As promised, I’m making a list of known Lotusphere 2006 speakers. If your name is not on this list but you ARE speaking, presenting, leading a BoF (Birds of a Feather) session, please email me at TheLionKing@thepridelands.com. Thanks to Ed Brill (who is presenting as well) for starting the list on his blog. Here we go:

Ed Brill and Libby Ingrassia
Carl Tyler
Jess
John David Head aka ‘Starfish’
Devin Olson
Paul Mooney and Wild Bill
Bruce Elgort and Vince Schuurman
Chris Byrne aka ‘The Caddymaster’
Duffbert (who will be presenting with Julian Robichaux instead of his usual partner and the other member of Team-TSG, Joe Litton)
Chris Whisonant
vowe
Stephan Wissel
Chris Miller aka ‘IDoNotes’
Henry (Newbs?)
Scott (??? Help Ed!)

Added 11-4-05:
Warren Elsmore…good luck on your upcoming wedding!

Added 11-7-05:
Add Andrew Pollack to the mix.

If you’re going, send me an email also.

From Slashdot, Nestle has applied for a patent for a fermented coffee beverage. Coffee beer? Well, there is a lot of beer out there that’s made with coffee beans. (I plan on making some soon.) What IS different is that it looks like it will be made from the coffee beans itself. "Where do I buy a six-pack?" I thought. Then I noticed something in the patent itself… NON-ALCOHOLIC!!!

Oh well. I like coffee enough that I’ll still drink it.

I’m 0 for 2! I just received this in my e-mail:

From: Lotusphere_2006_Content_Team@Lotus.com
Sent by: Lotusphere_Devcon_Staffing@Lotus.com
Subject: We Are Unable to Accept Your Lotusphere 2006 Session Submission

Title: Knowledge is Power (and Productivity): Education Options for Lotus Software
Ray J Bilyk

Thank you for submitting an abstract for consideration for Lotusphere 2006. Unfortunately, we are unable to accept your session submission. This year we received a record number of session submissions, and are simply unable to accommodate all of them.

We truly thank you for your interest and we hope you will consider submitting again for Lotusphere 2007, and upcoming Lotus Software technical conferences.

Sincerely,

The Lotusphere 2006 Content Team

Bummer for me, but in the grand scheme of things, that means that if I go, I don’t have to worry about being heckled… It still hurts a bit though…. See you next year, Content Team!!!

Ed Brill announced earlier in the week that the Lotusphere session selections are just about done. In fact, it looks like some people (Vowe, Carl Tyler, …Did I miss anybody?) have already received their announcements.

I remember in the past that if your session(s) were not selected, you received a ‘thank you for submitting, but…" letter (sort of like a ‘Dear John’ letter, but more painful), but that I received it a while after the presenters were chosen. I have NOT received either as of yet. I’m just ‘keeping hope alive’ at this point. No matter what happens, I’ll submit again next year.

Congratulations to all who have been selected (or will be selected). If you get selected, let me know… We can keep a running list.

Trick or Treat!!!

Kiara is sick, so she won’t be able to go out for ‘Trick or Treating’ tonight. Hope that everyone else has a SAFE Halloween! Hope that everyone gets what they want in their goodie bags.

Another podcast from the Pridelands.

By the way, I know there wasn’t an episode 004. I considered the Red Cross PSA as an episode.

Shownotes:

Joshua Kadison – The Bubble Man
http://www.joshuakadison.com

The Status on Bruce Hopkins
http://dpconnection.blogspot.com

Podsafe Music Network
http://music.podshow.com
PW Fenton & The Second Ward – 99 Pounds
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=121b2e07b150012150a0a0ea32c457c4
bill – sound scientist
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=148cefe228e814695760e94419a9a1f8

The Status on ‘Friend Dave’ and his house

Michigan Brewers Guild
http://www.michiganbrewersguild.org/

Fort Street Brewery
http://www.fortstreetbrewery.com
http://www.fortstreetbeer.com

Lotusphere 2006
http://www.lotus.com/lotusphere

My blog
http://www.thepridelands.com

My email
TheLionKing@thepridelands.com

My podcast feed
http://feeds.feedburner.com/thepridelands

My niece, Selena, is currently at Children’s Hospital in Detroit. She started having problems breathing a couple of days ago.

Selena…get better soon!

I also found out yesterday that just about everyone else in my family is sick as well. Maggie, Kiara, Jimmy… just to name a few. My niece, Katie, is at school in Grand Rapids. I hope that she’s away from all of this.

Everyone… GET BETTER…please?

UPDATE (10-28-2005 12:00PM EST): I just found out from Jennifer that Selena is being discharged from the hospital. More details coming soon.

At LotusGeek.com, Rocky Oliver will be making an announcement about something cool coming to Lotusphere 2006. Since he can’t announce it yet, he decided to give ‘clues’ to what it is. I don’t know if it’s because it’s Lotusphere or that I have a 3 year old that likes ‘Blue’s Clues’ (ok, I like the show also), but I can’t wait for the next clue.

Since the last clue was Friday, (Are you okay, Rocky?) you can catch up with them all now:

Clue 1
Clue 2
Clue 3
Clues 4 & 5
Clue 6
Clue 7

I don’t know what’s better…the clues or the guesses in his comments. Go check them out!

Elmer "Len" Dresslar Jr. died October 16th of cancer. He was the voice of the Jolly Green Giant…you know, "Ho, ho ho…Green Giant!" He actually was an entertainer that had his had in other commercials as well. I don’t know if you can say that we’ll miss him, but that booming "Ho, ho ho" is something I’ll never forget.

More details from WDIV-TV (ClickOnDetroit.com).

This morning, I found out that the local station in Detroit (97.1FM) broadcasting Howard Stern is not replacing him with David Lee Roth or Mancow, but with some show out of Cleveland called ‘Rover’s Morning Glory’. (Does anybody know anything about him? Please let me know.) Infinity Broadcasting (which owns WKRK-FM 97.1) is also rebranding some of their stations as ‘Free FM‘.

I find this almost too funny for words. Isn’t the lack of freedom by the FCC one of the reasons Howard Stern is leaving regular radio for Sirius Satellite Radio?

Check out more on this here from Michiguide: Michiguide.com: Out: Stern. In: Rover, Free FM for WKRK Detroit

This doesn’t affect me too much, because I’m a Drew-and-Mike guy.