:

1. Christian
2. Husband
3. Father
4. Caring
5. RedWings-Fan
6. Developer
7. Decisive
8. Short-memory
9. Comical
10. Smart-Alec

Lets see how that compares...

Phil's Listening To - "Firefly Talk #7" - Podcast on www.fireflytalk.com
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek New Frontier: After The Fall" - Peter David

Posted by Phil Randolph at 11:51:00 AM, in  Blogging  | My 10 Words about me | Comments (0)

That's right. Within the next few days, whenever she can find the time, my wife Kathy will be posting in her own category I've setup called "Kath's Korner".

She's seen how easy it is to put up an entry, and wants to do more than just comment on my entries. She'll likely blog most about Red Wings hockey, but may branch in to other things like family, shows we like to watch, stuff she's trying to do around the house, hobbies and things she likes to do. Who knows??? I'm glad she will have a place to voice her own opinions and maybe some of you will like some blog entries from a slightly different angle.

Phil's Listening To - "Taking Notes Episode 7 - Interview with Chris Linfoot" - Taking Notes Podcast
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek New Frontier: After The Fall" - Peter David

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:13:00 AM, in  Blogging  | My wife will soon be joining us... | Comments (0)

I've returned from my brief work-related excursion.  I hate to stop posting for a couple of days especially on a new blog just getting started.

Boy, visitor numbers sure are down, not that they were ever really high in the first place...YET!  

Perhaps if I actually write about something interesting...hmm...that would be an idea

Its amazing how many places outside the midwest (in a more southerly direction) can't handle even a little bit of snow.  I was on the east coast for my trip, and with an inch or so of snow on the ground and a little bit of ice, they shut all the public schools down for a 100 mile radius, and the office I was in had a two hour delay.  Kind of amazed me...

Phil's Listening To - "The Best Is Yet To Come" - James Darren
Phil's Reading - "Star Trek New Frontier: After The Fall" - Peter David

Posted by Phil Randolph at 11:27:00 AM, in  Blogging  | I’m back | Comments (0)

As you can see, (assuming you've been here before) I've made some changes to the colors the blog uses. I've not fiddled with much else yet...but I'm going to try to bone up a bit on CSS so I can decipher what does what in this design so I can tweak what I want.

The first big thing I want to get working, is the text formatting in the actual blog entries. Right now it appears to be just plain text even when in the Rich Text editor I've changed colors or fonts or sizes. Hopefully that one won't be too hard to figure out.

Phil's Listening To -"Happy Days Theme Song" - My TV Themes Playlist
Phil's Reading -"Stargazer - Maker" - Michael Jan Friedman

Posted by Phil Randolph at 10:00:00 PM, in  Blogging  | New color scheme in place - whatcha think? | Comments (3)

Well, as you can see, after quite a bit of tedious work adding a whole bunch of links into the database, the blogroll is now in place. I couldn't believe how large it has gotten.

I actually read most of these via RSS in Bloglines. But it is nice to see more than just the blog entry content from time to time and view the flickr pictures or other interesting items.

I would assume that I should start showing up in Technorati listings soon as "sites linking here" on some of your pages. Although, that may be only in posts, not in blogrolls...I'll have to experiment. I think I'll explore getting that in place here today.

Phil's Listening To - "Episode 3 - Interview with Ben Poole" - Taking Notes Podcast
Phil's Reading - "Stargazer - Engima" - Michael Jan Friedman

Posted by Phil Randolph at 10:15:00 PM, in  Blogging  | Blogroll is up! | Comments (0)

Still getting the hang of this template, but I think I'll be able to pull together my blogroll pretty soon, and make it look halfway decent in here...

Plus it'll make me weed out some of the dead stuff, and break it up between what I read in Bloglines and what's a manual look at the real blog pages.

Posted by Phil Randolph at 08:11:00 PM, in  Blogging  | Blogroll on the way | Comments (0)

I was sad to see on the news last night and in an blog entry on Stan's site that Pat Morita had died.  

I really loved him in the Karate Kid movies (even that last one with the girl), and then to find out, when I was finally paying attention on Happy Days reruns that he was "Arnold".

