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- The busiest travel day of the year...not so farYesterday
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I'm sitting outside gate 2 at Lehigh Valley
International (?) airport (ABE = Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton) awaiting the
first leg of my 22-hour odyssey to Naples.
The far-away one - in fact I'll be visiting both Naples (Napleses? Naples-i?)
in the next two weeks. The sleepy airport had nobody in the rental return
lot, and I deduced from opening a few car doors that the modus operandi
was to drop your keys on the seat. There was no line at 8:30, and I had
a nice chat with the Comair/Delta lady who was helping with bags and kiosk
checkin (apparently they've deduced as well - that today's average Joe
six-pack traveller will likely take more time at the kiosk than they will
jumping over the desk and doing it for them). Funny thing was, I'm not
on Comair or Delta, I'm on United. The Delta lady just wasn't busy so she
was lending United a hand. After all they did have four people at once
on the four kiosks.
With a 6-hour layover in Dulles awaiting me at the other end of this flight, I'm pretty sure the mass of humanity will become more apparent. So I've mapped out time to finish my Clear card process there with an iris scan and fingerprints, renew my recently lapsed Red Carpet Club membership, and make another attempt to upgrade my DC-Munich flight. I could really use the laptop juice on the flight. When else - On Lotusphere, Travel and What the heck happened to OctoberNovember 11
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Rocky has a great posting describing the difficulty Lotusphere track managers - especially the Best Practices track - have at picking out a few sessions from a pool of really amazing submissions. This mirrors my thoughts on the topic, having received unsolicited abstracts for a conference that doesn't even have a call for them.
The SNAPPS gang will be at Lotusphere as usual, and we're still waiting on a final response on one submission before we post anything about sessions.
Now what happened to the last month!?!? I've been steadfastly working on a "nontechnical" consulting project, advising a client on the state of collaboration, strategies to leverage the technologies available today, and configuring a "what could we do without constraints" lab of sorts. That last bit is fun - and frustrating! I have to say, I am left less than impressed with certain documentation. Lotus and IBM have to start getting this part of the equation right - if I and one of my most trusted and gifted technical colleagues have problems configuring a Lotus product, how can we expect customers to succeed? Enough said, I don't want to get on a rant.
- ArrivederciOctober 17
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A long time passes...and I am almost back.
I've been in Naples, Italy with a client for the past week, and the week
prior was a mass of preparation. So sorry, no blogging. Naples is not the
prettiest city on earth, until you get outside town and focus on the landscape
and Mt Vesuvius. There's quite a bit of trash on the sidewalks, and sidewalk
vendors of trash and trinkets (ladies - remember - Louis Vuitton NEVER
has the initials LV on the seam. guys - don't ask me how I know). An almost-bought,
though, was a 14' fishing pole that collapsed to a size I could have put
in my duffel bag. Then I thought to myself, how funny would that look at
my little fishing lake in Kansas, pulling a sunfish out with a 14' pole.
The taxis are largely run by friendly but overzealous entrepreneurs who, despite millions of English and American visitors each year, haven't managed to learn how we say "Ramada" (so I add "statione centrale" which is a block away). Throughout the week and 10 taxi rides, we've encountered everything from friendly folk to a mad, crazy driver. Their favorite trick is to get you in the car, start driving, then quote a fixed extortionist rate. It's 12.50 Euro fixed rate from the airport to Ramada, so halfway through the ride they quote you 30. Once, we agreed to pay 15 at the end and endured a tirade of "no possible, no possible!", after which the driver tore the bills in half, shoved half of them in my colleague's pocket, took them back "sorry, mi bambino", the - Three SNAPPS Quickr Templates updated - unrelated to 8.1.0.1 Fix pack!September 30
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This afternoon, three of the SNAPPS Quickr
Templates were revved to 8.1.0.1a, after a minor fix to one of the workflow
placebots that had not been updated on August 13 (my fault!). Head off
to the brand new site to grab the downloads for QPresent, QAnnounce, and
QIssues.
Thanks to Troy for the eagle-eye and thanks to CU folks who pointed out the problem they were having. All better now.
- Quickr 8.1.0.1 (aka Fix pack 1) ships: Hold for news on template compatibilitySeptember 30
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Just found out via a Google
Alert that the Quickr team has
shipped "Fix pack 1" which is a roll-up of Hotfixes 1-19 for
Quickr 8.1, plus some 51 additional SPR fixes. This revs your Quickr server
to version 8.1.0.1.
If you are dependent on Quickr Templates from SNAPPS, please hold on for some initial testing from our team. Hotfixes have been known in the past to break functionality. In fact, a private hotfix #22 was slated to go public but we were able to stop the presses, as a minor change broke, well, pretty much everything.
Today just became testing day.
