Find your Twitter friends’ friends with Twubble

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Apr 182008
 

I ran across Twubble today. If you like/can’t live without Twitter this is a great tool/website to find your Twitter friends’ friends. It’s written by Bob Lee that works at Google.

If you use Twitter, Twubble can look at your existing friends’ friends and recommend new people for you to follow. It’s a stupid simple idea, but I think the execution and fun factor have won people over.

I wrote Twubble in a couple nights of hacking in bed after the kid went to sleep. I used the latest Google Web Toolkit milestone which supports Java 5 (flawlessly from my experience). I was writing Javascript code (server and client side) for years before I ever got into Java, but I have to say, you’d be crazy to write AJAX apps any other way than GWT nowadays.

Try it out. It’s amazing how many friends you can find by having this tool examining your friends.

My album cover

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Feb 052008
 

As many out there including Adam Gartenberg I have created my own album cover. The instructions are:

  1. Go to Wikipedia’s random article page. The first article you get is the name of your band.
  2. Go to the Random Quotations page. The last four words of the last quote is the album title.
  3. Go to Flickr’s Interesting photo page. Third picture, no matter what it is, is your album cover.
  4. Put it all together to make your album. Either crop it to CD cover size, or just use the raw image itself … the only rule is you’re only allowed to add the album title and artist title.

My random Wikipedia article landed on Battista Dossi, an Italian painter. A great name for a band I think.
My random quote was by L. M. Montgomer, a Canadian novelist that wrote this in 1915:

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

My Flickr photo is taken by ©dinamarie originals. A beautiful photo I now have destroyed by adding my band name and album title.

I hope you like it.

Lotusphere Keynote Bingo!!!

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Jan 182008
 

Rob Novak has created a Lotusphere Keynote Bingo card!

As the Keynote (Opening General Session or OGS in Lotusphere land) progresses, you simply check off the items that really do happen. If you find yourself in the lucky position of having a straight line of five, simply yell out “BINGO!”.

You can download the PDF from his site.

SNAPPS adopts SharePoint

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Oct 092007
 

From Rob Novak’s blog, his original posting can be found here.

So – to recap – we found a massive, hairy, evil monster that can cause pain and most definitely fear in most human beings, especially around the office. So naturally, we named it SharePoint. Here is an actual photo of the beast, taken just this weekend.

Sadly this week, we’re going to kick SharePoint out. Turns out it’s too expensive to keep feeding it, and it really needs a bigger box (probably more than one) and more attention than anybody originally thought. It keeps getting bigger and bigger, and we’re honestly getting more afraid of it every day.

We have a lot of fun at SNAPPS.

g33k Geekmeet in Stockholm

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Sep 282007
 

Troy & Viktor at g33k in Stockholm, SwedenTroy Reimer and I spoke for a couple of hours in front of 30 or so geeks Tuesday night in Stockholm, Sweden. Ekakan sponsored the event and Troy and I had a great time. We spoke about the Lotus Quickr Templates, you can download them here, and about workflow lotusscript, JSON and the Dojo Toolkit. It was great to see some familiar faces from past years when I was working in Sweden but also several from Lotusphere.

Viktor and Troy at Icebar, StockholmBefore the event they took us to Icebar Stockholm. They made an entire bar in ice from the northern part of Sweden. That’s right, they ship the ice down and build the walls, bar and seats out of pure ice.

The pictures are taken by Joachim Dagerot who also together with Niklas Waller has blogged about the event.

30 St Mary Axe

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Sep 202007
 

Warren and Kitty Elsmore, Troy Reimer, Rob Novak and I had the opportunity to visit one of London’s great buildings Tuesday. The Gherkin, as it’s also called after it’s pickle shape, is London’s sixth tallest building with 590 ft (180 m). It’s located in the City of London in the main financial district. The building was designed by Lord Foster and Ken Shuttleworth and constructed by Skanska of Sweden 2001-2004.

The building is closed to the public but we got to visit the building through Matt White who works as a consultant in the building. We had drinks at the very top of the building that overlooks London with spectacular views. You can see for your self.

Lots going on

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Aug 232007
 

It’s been a few days since I wrote a posting. I’ve been really busy with customer work and getting ready for a lot of conferences and events coming up in the next weeks.

First there is Collaboration University for Lotus Notes & Domino in both Kansas City, September 10-12, and in London, September 19-21. On the 22nd Troy Reimer and I travel to Sweden for a couple of days of vacation but also to speak at g33k on the 24th. Ekakan is the host once again for this “Geek Meet”. I know we will have lots of fun there and nice to meet some Swedes I haven’t seen in a long time, or never. It will also be fun to show of Stockholm and Västerås to Troy since he has never been to Sweden. We are spending all day in Stockholm that Monday and I’m thinking that the Wasa museum, Gamla Stan (Old Town) and Skansen will be a great day. If you have any other suggestions please feel free to comment below.

On the 26th and 27th I travel back, first to London then back to Kansas City. Home for 2 days and I’m off to Miami on the 29th for the Advisor Summit. Back home on the 4th of October and there was all September and the beginning of October gone.

See you there.

Alison Krauss and Union Station in concert

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Jun 202007
 

My wife Beth and I saw Alison Krauss and Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas last night at the Starlight Theater in Kansas City, MO. It was great. Beth and I have been big fans of hers for a long time. Her voice is unbelievable. It was a wonderful evening for an outdoor concert. I give the concert and the night 5 stars. Continue reading »

Odiogo podcast on my site

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Jun 152007
 

Today I added a really cool plug-in for my blog. Instant podcast for all my post entries. It is all done by a free service from Odiogo. It adds this image, , at the bottom of each of my posts. When clicked it will read the contents of the post to you. Super cool. It does take a little time for Odiogo’s servers to parse the text and to create the mp3, but if you click on any of the posts below this one it should work. UPDATE: This post can now be heard as well. You can also go to a podcast page with all the latest posts by clicking here .

Enjoy

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