02/11/2013

Fat man walking...all for a good cause.

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It's time for you to reach into your pockets and sponsor me.  Perhaps you've used our free plug-ins, perhaps you've used our free Sametime admin tools, it's time to pay up.  Now it's not like that crazy sponsorship thing where all I had to do was shave my head and paint my face blue, this one actually involves some serious preparation and training. We managed to raise close to $3,000 dollars for the head shave, so really hoping people will delve deep for this effort to smash that amount.

In May along with a number of friends, I will be taking part in the Domino Dander for Dosh.  The hike will take place in May, and involves hiking from one side of Scotland* to the other along the Great Glen way, which is 80 miles over 4 days.  I will not be along, there is a team of us doing it.

It's all for a a very worthy cause and is the Children's Hospice Association Scotland, currently my donation page shows zero donations, which lets face it, is embarrassing.  So please please sponsor me, if you don't want to support the charity, just think of the pain I will be in after walking 80 miles in 4 days, and the pleasure you will get from knowing I am in such pain, surely that is worth something?

My individual sponsorship page is here:
http://www.justgiving.com/Carl-Tyler

You can find out more about the charity, our route and the team of hikers here:
http://slightlydoolally.com/d4d/

Thank you for your support, every little bit helps.!

* All travel expenses are met by myself, no sponsorship money is used towards anything but the CHAS charity.

UPDATE: I have agreed with a friend, that if I raise more than 2k I will do the hike in a Kilt and Pith helmet.

02/11/2013

An overview of the Plantronics Calisto 620

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Similar to the other post earlier today, this overview is of the Plantronics Calisto 620

02/11/2013

An overview of the Phoenix Quattro 3

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I posted a video overview of the Phoenix Quattro 3 to YouTube.

02/06/2013

IBM Connect Timelapse video

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I put a GoPro on top of our booth at IBM Connect and put it on an egg timer to do the rotation.

02/06/2013

IBM Connect 2013 Slides and flying

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Here are the slides that William Holmes and I presented at IBM Connect 2013 for session AD109.



This is the sample file I showed for having a button appear if a user, or number of users are online or offline (right click on link and choose save as).
SupportRep.html

Other sample files are in this zipfile  (right click on link and choose save as).
AD109 Sample Files.zip

Other Connect 2013 stuff.
As many know, I decided to fly myself down to Orlando this year.  So I left with a temperature of -5F/-20C and landed the next day to temperatures of 75F/24C, Quite a change, the engine was actually configured for the colder temperatures, so started to run a little hot by the time we were in Florida.  Total time to fly down was 10.6 hours, with two stops, one in Virginia and one in Marion, South Carolina.  Total Miles travelled was 1226 Miles.  Skyvector Route

On Thursday afternoon, I flew down to a friends in Naples from Orlando, and started the long flight back on Friday morning, for arrival in New Hampshire Saturday afternoon., with a stop over in Marshfield, MA to drop off my friend who flew back with me.   So with the extra miles down to Naples, the return flight was 1,572 miles in 14 hours.  Skyvector Route

We flew the VFR corridor up the Hudson River coming back, and the weather was beautiful as can be seen in this video.