I wish I could say that it was Ed Brill’s trip to Disneyland Hong Kong (and his incident before that… sorry you had to deal with that, Ed!) that inspired me, but it was actually being planned for a while. Thanks to a great friend, Jennifer, Kiara and I are heading to Florida for a well deserved break. Hopefully, this will give my batteries a chance to recharge…

I plan to blogging and taking pictures while down there, since the resort where we are staying has internet access. I’m also considering starting the podcasts back up again.

I’m a counselor for a youth group (the Columbian Squires) here in Detroit. One of the boys (a teenager actually), Sean Roland, wanted to start his own blog. He’s been reading mine, so he wanted to see how mine worked. Since I love showing people Lotus Notes/Domino, this was easy. Since this kid is smart enough to know a good thing when he sees it, he’s now a Blogsphere user. Check him out and say hello at: http://sar.serveblog.net . He’s not old enough to drive, but he’s been doing some very nice CSS and html code.

Welcome to the party, ‘Sugar’ Sean! (You’re next step… Lotus Notes development training…)

Just about everyone has seen how to fold a t-shirt in seconds…. Now thanks to YouTube, you can see even more tips. Just set your browser to: http://www.youtube.com/results?search=urawaza and you’re set. You probably won’t understand what they’re saying, but a video is worth 10 thousand words.

(Thanks to LifeHacker, ‘jwest’ and YouTube)

I don’t know if you’re getting this also, but I’ve been receiving a lot of emails from people I don’t know lately asking me if I can invite them to join Gmail. I think these are spammers that are trying to get free accounts so they can slow down our mail accounts with their crap!

Hey jerkys! Get this through your enormously thick skulls… IF I DON’T KNOW YOU, I WON’T TALK TO YOU! I’M ALSO NOT GOING TO WASTE MY TIME INVITING YOU TO JOIN GMAIL JUST SO YOU CAN SPAM ME AND MY FRIENDS! GO CRAWL BACK UNDER THE ROCK YOU CAME FROM AND DIE!!!

Boy, did that feel good! You may now return to your regularly scheduled browsing.

Sorry for the play on words, but this is a simple but awesome tip. I was asked a question about how a user can view the full message headers from a mail message. Other applications make it easy to do, but it’s not very intuitive (word of the week) in Notes. Here’s all you have to do to view the full message:

1. Open the message
2. From the menu bar, select View >> Show >> Page Source.

Shazzam! There’s the full header, as well as the message in its ‘undisturbed’ state.

A short and sweet end user tip. Oh yea, I’m lovin’ it!

Besides missing my friend, Tawnya’s birthday, I missed some other important birthdays. Here they are…

Sunday, April 2nd – my sister-in-law, Brenda McGrath
Sunday, April 2nd – my friend’s son, Joseph Edward Drumsta
Tuesday, April 4th – my friend, Jim Drumsta (Joey’s Dad)
Wednesday, April 5th – my sister’s aunt, ‘Aunt Angel’

Happy Birthday to you all!!!

Yes, I’m heading back to Chicago for a 3 night stay. Business once again. Tired of travelling once again. Going to miss my family once again. Gotta do what I gotta do once again. ‘Nuff said!

I’m one of the worst friends in the world…

Yesterday was one of my best friend’s birthdays… and even though I was out of town, that was no excuse for not calling or anything… I’m sorry!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TAWNYA DYSARZ!!!

Today is Bryce Perry’s birthday. He used to work with me. I haven’t heard from him since the NFL pre-season. He promised to send me his fantasy draft analysis, then POOF… he’s gone! I hope that he’s having a great birthday! He was always a private person. We never knew if he was dating anyone, so we made jokes about his sexual orientation. He took it in stride, and sometimes made fun of himself. Here’s one of those moments:

Have a great birthday, Bryce… and a great life!

Again… A day late and a dollar short… Here is one cool techie thing I learned this past week. It’s a short one, but I’ve got a full plate this week. Here we go…

There’s another way to get information from your cell phone via SMS messages. It’s called 4INFO, and it works great. I used it to find out if my plane was being delayed, but it has many other uses as well. Here is a brief rundown on how it works…

Get more information by going to http://www.4info.net/