Growing up, I never really appreciated the weather in the DC area.  It wasn't until I moved to the San Francisco Bay area that I longed for the unpredictable storms that came with the hazy, hot, and humid days of July.  These days, I cringe whenever I hear of a strong storm heading towards my house.  Thoughts automatically turn to the damage those winds and hail can do to my garden.  Who'd of thought that I would ever think like this.  On a positive note, I have had my first sighting of a tomato turning red in the garden, so things should definitely be much better shortly.

If a page doesn't come up in a search on Google, does it really exists?  I was trying to find the site for our neighborhood pool and drew a blank in Google.  My wife was able to find it using ViewManager.  Not sure what to make of that.

If you are in IT and you egosurf in Google and come up with nothing, should you be worried?  I have tried to track down some people I used to work with at different companies and have not had much success.  And these are people who are at least as senior as I am and ones I would expect to have a presence on the 'net.  What would you think of a perspective hire for a senior position if you Googled their name and didn't find them any where?  Does it detract from their ability to be taken seriously as a top level professional?

Ran into a limitation of Excel 2003 this week.  It seems that even though you can store up to 32K characters in a single cell, the program will only display and print the first 1K characters.  And here I thought that Notes' 16K/64k limits were a pain.

Andy's done another fine job, this time with extending OpenLog. 

A comment on CodeStore pointed to a new Notes.INI setting for 7.0.2, HTTPMultiErrorPage.  This setting allows you to create custom 404 pages for non-nsf based elements on your Domino server.  Sometimes it's more important to read the comments than it is to read the actual blog entry.

It looks as though Exchange 2007 wasn't exactly the big step forward that Exchange Admins were hoping for.  In fact, if this entry is correct, admins are going to have to wait for SP1 for a fully baked version of Exchange.

I love it when I find out nuggets like this about the Notes client.  Should be really helpful when debugging an agent or monitoring a design refresh.

This essay on how developers should approach writing code is dead on.  Some of the best developers I know write the least amount of code and spend more time talking than coding.

Finally, this WTF example reminds me of the difference between MS developers and Notes/Domino developers.  Namely, that security is not an after thought.