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I'm slightly biased, but the company I work for is hiring a Domino/Network Administrator.   If you're interested after reading the description below, contact me and I'll pass your interest along. Position Description: The successful candidate will be responsible for ongoing development and administration of our web server farm and office server infrastructure including network and workstation hardware/software. You need to be skilled in setup and support of TCP/IP networks, firewall, back-up/recovery solutions and server o/s including Windows/Linux as well as web servers such as Tomcat.  Your background includes education/certification in network infrastructure, security and operating systems.  Knowledge of Lotus Domino and database operating environments would be an asset.  Exposure to an AIX environment would also be helpful. If you thrive on a wide variety of challenges, are interested in leading new initiatives, learning and applying new technologies ...

I found this in a log file today while looking for something else: 01/20/2011 09:35:27 AM  Database collection open error: e:LotusDominoDatanames.nsf: View is damaged.  Please rebuild it (by pressing shift-F9 or running UPDALL -r). 01/20/2011 09:35:27 AM  Error updating view '#445806' in names.nsf: View is damaged.  Please rebuild it (by pressing shift-F9 or running UPDALL -r). #1.  I love that they told me how to fix it. #2.  I wish I knew which view that actually is.  I don't have an numbered views in my address book. Once I find out how to translate the view number to a view name, I'll let you know here.

Up for our first port destination: Nassau in the Bahamas. We actually bought a shore excursion for Nassau.  A glass bottom boat tour.  If I had to pick a word to describe it, it would be "meh".  It was a 90 minute tour that consisted of a slow drive through the harbour where the "narrator" talked to us about who used to live in which house along the shore.  Really, I'm here for the glass bottom part, not for who used to live where.  The glass bottom part was okay, but consisted of us standing around 2 viewing "boxes" with 4 windows at the bottom of each.  What we didn't realize is that they were throwing bread overboard upstairs while we were downstairs to bring the fish in.  So, we weren't really seeing it "au natural".  And due to over crowding of the tour, we ended up sitting and waiting while the other half of the passengers got their chance to see.  We then took a return trip through the harbor. The Toad enjoyed the looking at th...

This is it.  Today we start on the next phase of our vacation and board the cruise ship. I'm looking forward to it, but at the same time am a little anxious.  I've never done anything like this before. We were up early this morning and did the last of our packing before heading to the lobby to catch the cab.  Despite asking about car seats for the cab, the cab didn't arrive with them.  Thank goodness that traffic was light.  I was rather nervous about the drive to the port and didn't think about the fact that the camera was in the trunk of the cab, and not in my pocket.  I wish I'd had it with me. We got out of the cab, settled our account and looked around at the people everywhere and had no idea what to do next.  Turns out that there are people in white hats who take your luggage for the baggage check.  I'm glad I arrived at the port with our luggage already tagged. After someone checking our boarding passes and security, we had someone check ou...

This morning, we actually slept in.  I was the first one up and went across the street on a coffee run.  McDonalds coffee really isn't all that bad, and it is much better than the in room coffeemaker. We took today as a relaxation day.  We went for a walk around the neighbourhood, picked up some postcards and went for a walk on the beach. After a lunch of sandwiches, we put the Turtle down for a nap and I took the Toad to the beach. An afternoon of watching a movie on the Disney channel, a trip to the grocery store for tomorrows lunch and some veggies and we called it a day. A few observations: People, especially men, should not wear thongs to the beach.  This is even more important if the thong wearer has a lot of body hair. Although we now have credit cards with a chip in Canada, I have yet to come across a single credit card machine down here that uses the chip. I was reminded today about the tide, both high, and low.  No wonder the water level at the beach s...

This morning, we actually slept in. I was the first one up and went across the street on a coffee run. McDonalds coffee really isn't all that bad, and it is much better than the in room coffeemaker. We took today as a relaxation day. We went for a walk around the neighbourhood, picked up some postcards and went for a walk on the beach. After a lunch of sandwiches, we put the Turtle down for a nap and I took the Toad to the beach. An afternoon of watching a movie on the Disney channel, a trip to the grocery store for tomorrows lunch and some veggies and we called it a day. A few observations: People, especially men, should not wear thongs to the beach. This is even more important if the thong wearer has a lot of body hair. Although we now have credit cards with a chip in Canada, I have yet to come across a single credit card machine down here that uses the chip. I was reminded today about the tide, both high, and low. No wonder the water level at the beach seemed to fluctuate from d...

We got up early this morning all bight eyed and bushy tailed. Actually, we didn't. We stayed in bed until the kids woke us. Once we got up, we ate, got dressed and went back out to catch the 120 bus again, for another quick tour though Miami Beach and across the MacArthur Causeway, getting off on the other side of the causeway from the Miami Children's Museum. It was a long walk around and under the causeway to the museum. All-in-all I was impressed by the museum. In the time we spent there, the Toad rushed from one area to another to see it all. She didn't spend much time sitting still. There was a 'Main Street' area with a bank, doctor/dentist office, and a grocery store. A vet clinic, fire station and a really cool dinosaur area. The dinosaurs were electronic, in other words, they moved. We met a friend of mine at the museum, with his kids. It was great to be able to mix a little bit of work into my vacation. We left the museum, hopped on the 120 bus back to the ...

Got up this morning with thoughts of shrimp.  Not the two we brought with us, they're always on my mind. We headed down to the Bayside shopping district of Miami.  We took the bus to get there, which I looked up on the Miami-Dade transit site, which exclusively uses Google Transit to plot your trip.  It was fairly accurate as to when buses run, but not that accurate as to what buses actually run.  We were looking for the 119 to get us to our destination.  (Only one bus, which was great.)  Never did see a 119, we did on the other hand find a 120 Beach MAX, which I later discovered to mean it is the equavalent of an express bus, meaning it skips a large number of stops that other buses will service. The trip on the bus costs $2 per person.  That worked out to $4 each way, or about 1/10th the cost of a cab ride.  (I called around first.)  And, I learned something.  While in Ottawa, it is fairly common to see children in a backpack carrier, ...

So far, this trip has been eventful.  Let's recount the events so far: We flew into Fort Lauderdale last night (Dec 28, as this isn't getting posted until we return from the trip), the flight was uneventful, aside from the capitan singing to us at random intervals.  (Much appreciated, and I seem to think I may have flown with him before.  I love Westjet.)  We picked up our baggage, met the shuttle (Fort Lauderdale Shuttle Inc).  I recommend them, but don't recommend using their website to book anything.  It accepted my booking, but never actually 'placed' the order, making for much confusion the morning of the flight when I called to confirm.  They did offer free car seats (usually a $15-25 charge each at other shuttle places) and they were the least expensive compared to the other shuttle companies I got quotes from. The driver and her fiance were great.  She had most of her facts about the area backwards/confused, and he had no pr...