my animals and other friends
After returning from Dublin, I was surprised to hear my Ladies singing a song about a Molly Malone, which I'd never before heard. It appears they heard it from a bus driver in the city of Dublin. A few seconds of research gives me the answer.
Two more stanzas were added to the song by an American parodist in the 1960's, which are probably not included in the dozens of versions of the song that iTunes has to offer. 
I always say: You Get What You Pay For. I have been proven wrong. The event was free of charge, and He who is Small but perfectly formed, She who must be obeyed, the A/V Bloke, She who must also be obeyed, the Token American and The Mad Scotsman did an incredible job in organizing the event and getting excellent speakers to come to Dublin.
The guys and gals who organized the ILUG 2007 not only deserved but also received huge rounds of applause and a standing ovation. I spoke to many people, who were just as impressed as I was on both the organization of the event as well as the quality of the sessions and the speakers.
Both days were fully packed and were thankfully separated by loads of cold Guiness, enabling a total "reset" of the brain before the second day kicked off.
After Daniel Nashed's Demystifying IBM Lotus Domino and SMTP Messaging, I enjoyed hearing about some of the OpenNTF.org work by its founders: Bruce Elgort and Vince Shuurman. That was followed by a kick-ass session by Bill Buchan; I now know why he is called Wild Bill. 
Domino Domain Monitoring with Kathleen McGivney led into a very drunken session called Speed Geeking, which was interesting, funny and must have been quite a load on the speakers shouters.
After said Guiness, my Friday started off with a recap of Last year's Lotusphere with Kristin Keene, followed by an interesting session on Managing Spam with Warren Elsmore. Even though I wouldn't use Domino's built-in facilities (instead relying on Open Source to protect Domino), I listened closely. Sean Burgess presented Extending the New IBM Blogging Template and two IBM chappies then introduced Quickr and Connections. The afternoon followed with Gregory Engels' Pimp My App with Ajax and the best show of the day was Rob Novak's Guiness's Revenge; funny, great demos and, well, Guiness!
The Wow! was in Dublin.
I'm flying to Dublin tonight to attend the Irish Lotus Notes User Group conference on Thursday and Friday.
The conference is packed full of sessions, and the speaker list reads like the who's who of the business.
I'm greatly looking forward to Dublin, even though Nic warns:
careful with the Guiness, although:
Guiness is good for you, look what toucan do for you.
We'll be enjoying the weekend there as well.
Terribly sorry, but I'm on my way to ILUG, so I can't process this request.
From: XXXXXXXXX
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 16:01:37 +0100
To: hostmaster@xxxxx
Subject: Problems: User can't Receive Emails from aaa
Dear System Administrator,
Our company tried to send our newsletter to Mr. yyyy of bbb
who has the email address: yyyy@zzz.com.
This user has specifically asked us to receive our newsletter on date
But we received notification from your system that our newsletter
was rejected as spam (1).
Returned mail details:
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Reporting-MTA: dns;gebsex01.___.intra (2)
Received-From-MTA: dns;gebsmr01.___.dmz
Arrival-Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 20:45:27 +0200
Final-Recipient: rfc822;yyyy@zzz.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
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I would appreciate your help as a matter of the utmost urgency (3)
to correct this situation.
Please add our site222s dedicated ip address : 207.36.ccc.ddd,
mail server ip addresses: 207.234.ccc.ddd, 72.4.ccc.ddd
office ip address : 213.120.ccc.ddd (4),
and put the following email addresses in your white list:
[ long list of addresses removed ]
It'll have to wait, but don't hold your breath though.
From the Lotus Museum, "the world's first virtual museum for software":
