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Robert Brooks is our Lotus rep responsible for Business Partner Development in Canada.
It’s great to see Robert bringing his energy, views, tips and information about the Lotus world “outside the firewall.”
Check out Robert’s Blog @ Thoughts, Tips, News and information for Canadian BP’s and SMB Customers
Tags: lotus-software, tips, Canada

On to something new…within IBM

A few weeks ago it was announced within IBM that I will be taking on the role of Lotus Technical Sales Manager for Canada.  The initial shock of being accepted to the position has worn off and been replaced by a whole new type of shock…the shock of learning the inner workings of IBM from [...]

The amazing Thinkpad bio-feedback device

My laptop knows me all too well.   I swipe my finger to authenticate and it actually can actually describe me!
Attempt 1:  “Too short”
Attempt 2:  “Too fast”
Attempt 3: “Joint detected” (ok…so even my laptop makes mistakes)
Attempt 4:  “Too skewed”
Attempt 5:  “Too short” (thanks for rubbing it in)
Attempt 6: “Failed!”
Attempt 7: “Failed!”
Attempt 8: “Succeeded”
Eight tries to get [...]

You’re baby this week: 15 month, 3 weeks

At this point in your child’s development you will realize that he has moved past his passion for drinking out of toilets and discover that he now points at cars as they pass and says “Mama”
Considering that “Mama” is quite pregnant, THAT went over REALLY well.

“You lost your luggage? That’s nothin’…I lost my wife!”

Travelling can be frustrating but I have NEVER had a day like this before:
11:59 pm Thurs: still working trying to get ahead. Canadianlong weekend coming up but my U.S. counterparts are still working.
12:30 am Friday: finally lay down for a “nap”
4:30 am: get up…shower…mumble something unintelligible to wife.
5:00 am: Get in car for airport…no time for coffee.  [...]

Twitter/Mail/IM v. The Office

Every time I hear a “ding” on my computer or Blackberry I flinch when you have so many communication channels available to you (Sametime/Twitter/Mail/SMS…and a bunch more that I’m checking out) it’s pretty easy to become conditioned to run turn your attention to whatever device made the noise and distract you from something (ahem…someone) else.
Not good.
You can argue [...]

Sametime Mobile 8.0.1 over the air install

Just discovered that Sametime Mobile 8.0.1 is now available for over-the-air install from our Lotus public site.
Using it on my Blackberry on a regular basis and lovin’ it.
 
 
 
Tags: sametime, mobility

When you run out of things to say…

A friend of mine started a blog a couple of years ago.  It was an active blog full of interesting insights and generated some intriguing discussion.
Then, suddenly, there were no more updates. *gasp*
At the time, I was just about to start blogging myself so I asked him why he stopped.

“I ran out of things to [...]