Any Disney employees from the former USSR?

I am honestly not sure how many Lotuspheres I’ve attended so far. And each Lotusphere, of course, means a visit to Disney World. The name tags worn by Disney employees, in addition to the employee’s first name, also list his or her place of birth. In all these years, I’ve been [...]

Lotusphere corrupted my brain

I came across this blog post on Gizmodo.com. The post compares MacBook Air benchmark results. A little ways down, the post includes a table comparing some basic functions between different versions of MacBooks.

Look at the last column… It truly took me several moments to realize that it is not talking about Lotus [...]

WordPress.com offers 3GB of space to users

More space, more space, I’ve got more space… I knew I made the right choice when I picked WordPress.com as the place for my blog. Logging on for the first time since the start of Lotusphere, I discovered that while I was busy soaking up whatever it is that you soak up during [...]

Unwinding after the Lotusphere

I’m writing this in my hotel room at the Beach Club. Lotusphere 2008 is over, it ended yesterday and I had a whole day to unwind and digest the last 5 days. Now I’m feeling the pull of the keyboard and some strange obligatory need to join the plethora of Lotus Notes and [...]

Lotus’ spell checker

Now that version 8 of Lotus Notes and SameTime has an inline spell checker, I am constantly wondering who puts together their dictionary files. There are some rather strange omissions from the dictionary.
I suppose I’m OK with my name, Kassabov, not being there. I’m even flattered that it suggests that I correct [...]

I just had to mention this

OK, I just had to mention this. Don’t ask how I got to reading about 8 important consumer trends for 2008. Not being a marketer, I was somewhat lost in the terminology but when I got down to this, I was blown away. A €2.17 roll of toilet paper that [...]

The IT department is dead, long live utility computing

I came across this interesting article in Network World talking about a new Nicholas Carr book, which predicts that utility computing will replace internal IT departments. I haven’t read the book, but, according to the Network World review, it sounds that the book predicts as more and more applications move “into the [...]

Long live Blu-ray

It looks like my decision has been made for me. Now that I’m a proud owner of an HDTV, I was considering upgrading my DVD player and trying to decide between HD-DVD, Blu-ray or a simple Upscan player. And today, “based on a breaking release, Warner Bros. Entertainment will be releasing its high-definition [...]

My new TV

This day has finally come — I got my new TV. For the longest time I’ve been considering getting a new TV to replace my 9-year-old 32″ JVC. Watching CSI-Miami on my cousin’s Samsung this summer was really the last straw that made me decide that this Christmas I’ll be getting a new [...]

Which flavor of Notes 8 are you running?

I was talking with a friend and a business partner whose company has developed a sidebar plug-in for Lotus Notes 8.  He asked if I was running 8 and jokingly I told him that I prefer the non-eclipse version, as the Java version is sloooooooow on my Dell 505 with 1GB of RAM. To my [...]