My current personal phone is the Palm Treo 755p. This replaced my Treo 600 when it finally gave up. Since that time I've been in the search for a case that I liked.

I started off with a flip lid leather case, the Sena Cases MagnetFlipper. This was something like what I had on the 600, except this one flips from the bottom instead of the top.

In theory this seemed to be a good idea, but in practice it pretty well got annoying really quick. The magnet isn't strong enough to hold it fast so the slightest bump and the lid flops down. Can you say walking in and out of an airplane? Yep, every single time. The other thing was that like many of these cases it doesn't provide protection over all corners of the device. So a drop usually results in a scratch of some sort.

So off I went looking for something else. The idea of a holster style case interested me, but I really wanted to see it close up before I bought. Most of the Sprint stores or any other cell phone store are pitiful when it comes to case selection. Most mall retailers aren't much better.

Enter the Palm Store. I happened by one in Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL). Terminal B I believe it was - but the airport website has a nice search function for the shops there. The Palm Store has a wide variety of cases, they're for Palm devices of course, and lucky me - they had the one I was looking for.

So ABC News and other outlets are reporting that the State of North Carolina will offer replacement license plates to residents who were issued a plate with the letter combination: WTF

Now, for those of you out there who aren't familiar with the text messaging lexicon...those letters spell out 'what the..." well you figure out the rest for yourself. : )

While I can see how some folks might find this objectionable, much like the friend of ours who was recently issued a plate containing the letter combination 'DIK' - personally I'd be all over this thing, especially considering how driving here is South Florida. WTF is a perfectly normal reaction to what all goes on down here.

Pretty funny stuff.

A few months ago, Vowe published his 10 common beliefs in the Domino community.

So, in the interest of equal time, here is my list for the Microsoft community:


1. It is fair and valid to compare Notes R5 to Outlook 2007.

2. If a feature of Notes does not work as expected, Notes sucks. If a feature in Outlook does not work as expected, the user needs training.

3. Microsoft is the only valid choice because they will "still be around"

4. Everyone wants Outlook

5. Sharepoint is free

6. MS Office Open XML (OOXML) should be an international standard

7. There have been no updates to Lotus Notes since R5

8. Microsoft has 98% of the messaging/collaboration market

9. Exchange clustering works just fine, thank you

10. The LotusNotessucks website is/was a good, accurate reference

NBC journalist Tim Russert died today from an apparent heart attack. He was 58.

I know I'll miss Tim's passion for political reporting, the likes of which no other reporter can match. The multiple white boards showing all of the possible iterations of results were always a treat.

This was Tim's season. Elections, politics in full force. It really is a shame he won't be here to tell us about it.

So long Tim, it's been a distinct pleasure.

In order to combat comment spam, I'll be implementing a verfication system soon which means you'll need to enter a code to verify you're not a bot before posting. Sorry but that's how it goes with comment spam getting more frequent.

Right now I am also disabling comments after some period of time, since threads get old anyway and it makes maintenance easier if commenting is disabled.

Scott Dixon of Target Chip Ganassi Racing wins the 92nd Indianapolis 500.

The weather was perfect, and we were treated to a great day. There was no question Scott Dixon was the absolute class of the field today. In fact he was pretty much all month. In my mind he was the #1 contender for this year.

One of the passes of the day was Vitor Meira's bold move going into Turn 1 on a restart that had Dixon and himself slingshot past another car and Meira then slingshot around Dixon. What a move!




The race of course wasn't without incident, and we were especially disappointed to see Sarah Fisher crash out when she was collected in Tony Kanaan's accident. Not that she was in the lead or fighting for the lead but she did already have a bit of a hard day and it would have been nice to see her finish.

I was disappointed to see Graham Rahal crash out, but a few of the ChampCar transplants did perform well, and Indy rookie Ryan Hunter-Reay had a solid top 10.

More pics and other things to come before the IndyCars head to Milwaukee next weekend.

Nonetheless, great day for Scott, congratulations to a great racer.

Today the world converges at the corner of 16th Street & Georgetown Rd in Speedway, Indiana. Indy is by any measure and despite any other track's attempts to claim otherwise...the Racing Capital of the World.

There's nowhere I'd rather be today as we get ready for the 92nd Indianapolis 500 mile race. For now, as I type this I sit here watching the Formula 1 Monaco GP - only made interesting by the fact that it's been raining.

But the focus today - as it should be - is on Indy. In just a few hours time, 33 drivers representing 10 countries (the most of which are the US at 13, Brazil at 7 and Great Britian at 4).

Temperatues are cool this morning, but the sun is shining and weather forecast says we should be beautiful at race time, a stark comparison to what we saw last year with rain shortening the race.

This weekend has been a busy one, Friday was Carb Day, which sadly was cut short by rain. But as I've said before, rain on nearly ever other day in May except race day is ok with me. The cars had maybe 15 minutes of practice. Good thing 31 of the 33 managed to get out to do some leak testing & a few fast laps.

After some shopping we decided to leave around 2 PM and head to the annual memorabilia show at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. If you're in Indy on this weekend, and you're a race buff, you absolutely must go. With vendors selling everything from old race tickets, programs from the early days of the 500, bronze & silver badges from days past, crew shirts, driving suits & helmets, there's plenty to look at.