Its sad to see these people go, and some of them younger than my father, who turned 75 this last July.  I bet its a bit unnerving for him to see it happen too.  I'm just glad Dad is still with us, and able to enjoy his grandkids.

Phil's Listening To - "Happy Holidays"- Bing Crosby
Phil's Reading - "Stargazer - Engima" - Michael Jan Friedman

Posted by Phil Randolph at 01:27:42 PM, in  Blogging  | Mr. Miyagi - Pat Morita gone at 73 | Comments (0)

I'm batting around the idea of putting Google AdSense up on this new site.  

For those of you that are doing it, how is it going?  Any gotchas I would need to know about?  Is it worth it?  How have others who read your blogs reacted to it?  Favorably or unfavorably?  

Just want to be well informed before I bring it on board.

Phil's Listening To - "Adeste Fidelis" - Bing Crosby
Phil's Reading - "Stargazer - Engima" - Michael Jan Friedman

Posted by Phil Randolph at 01:24:04 PM, in  Blogging  | To do AdSense or not??? | Comments (1)

Well, as you can see, I'm starting to get the basics in place on the left side of the blog, as well as putting out a few entries...

Still need to get a blogroll in place, are there any good automated ways to programmatically do this, or some way specifically built into the Dominoblog template?

Also may try to go over to a slightly different site template (colors, boxes and such).  I know that there are some here, but I know there are a lot more of Dominoblog based blogs out there and a wide range of looks.  Do most of you just roll your own, or are you getting them from some other source out there?  Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!   ; - )

Phil's Listening To - "Look Away"- Chicago
Phil's Reading - "Stargazer - Engima" - Michael Jan Friedman

Posted by Phil Randolph at 10:33:30 PM, in  Blogging  | Still setting up | Comments (2)

Hope you won't hold too much against me for some of my somewhat basic questions about getting this blog rolling, but I'm having a heck of a time figuring out how to get the bio page that I built (as a Static Web Page document).  

It's named Bio.htm and marked as published, but I can't directly reference it in the url as I think I should be able to, and I'm confused as to how to create a link under either one of the existing blocks on the left, or building a new one...

I'm sure I'll come across the right way to do it, but any pointers in the right direction from all you "old pros" at this thing would be appreciated.

Update 11:25pm - when I actually concentrated on it for a minute, I figured, well, it's a link - and it's local to this database, maybe I should find where to put links and pop it in there to begin with...and low and behold, a link directly to bio.htm is now on the right...granted, not where I want it to reside long term, but it's there, and I've learned something!

Posted by Phil Randolph at 10:11:24 PM, in  Blogging  | Forgive me for my ignorance | Comments (0)

Following the lead of others of you, I went to the frappr link on Carl's page

I've added myself to this one for sametime users, and this one for Lotusphere 2006 attendees.

It's kinda fun to see the demographics of these things, and it will make things a bit easier with the pictures that some people are adding to their frappr profiles.

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:53:42 PM, in  Blogging  Notes/Domino  | Frappr | Comments (0)

Welcome to PhilRandolph.com

It's great to be running an actual Notes/Domino database for my new blog.  It's also nice to have my name on it (and at some point here - the domain too!)

Thanks a ton to Chris for letting me ride along on his server and for all his expertise in getting me going.

This blog will at times be dominated by entries on everything from Notes/Domino client and web development, Detroit Red Wings Hockey, the life and times of myself and my family, my eclectic music tastes, who knows what else...

As I am brand new to using this Dominoblog template, I will be experimenting with the layout and looks of various parts of the site, so please bare with me, as I trudge up the learning curve : - 0

I'll be trying to get a page up soon about me and my family as well as my notes/domino development background.

What you will NOT fiend is any info about my employer, as they have agreed to let me blog and also put my name on it, but not to mention them, which is something I'll be happy to comply with.

Hope you enjoy the ride on this new blog 'o mine.

Phil's Listening To - "I'll Be Home For Christmas" - Bing Crosby
Phil's Reading - "Stargazer - Engima" - Michael Jan Friedman

Posted by Phil Randolph at 09:43:30 PM, in  Blogging  Notes/Domino  | My New Blog | Comments (5)