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Discussion/Comments (29):
Nice work.
Posted at 3/14/2004 1:18:57 AM by Ed
Hi, just checking following your comments on Steve's site re the new upgrade. Your blog doesn't render properly in Safari - leaving a large blank space at the top of the first entry.
Happy blogging with Notes!
Posted at 4/26/2004 12:36:29 AM by Peter Cox
Nice Website.. I really loved the Weather Cone!
Posted at 5/18/2004 12:32:01 PM by Tom Baunsgard
Erick
I use an iMac at home, running OS X 10.3 and Safari browser.
When I access your weblog, the content div appears after the right hand div rather than alongside it.
I imagine it must be a stylesheet problem as you are using the same blogging tool as me and several others, and they all appear OK.
Apart from that, nice site.
Guff
Posted at 6/9/2004 1:02:50 AM by Gareth Howell
Thanks, Gareth, for your feedback, and the precise description. I'll have someone look into this and we will see if we can get it straightened out. - Eric
Posted at 6/9/2004 8:20:10 AM by Eric Mack
Eric,
I think your site is great. I really like the layout and I like the fact it seems to run on Domino. Is this a custom Domino app you have developed or is it available commercially?
Thanks in adnace for any insight
Steve
Posted at 8/4/2004 4:40:20 AM by Steve
Steve, this site, and the 3 others that are in the works, including eProductivity.NET, are all built using the DominoBlog Template from ProjectDX.
(Http://www.dominoblog.com)
Steve Castledine is the author and has done a great job. I've been sure to make lots to contributions to help Steve along the way.
Try it out, you won't look back.
Eric
Posted at 8/4/2004 10:02:03 AM by Eric Mack
Hello and Thanks for the Nice Live View!
The Team of AbcWebcam.com ;-)
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Posted at 10/5/2004 9:45:42 AM by http://www.abcwebcam.com/
On the main ICA web page : http://weather.ica.com/
In the second column for Dew Point, you have percentage for units instead of F degrees. It's correct in the columnar readout though. Cheers.
Posted at 10/9/2004 4:18:34 PM by Keith Myers
I can't see the central pane either - using Firefox 1.0 and Windows 2000.
Does show up with IE.
Posted at 11/30/2004 1:07:02 PM by Dave Gill
I love your site. I am strongly considering moving to PMC, I love it there and am desiring a more quiet, wholesome life for myself and my kids. Although I have done alot of research of the area, I am wondering what your opinion is of the local schools as I am a single Christian Mom, my kids are ages 14 & 11. I'm glad to see you are so involved in the church there. I have attended 3 times now and love the services and activities there. So, as a Christian parent, you can understand where I'm coming from and I would love your opinion on living in PMC. I will not have the opportunity to homeschool, being single, I will have to work. Maybe you have some ideas in that repsect as well? Any comments, help, etc. would be very much appreciated. In His name, Carrie K.
Posted at 1/31/2005 10:20:49 AM by Carrie
Hi There,
Good Web Site.
Tried using your contact button but it will not work for me so apologies for adding this to the feedback page.
I noticed that you looked at mNotes a while back, I was interested to know how you got on with it, especially any comparison to i-Anywhere's Pylon offering. We use mNotes already and we've no complaints but we're being badgered to look at i-Anywhere.
Cheers and thanks for your time
Kristina
Posted at 7/13/2005 7:37:44 AM by Kristina Bisseker
Kristina, I use and have deployed both products. They each have their strengths and weaknesses. As you know, mNotes has a much richer client for the PDA, with support for full folder management on the mobile device.iAnywhere has a powerful server side component with many features for large or flexible deployments of multipel databases.I hope this helps.
Eric
Posted at 7/23/2005 4:01:21 PM by Eric Mack
I just found the site and I've been listening with interest to your podcast on your Paperless Challenge.
There is a picture of you with your Tablet and it looks like it rests on a stand; is this proprietary to your machine or did you find it somewhere? I have one of the early Compaq TC1000's and using it for notetaking in an office can be a bit of a challenge. Looks like the stand can be helpful?
Posted at 1/25/2006 1:34:28 PM by Kenneth Banks
I am a book man. I suffer from what I call Picard's Syndrome. (Search with Google.) I am looking for ways to break out, and have been since 1980. So far, no soap.
I do not want to read a scanned-in book on-screen, for all the usual reasons. So, how do I get away from yellow highlighters (I hate fluorescent yellow -- it fades away under incandescent light), post-it notes, and marginal notations in ink? How do I transfer my paper-based notes into a digital format, with EverNote or OneNote allowing me to retrieve the data?
I guess I must find a way to go from voice-recognition software (take my notes verbally as I read) to EverNote or OneNote. Have you done this yet? Or anyone else?
Posted at 2/19/2006 3:03:34 PM by Gary North
Erik,
I stumbled on your site by doing searches on wildfires. I take my kids camping at McGill on Mt.Pinos several times each summer and I noticed a few days ago smoke blowing into the high desert (I live in Rosamond, CA. by Lancaster/Palmdale/Edwards AFB), so I needed to find where the fire was.
