Think about your personal life backup.  Your home movies, the photos of your children.

Are you protected?

The annual Food Aid BBQ is taking place at Festival Plaza, City Hall on Friday, June 1 this year. The BBQ will bring the Ottawa Food Bank that much closer to raising the necessary funds to sustain its beef program for a year.

For only $10, hamburgers prepared by The WORKS will be served alongside chips and a drink from 11AM to 2PM. There will be plenty to see and do at Festival Plaza, with music, a live broadcast by 580 CFRA, and celebrity milking competitions at 10:30 am and 12:30 pm. As well, the Ottawa Food Bank’s Capital Beef Cookbook will be on sale for only $15 along with specialty BBQ aprons to get you ready for Father’s Day and the BBQ season.

Food Aid is a program that provides nutritious protein to those who normally would not be able to afford it. All Food Aid fundraising efforts go towards purchasing and processing beef from local producers. Food Aid is an initiative which boosts the local market for cattle; since the program’s inception in 2005, Food Aid has provided more than 701,500 pounds of local beef to the most vulnerable in our community.

This event is presented by the Ottawa Food Bank in partnership with the City of Ottawa – Rural Affairs Office and several other community partners.

The error occurs on launching the Lotus Notes 8.5.2 client (no designer or admin), and pops up with the error “Error in PNAB Updater constructor: Personal NAB is not open”.

Anyone?  Please?

It creates an interesting visual of your LinkedIn network.

http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com/share/John_Lawren_James/316949539857534123863686369623422544527

I’m participating in this year’s Canadian Cancer Society Relay For Life so that hopefully, someday, my children will never have to go through what I’ve gone through.

http://convio.cancer.ca/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFL_ON_even_?px=4366288&pg=personal&fr_id=10562

As for my wife, she’s doing pretty well.  The surgery went successfully, they removed her thyroid and she’s started what will be a lifetime regime of taking a replacement thyroid hormone.   As for what’s next, now we wait for the rest of the treatment plan.

And celebrate life.

I couldn’t resist walking through the fence and exploring.

Red door: This lead into what once looked to be a chicken coop.

Log Structures: Some of the buildings on the property were the original log structures that probably dated from the original settlement of the property.

The Mow: Traditionally, the mow (pronounced MAU) would have been where the farmer stored his winter hay.

Hand Hewn: Take a close look at the timber structure. All hand hewn wood, wooden pegs rather than nail, and the joists did not even have the bark taken off.

The Loft: In its day, it would have been stacked to the rafters with hay.

Water: These basins would have been added much later to the barn in order to provide the cattle with water.

The House: At many points during its life, it would have rung with laughter.

Mailbox: No mail gets delivered now, and no one picked up the last of the mail to be delivered.

Client reports that they cannot add new emotions to Sametime.

and/or

Client does not have the emoticons palette in the Preferences menu.

Solution

1. Close the Lotus Notes client.
2. Copy the contents of the <Data Dir>\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.palettes\palettes folder to somewhere safe.   This will allow the user to keep any existing emoticons.
3. Delete the contents of the <Data Dir>\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.palettes\palettes folder.
4. Launch Lotus Notes.  The emoticons preferences will be back.