Just a reminder that the first in our series
of free webinars begin tomorrow with a Lotusphere 2010 review.  If
you didn’t make it Lotusphere and/or want our opinions on some of the announcements
made, click here.

"While you are here, can you take
a look at this."

Prepare to make a stand or own a problem.

Yup… the planning has begun for ILUG2010.
 Details are still very rough, but here are some starters:

• It will be in November 2010.  Not
  our usual May, but personal reasons make May a bad choice.

• It will be 3 days long
• It will be multi track
• We will require sponsors
• The usual suspects have signed up to
  help out.

• It will be a lot of fun
• It is not for profit
• It will be free to attend
• We will need speakers
• Casual and technical mood is mandatory
• Bad language is encouraged
• There will be beer

  We will firm up on the details in the
  very near future (hopefully end of next week) with sponsor information
  etc.  One thing we wanted to ask the crowd was about venue.  Dublin
  or Belfast.

  Dublin:

• Eileen lives near there
• I am from there
• Fantastic city
• Cheap airport
• Not as cheap to stay in (but cheaper
  then last time)

• Big city
• Great weekend venue
• Metric shitload of bars
• Metric shitload of history
• Metric shitload of things to do

  Belfast:

• I live there (i.e. I’m being lazy and
  it suits me)

• It’s somewhere new
• 2 airports
• Cheaper then Dublin
• Fantastic city
• Great weekend venue
• Metric shitload of bars
• Metric shitload of history (wanna see
  where the Titanic was built?)

• Metric shitload of history
• Metric shitload of things to do

  Any thoughts from anyone?  Would
  you like somewhere new but still in Ireland?  (No politics or history
  lessons please – we live here).  What do you think?

The man that gave me MFCK at Macworld. Brilliant.

This has been on my todo list for months.

(Dons flameproof clothing)

Notes is a great product. Notes is a big, heavy client product. What is it like to load on a Mac? Take a look at the video below. I’m not concerned that it takes 40 seconds to load up fully. I just want it to load in the background.

Filmed at LoLA last year.

Tweeted by Michael

It’s
worth a look.  Use sound.  Forgive me.

Jason Hook recommended
Magic Prefs by Apple.
 If you have a magic mouse, install it.  It makes it much more
functional.

With the year that is in it, I am keeping
gadget spending to a total (read:zero) minimum.   I have been dubious
about my "mighty mouse" from apple for quite a while.  The
right click works fine, but the scroll wheel sticks way too often.  I
was just tired of cleaning the bloody thing out.  Well today, the
mouse just froze, forcing me to close a shit load of apps and vms, links
and remote sessions to reboot.  I had enough.  To the Apple store.

I didn’t want to waste money on a mouse,
and the magic mouse has less functionality then the mighty one.  
Aside from that, I’m old fashioned and did not want wireless tools.  But
now I own one.  It feels, and works nice.  No expose button but
I will live.  Apparently it is very addictive so time will tell.