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Chris Miller (@IDoNotes on Twitter) just tweeted about a service to track your Twitter follower count called TwitterCounter. It seems totally egotistical to me which is probably why I immediately jumped on board. When I scrolled down the page I saw that they display the last 5 people to start tracking their count. See any familiar names?

Today I got a popup letting me know that PGP Desktop for Mac had been upgraded. I downloaded it and looked through the readme to see what was new. Apparently nothing has changed in the last two releases:

I went ahead and upgraded, but I’m not really sure why.

A problem I have been dealing with for quite sometime now, as are many of you, is information overload. With great articles to read from online sources such as developerWorks, Gizmodo, TUAW, PlanetLotus, etc., a proliferation of blog posts that is almost unmanageable, and then introduce into that the constant flood of Twitter and you have crossed over into information gluttony. Having a web-enabled phone can really help. (more…)

I have been meaning to post this SnTT for several weeks now, but have not found the time to finish it. Chris Miller’s post yesterday, Do Your Users Understand a Stoplight Signal?, points out the new and improved quota reporting in the 8.0.1 mail template and has prompted me to finish this post. Yes, I agree, the new graphical quota reporting is a beautiful thing. But, what to do if you (or your customer) does not use quotas yet wants to provide some type of theoretical limit to their users and display a disk usage meter just like this one for quotas?

If your first reaction is to just throw your arms up in the air and say “Oh, come on! Just implement the quotas!” then you would be exactly right. However, that would not make for a very fun SnTT now would it? So, here’s what I did: (more…)

Deja vu?  Not exactly.  More like stupid user.  In this case, that would be me.  I accidentally posted a locally encrypted database up to the Flow project on OpenNTF last week.  The problem has been fixed, so if you downloaded v1.0 Beta 2 last week please try again.

This latest release of Flow fixes a bug that was causing rich-text, email, and plain-text documents to be saved and/or sent even if no events or errors had been logged. This resulted in a log document containing nothing more than the start/stop time of the application. If you always want a log document to be saved regardless to whether any events or errors are written, you must log at least one event to the log. It is recommended that the event be logged as LOG_LEVEL_MINIMAL to ensure that it is written regardless to the global logging level of the log engine.

Thanks to reader Mark who reported the issue.

Yesterday Bear McCreary, composer of the music for Battlestar Galactica, conducted a live performance of his music at The Roxy in West Hollywood. The performance was nothing less than outstanding. How you take music written for a full orchestra and condense it down to twelve musicians (plus one singer for a couple songs) I don’t know, but it worked.

The opening act was McCreary’s younger brother Brendan McCreary. Those familiar with the BSG music will know Brendan’s voice as the vocalist from the song All Along the Watchtower. He borrowed a few of his brother’s orchestra members to assemble his band (more…)

“Story’s centered on a shy collegian who discovers that life in 1,000 years will be based on his blog.”

Variety.com: MGM Sees Furture in ‘Bobism’

I don’t recall how I came across this film, but Helvetica is a documentary about — what else? — the Helvetica font. On first blush this may sound not only boring, but somewhat of an insane venture. After all, someone made a documentary about a font? Or, as we learn in the film, a typeface. After watching this film with some trepidation, I can say that yes, thankfully, someone made a documentary about a typeface.

In 2007, Helvetica, a typeface created by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann for the Swiss-based Hass Type Foundry, celebrated its 50th anniversary. As part of this celebration, director and (more…)

This recent How I Got Started In Lotus Notes meme has me in a bit of a computer history mood. Actually, I have been in this nostalgic mode for awhile now, but it wasn’t until I was writing about how I got into Notes that I began to think about my first computer.

For me, it was the Commodore VIC-20. I was in junior high taking BASIC programming classes and my parents wanted to encourage my newly forming computer habit because, after all, computers were the wave of the future. They bought me the VIC-20 and my grandfather, an aerospace (more…)