You just can’t get reliable staff these days, apparently, or at least good spellers.
Apparently a Russian-born assistant at a florist in Springvale (a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, not too far from where I live) earlier this month made some “grave” spelling mistakes when writing out a floral wreath card:
If the card had been inscribed “Rust in peas” perhaps I would give it a pass mark, since what happens to us after burial is a process somewhat akin to rusting!
Following a query in another post, I’ve received an official answer from Nuance Communications about using Dragon NaturallySpeaking with IBM Lotus Notes.
See Working with Dragon NaturallySpeaking in IBM Lotus Notes either here or here
The article Ghosts in the machine at the Australian website Fairfax Digital contains much food for thought.
“What happens when you die? In cyberspace not much” it starts off with, “unless you make the appropriate arrangements.”
Many people don’t make out a will and so die intestate, with lots of negative ramifications. But even if you have a will, it’s fairly likely that it doesn’t take account of your digital assets.
When you depart from this earthly vale of tears, what can and should be done with all your passwords, files, web domains, and other things that exist on your computers and other electronic devices as well as all over the place in the World WIDE Web.
I encourage you to read the article and think hard about what you should do about these assets of yours, if they have any significant meaning and value to you and your dear ones.
Professor David Suzuki has some wise words for us all, watch and listen to his Test Tube story as he shares a common scientific observation.
TIP: enter just a single word when prompted in the opening screen.
By pure coincidence, the other day two websites came to my attention. Both are concerned with music but in markedly different and, to me -- by their very juxtaposition in my stream of awareness – rather amusing ways.
In stark contrast, there’s Love God’s Way Ministries who say they “specialize in Christian topics other so-called Churches do not want to deal with. Recently, we’ve started work on the Homosexual problem. We believe they can be fixed and we have created a means of fixing them.”
Being an old square I happen to listen almost exclusively to orchestral (“classical”) music, jazz, the Big Bands, and other mainly instrumental music.
So I have only the slightest experience of most of today's “popular” music, the supposedly-dangerous Gay Bands that they list:
“One of the most dangerous ways Homosexuality invades family life is through popular music. Parents, please keep careful watch over your children’s listening habits. … We Strongly recommend that you burn the CDs” they say.
Nor do I have more than the slightest experience listening to the Safe Bands that they have cataloged.
Perhaps you’d be interested in reviewing their two lists, the devilish versus heavenly bands, giving your opinions and explaining it all to an out-of-touch old timer?
Does anybody know where to download a copy of that old faithful, Notes Ping (nping.exe), more recently renamed to NotesConnect.
I haven’t managed to find a downloadable copy anywhere.
Since the Lotus Sandbox is no longer extant. Stupid decision, IBM. Why decommit a very handy tool like this (and all the others in the Lotus Sandbox)?
Surely you could have left the sandbox open as a “no longer supported but we hope you might still get some value from it” archive.
Are there any newer, alternative and/or better free Notes connectivity tester tools?
It’s no problem being a geek, it would seem, according to Jason Hiner in his ZDNet blog posting The future of IT jobs? It's in three types of roles
You may or may not agree, but it makes interesting reading.
There’s a LinkedIn discussion group named Gurus of Lotus – Worldwide with one discussion thread that I’ve been following from a distance: What can we do to promote the technology that we all love?
This is, in turn, an extension of an older thread What do you think? Is Notes fading away? – a more recent variation of the “Is Lotus Notes dead?” theme.
It makes me wonder if we need a version of the following image for Lotus Notes:
[tongue in cheek]
Will code HTML for food