Saturday was as usual, the autograph session, driver's meeting and 500 Festival Parade, followed by dinner with some friends of ours from IU.

I managed to get a few needed signatures, Graham Rahal on the St Pete event hat, Milka Duno, Bruno Junqueria, Vitor Meira. I also had Sarah Fisher sign another photo for me, but part of this was that I wanted to add Regina & I to the list of those contributing to her race fund. We really believe in what she's doing and support Sarah all the way.

If you'd like to help out, they have an address you can send your support to: http://www.sarahfisher.com/5-12-08Donations.pdf

So now it's 10 AM and time to get ready to head off to the track. I'll post photos from the autograph session, parade later.

Since my division's annual partner conference is this coming week in Indianapolis, I decided to come up early and go to qualifications for the Indy 500 this weekend.

Saturday was a cool but mostly sunny day, and after some early AM track drying from rain the night before, cars went out on practice runs for a few hours before qualifying was scheduled to start at noon ET.

I took some time in the morning to do a bit of window shopping, with a plan to get some of our souveneir shopping completed this weekend so there's less to do on Race Weekend. Buying would mostly wait until later in the day since I don't need to add more things to carry around outside my camera gear.

I found a nice spot to hang out for qualifications to start, a good angle down on the track with no obstructions. Of course my selection was fairly popular, a good number of other people found the same spot.

During the morning practice there were several very impressive speeds recorded: Marco Andretti - 228.318 mph; Dan Wheldon - 227.223; Ryan Briscoe - 227.153; Tomas Scheckter - 227.015. Truth be told though several of these were with a tow, so they likely won't hold up on a single car run.

This year's qualifying process is a bit different, thirty-one drivers made attempts (23 recorded four-lap runs), but there were only 11 spots available on this first day of qualifying. The idea is to go at it again for another 11 spots on today, Sunday, May 11th...that is if the rain stops and they get the track dried off. In the meantime I sit here going through pictures from yesterday, watching the Formula 1 race from Turkey. We'll see what things look like when the F1 race is over.

Saturday wasn't without incident as we had a few early spins by AJ Foyt IV, and Bruno Junqueira, both of whom kept the car off the wall. Later in the day Ryan Hunter-Reay wasn't so lucky. Ryan had been bumped out of the 11-car 1st day field and was trying to get himself back in. The back end of the car snapped out, sending him into the wall. The car actually damaged the SAFER barrier, which needed to be welded back into shape.



Several drivers looked to be ready to make late day second runs in a bid for Pole. Marco Andretti rolled the dice, improved his position by one spot, but failed to reach the front row. He starts at the inside of row 3, 7th position.

At the end of the day, the Scott Dixon's 226.366 mph run, set roughly around 4 pm, held up to win the pole position for the 92nd Indy 500. Congratulations Scott!



Scott's teammate Dan Wheldon and Team Penske's Ryan Briscoe finish the front row. Two-time winner Helio Castroneves will start on the inside of Row 2, with Danica Patrick and Tony Kanaan.

Andretti Green teammates Marco Andretti and Hideki Mutoh qualified in Row 3, with Panther Racing's Vitor Meira between them. Ed Carpenter and Tomas Scheckter filled the final two qualifying spots.

An overall good day for The Captain, Roger Penske, who has had so much success at Indy over the years. Sure he'd rather see his cars 1-2, and between them, Castroneves & Briscoe had speed, just not enough at the right time.



So now, the F1 race is just finished (approx 9:30 AM ET), Felipe Massa wins from pole for Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton second, Kimi Raikkonen 3rd. Weather in Indy is...wet. Time to check the radar and see if it's going to be worth getting over to the track this morning or not.

I don't quite know how those of us "in the biz" expect the average business software user to understand the wonderful variety of capabilities in the Lotus portfolio when they can't seem to manage the simple act of knowing when NOT to use "reply to all."

I might not be the biggest fan of Danica Patrick, but congrats to her for her win at Twin Ring Motegi.

She seems quite relieved, and I can't blame her for being so. She's fielded so many questions over the last several years about when she would win that I am sure she's happy to not answer that one again.

A few comments have been posted about how it doesn't count because she won on fuel mileage. What a pathetic argument.

A win is a win, and that's racing. Too bad if you won't see it that way.

How many times do we see F1 teams change their strategy to 1 stop vs 2 in order to win? That's a fuel mileage game in some sense. If your opponent can't get there and you can...bingo. Every race is a fuel mileage race in some way or another. There are many factors involved in winning a race, and sometimes you win out on track with a great pass, sometimes the leader crashes out on the last lap handing you the victory.

I'll agree the situation with Helio Castroneves was strange at best. It seems he was low on fuel and couldn't possibly fight Danica or risk losing 2nd position. However, there was also his comment that he thought Danica was a lap down and was told to let her through by his team. Odd indeed but again, that's racing.

With this off her shoulders, Danica will likely win again and perhaps it will be in a way that settles the idiots who don't seem to get what sometimes happens in race.