Big Mutant Blog

OK, Here We GO!!!!

This is my favorite time of year.... Opening Day!!

My favorite Major League Baseball team is the Cincinnati Reds, I lived there for 20 years and cheered them on every year. This year opening day is against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

This year we are breaking in a new coach, new to Cincinnati . . . not the game. Dusty Baker comes to us from the Chicago Cubs, so hopefully he can do for us what he did for them.... oh, wait a minute maybe we don't want that ;-)(sorry Cubs fans).

Today's opener feature Brandon Webb for the cubs and Aaron Harang for Your Cincinnati REDS!!!

My only regret is that I couldn't get back to Cincinnati to attend the game. So fire up the brats grab a cold one and let's get this party started!

Gametime 2:10PM EST

OK, now I can hang with the cool kids!

Thanks to Mr. Chris Toohey inviting me, I have now been exposed to another aspect of social networking -- Twitter!  And by the looks of it I am the last one in the world to do so.  :-S

I have added some of you to my "Follow" list (sounds kind of like stalking) and will be adding more.  So if you want to find me (besides here) drop by https://twitter.com/BigMutant.

Later

After reading Karl-Henry Martinsson's blog entry on creating a map to places that you have visited, I decided to make my own:

(United States, Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovania, Croatia)

Yea,I don't get out of the US too much ;-). Expanding on that, I decided to zoom in on the individual areas. First, The United States, my home country...

(California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine,Massachusetts,
Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia)

And finally, Europe...

(Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovania, Croatia)

There are still many places that I want to visit, so the map will be changing.

This week I have traveled from Atlanta to Pennsylvania for one of our customers. Now, I really don't mind traveling for our clients but what I really hate is that airlines do not allow for people like me. As you can tell from my byline, I am not a small person (6' 7" and > 300lbs) and this does not make for a comfortable traveling experience.

Whenever I have to fly the only way I get any kind of comfortable seat is if I am able to get an exit seat, bulkhead seat or first class. The first 2 I can only get 1 out of 5 times and as for the third, yeah try getting a customer to fit that bill. I am the person that when you see me on the plane you pray that I don't sit behind you. Once I do my legs are so long that my knees wedge right up to the seat in front of me and I cannot even lower the seat try because my knees are wedged against the hinges. If you ever find yourself in the seat in front of my do not even think about reclining because your seat back will not budge.

Although people do try. I had one flight where the guy thought there was something wrong with his chair and continued to slam his back against the chair and impaling my knees. I finally had to grab the back of his seat and ask him to stop. He turned and asked me to sit back so he could recline his chair (inconsiderate *$#&@*%), I just glared at him and he turned around and I didn't hear another word.

So, until the airlines come up with someway of making the leg room in coach better (yeah, right) I will just slink along with the permanent divots in my knees and suck down the Advil to make the pain go away. Ah, the things I do for our clients.

OK, the rant is over, now back to your regularly scheduled life.

Logged on this morning and when I looked at the count for the YellowBleeders group it was like "Yea, Baby!"

If you still haven't taken advantage of this great feature of BleedYellow, take a look at the instructions here to start.

Thanks Everybody for making it a success!

**UPDATE**
OK, really scary. Shortly after posting this I received an IM from Nathan that we had coincidentally posted the same topic at around the same time, check out Nathan's post here.
I guess great minds really do think alike!

There has been some concern in the community of BleedYellow and logging of Sametime chats. I (amongst others) am here to tell you that Lotus 911 has not, is not and will not log any chats initiated over the im.bleedyellow.com community.

There are extensive and continuos discussions internally of how to provide proof to the community. Stay tuned for more details.

For the official word on this please see the BleedYellow Update blog here.

P.S. - Plus the numbers for happy users cannot lie

OK, this doesn't happen too often.. Administration tips from a developer!

Wait! don't go away so fast!  I used to be part admin as well plus I got the answer to my question straight from one of our authentic Administrators, Chris Whisonant.

This is having to deal with Sametime Communities and Lotus Notes 8.0.1.

After uprading to 8.0.1 I was no longer able to add multiple communities to my embedded Sametime client, It would still connect to my current multiple communities but I could not administer or add anything new. So I contacted a couple of our other Admins who tried to help me out the best he could but we could not find the answer together (none of us is a Sametime expert), so we contacted Chris.

What Chris informed me of was that if the Sametime server that is set as the default does not allow multiple communities, then you will not be able to do any type of administration on your embedded client.  Therefore, I clicked "Reset User..." in the Sametime Preferences (File --> Preferences --> Sametime --> Sametime Preferences) and then  when I logged back in I logged into the BleedYellow Sametime (im.bleedyellow.com) and set that as my default and -- BINGO! -- I could now add a new community.

Here are the before and after settings:

Before		After

The only bad part was that I had to rebuild my contact list for my Non-Bleedyellow group.

Thanks for the help Chris!

OK, I know Guitar Hero has been out for a while and it has been through 3 incarnations, not including advancing to Rock Band, and even though I have been interested in them I have held off on buying any of them... UNTIL NOW!

Activision has just announced that on June 30th (4 days past my birthday ;-) ) they are releasing Guitar Hero Aerosmith!  I love Aerosmith and I am stoked that they are releasing an entire version of GH based on them. I have already pre-ordered it and can hardly wait.

You can "walk this way" (sorry, couldn't resist) to read the interview with Joe Perry and Steven Tyler about working on the game here and see the Activision site for it here.

ROCK ON!



*NOTE TO JIMMY* - Next game night after this is released, OK? :-)