I am a: Quirky sysadmin. Geek. Gamer. Comic fangirl. My little space, my home on the interwebs. I blog about personal stuffs, work, various coding projects, and anything else I feel like.

I’m a nostalgic woman, sentimental even. I have old programs that I refuse to replace because they work well and I don’t need anything fancy to replace them. Take EditPad (now EditPad Classic). It was my first MDI text editor. I first started using it back in the late 90s when it was simple postcard […]

We’re so close to sunsetting our Connections environment at work. I figured I would document this here showing how we’ve been monitoring activity in the ailing environment. Our Cognos is disabled, so I have been having to pull this information manually. Twice weekly, I pull the the most recent activity in Communities and Activities, coupled […]

These are snippets of code I’ve used recently for finding data in our Connections environment at work. Considering IBM’s wikis and other online publications are going down starting after the new year, I thought I’d post here in case they’re needed again. I was tasked with finding a list of the most active activities and […]

I remembered seeing this hit the test servers over the summer and sadly I did not have the time nor energy at the time to play around with it. The new IBM Domino Mobile App (IDMA) for iOS was released to the public yesterday. I saw posts on several IBMers that I follow via RSS […]

Driving home from Oneonta this year was different from previous years. While I still contemplated all of the many things for which I am thankful, my heart hurts for my family. My brother and his wife are divorcing. Being there tonight, I saw some of myself in my sister-in-law and some of my father in […]

Wow, seems like yesterday was New Year’s … and here it is almost Memorial Day. There’s been a ton of changes but I honestly had not felt like writing anything all this time. Work is insanely busy with several projects, one of the biggest is moving some of our business-critical applications from Lotus/Domino to Salesforce. […]