I started looking around and think this is a cool website. Good job!
I was wondering if you are hosting this out of your house through DSL, or you have a hosting service?
I have a couple of websites running out of my house. I use Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL datbase to get the job done.
I am still developing one of them, it is for people to get info on day hiking and backpacking in SOCAL. It isn't no where near being completed, but I do have a few pages up if interested. www.gotakeahike.org
My other website is www.planetxapps.com
My discussion forum running MySQL on the backend is www.planetxapps.com/forum/index.php
These sites are ran out of my house using an old P166mhz with 128mb of ram and 2.1 gb hd. There version of Linux I run is really light weight and brings new life to older systems.
Sorry for the long comment, just thought you have an interesting background and thought you might be interested.
Thanks for your time,
Daniel Strong
Posted at 6/21/2006 7:15:25 AM by Dan
Hello, Dan.
Small world. I lived in Rosamond, many years ago, when I worked at the Flight test Center at Edwards Air Force Base.
This web site is running on a hosted domino as a notes/domino application. The beauty is that the entire web site resides in a single database file! The site is powered by DominoBlog, an amazing content management template for Notes & Domino.
Eric
Posted at 6/21/2006 10:43:03 PM by Eric Mack
Erik,
I work at Edwards right now. I work as a computer programmer/Oracle DBA type. I have worked out here for 12 years, lots of fun.
I know nothing about DominoBlog, I need to look it up. Sounds interesting. I would like to add a feature like this to my website soon as I get it 90% finished, which is probably a month off.
Thanks for the info.
Dan
Posted at 6/22/2006 6:16:15 AM by Dan
Came across your blog today and was wondering if you have any suggestions for me... I've been using the free mind mapping tool FreeMind for some time now and have been very happy with it. THe only problem is that it is a desktop tool and does not easily travel with me as I go from Home PC to work laptop, etc. So I started looking for web-based mind mapping tools. The only one that I have come across is mayomi, but that appears to be a most dead project. Do you know of any other services (free or commercial) that offer a reasonably effective mind mapping tool in a web-based or web-accessible form? Any suggestions appreciated.
-jason
Posted at 8/25/2006 9:49:42 AM by Jason Buberel
Great site. If you like MindManager you'll love Mindsystems ThemeReader.
www.mindsystems.com
It creates instant thematic mind maps of unstructured documents.
Arnold
Posted at 4/20/2007 7:31:37 PM by Arnold Villeneuve
When will your site be current again. Weather and pics from June 23, 2007, aren't very helpful.. ;~}>
Thanks.........
Terry Waggoner
A PMC Weekender
Posted at 7/10/2007 10:08:49 AM by Terry Waggoner
I liked the site when it worked... where are you Eric? What's up? No updates for months now... weather is 67 Every day????? Are you still among the living? Moved back to the Big City???
Posted at 8/30/2007 3:23:52 PM by sharon biddle
Eric has been "on the road" for most of the summer, thus having time to fix the weather info hasn't been something he has had. In my experience over the past 14 years, from June -September, the weather up here rarely changes. Oh, a little warmer some days, but it has all been pretty predictable over the last decade.
Posted at 8/30/2007 4:20:06 PM by Kathy Mack
Eric, come on over to the Mindmapping 2.0 site and let us know your thoughts on this subject...
Posted at 9/2/2007 5:05:45 AM by Jonathan Sapir
I used to really enjoy the weather conditions and hope you get that working again soon.
Dave
Posted at 9/19/2007 12:15:58 PM by Dave
Dave, the weathercam was damaged by lightning. I hope to replace the PMC Weather camera as funds and time permit. - Eric
Posted at 9/25/2007 8:10:03 PM by Eric Mack
This is such a clever one! And 'quite' a blog!
I do love Skype too!
Being productive and serving God at the same time. What should I say but..
"Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over."
"Don't let what you see distract you from your vision. "
"the Cubbies"
"bicycle wheel"
and my favorite of favorites---"the 50th wedding anniversary!"
Am now changing 50 first dates on my list!! Hahaha! Sorry can't help it.. SooOooOoooOooo nice! Thanks!
Posted at 11/26/2007 5:52:03 AM by Gladish
hi eric! i love the things you shared during the conference here in manila. I am fun of collecting gadgets. I purchased SE P1i two days ago. It is smartphone actually. I wanted to install a bible application but I can't install it in my phone. I searched olivetree.com but I don't know how to install in my phone the free downloads. Can you help me do it?
Thank you.
Posted at 12/23/2007 8:18:12 AM by Nelson baquel
Nelson, I'm unfamiliar with the smartphone you mention. In any case, the first step is to find out what operating system your phone uses (e.g. WindowsMobile, Palm, or Symbian) and then check with the software vendor to see if they have a suitable version.
Good luck!
Eric
Posted at 12/26/2007 5:20:10 PM by Eric Mack