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A Message to everyone attending Lotusphere

I hope that all of you attending Lotusphere right now (especially my i.blog Blogging buddies)… have a great time! Remember that some of us can’t be there (even though WE WANT TO AND SHOULD BE THERE), so please blog early and often. We want lots of information, and lots of stories, both professional and personal. DETAILS…WE NEED DETAILS!!!

My poor 2 year old daughter is having Lotusphere withdrawal. She remembered from last year that after Daddy’s birthday, we fly to Florida to see Mickey Mouse, Bear in the Big Blue House, and my friends. She’s been very sad. If anyone can see it in their hearts to grab an extra freebie item for her (she still plays with last year’s stuff), this Lion King would appreciate it tremendously.

Since I’m not teaching next week, one of the classrooms will be turned into a ‘Lotusphere Command Center’ with many of your blogs up on each screen. I’m going to attempt to do a ‘View of Lotusphere from the Pridelands’ thing on this blog, so I’m planning on referencing many of your blogs throughout the week. Keep that information coming!

Motown Winter Blast

The City of Detroit is having a cool festival that’s starting today. Sled dogs, ice skating, a toboggan slide, roasting marshmallows, ice sculptures, and all kinds of winter-like fun…right in the middle of the city! The Pride is planning on checking it out tomorrow. I’ll give a detailed report…maybe with pictures (now that I’m using the latest Blogsphere template).

Get some more information by clicking on: http://www.motownwinterblast.com/

Stopping comment spam by working together

According to Slashdot, Google, MSN Search, MSN Spaces, Yahoo!, Six Apart, LiveJournal, Flickr, Blogger, and many others are trying to stop comment spam in blogs by all agreeing to use a special attribute in links.

I hope that BlogSphere adds the new attribute soon.

Take a look at these links for more information: http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/01/19/0516246.shtml?tid=111&tid=217 http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/01/18/nofollow_tags.aspx http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000069.html http://www.movabletype.org/news/2005/01/movable_type_nofollow_p.shtml http://www.sixapart.com/log/2005/01/support_for_nof.shtml

Part 2: More on the w.bloggar / Blogger API problem

I set JavaVerbose=1 on my server and then tried to use w.bloggar to access my test blog. Here are the results:

01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded JavaAgent]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of JavaAgent]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing JavaAgent]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcServer]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpcServer]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpcServer]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Initializing org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpcServer]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Running static initializer for org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpcServer]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded net.codestore.domino.xmlrpc.blogger.BlogSphereBloggerAPI]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of net/codestore/domino/xmlrpc/blogger/BlogSphereBloggerAPI]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded net.codestore.domino.xmlrpc.blogger.BaseBloggerAPI]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of net/codestore/domino/xmlrpc/blogger/BaseBloggerAPI]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded org.apache.oro.text.regex.MalformedPatternException]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of org/apache/oro/text/regex/MalformedPatternException]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing net/codestore/domino/xmlrpc/blogger/BaseBloggerAPI]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing net/codestore/domino/xmlrpc/blogger/BlogSphereBloggerAPI]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Initializing net/codestore/domino/xmlrpc/blogger/BaseBloggerAPI]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Running static initializer for net/codestore/domino/xmlrpc/blogger/BaseBloggerAPI]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Initializing net/codestore/domino/xmlrpc/blogger/BlogSphereBloggerAPI]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded com.swapcode.util.StringUtils]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of com/swapcode/util/StringUtils]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing com/swapcode/util/StringUtils]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded net.codestore.domino.xmlrpc.metaweblog.BaseMetaWeblogAPI]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of net/codestore/domino/xmlrpc/metaweblog/BaseMetaWeblogAPI]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing net/codestore/domino/xmlrpc/metaweblog/BaseMetaWeblogAPI]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Initializing net/codestore/domino/xmlrpc/metaweblog/BaseMetaWeblogAPI]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Running static initializer for net/codestore/domino/xmlrpc/metaweblog/BaseMetaWeblogAPI]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcHandler]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpcHandler]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded org.apache.xmlrpc.AuthenticatedXmlRpcHandler]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of org/apache/xmlrpc/AuthenticatedXmlRpcHandler]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded org.apache.xmlrpc.Invoker]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of org/apache/xmlrpc/Invoker]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpcHandler]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpcException]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing org/apache/xmlrpc/Invoker]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpc]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpc]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpc]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Initializing org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpc]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Running static initializer for org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpc]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded uk.co.wilson.xml.MinML]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of uk/co/wilson/xml/MinML]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded uk.org.xml.sax.Parser]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of uk/org/xml/sax/Parser]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded uk.org.xml.sax.DocumentHandler]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of uk/org/xml/sax/DocumentHandler]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing uk/org/xml/sax/Parser]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing uk/org/xml/sax/DocumentHandler]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded uk.co.wilson.xml.MinML$MinMLBuffer]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of uk/co/wilson/xml/MinML$MinMLBuffer]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing uk/co/wilson/xml/MinML]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Initializing uk/co/wilson/xml/MinML]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Running static initializer for uk/co/wilson/xml/MinML]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded org.apache.xmlrpc.Formatter]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of org/apache/xmlrpc/Formatter]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing org/apache/xmlrpc/Formatter]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcServer$Worker]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpcServer$Worker]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpc$XmlWriter]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpc$XmlWriter]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpcServer$Worker]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded uk.co.wilson.xml.MinML$1]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of uk/co/wilson/xml/MinML$1]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing uk/co/wilson/xml/MinML$1]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing uk/co/wilson/xml/MinML$MinMLBuffer]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loaded org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpc$Value]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Loading superclasses of org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpc$Value]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpc$Value]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Signaling in VM: java/lang/reflect/InvocationTargetException, message: ]
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: at org.apache.xmlrpc.Invoker.execute(XmlRpcServer.java)
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcServer$Worker.executeInternal(XmlRpcServer.java)
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcServer$Worker.execute(XmlRpcServer.java)
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcServer.execute(XmlRpcServer.java)
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcServer.execute(XmlRpcServer.java)
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: at JavaAgent.NotesMain(JavaAgent.java:92)
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: at lotus.domino.AgentBase.runNotes(Unknown Source)
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: at lotus.domino.NotesThread.run(NotesThread.java:215)
01/18/2005 02:19:05 PM HTTP JVM: [Preparing org/apache/xmlrpc/XmlRpc$XmlWriter]

Any ideas?

I’m back!

Right around 9:12AM on January 8th, 2005, the power supply to the machine that’s hosting this site died. I just placed a new power supply in the machine, and voila…Bilyk’s Pride is back!

I missed you all!