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I’ve noticed getting some international visitors to my website. Therefore, maybe its about time I introduced folks to this city. Ever since 1997, I’ve made Rochester, MN my home. This city of about 100,000, was made famous by the Mayo Clinic. They even have the Mayo medical school here. Many famous celebrities have been spotted at the Mayo Clinic, including President Bush Senior. The other big employer in town is IBM Rochester. It is the home of the AS/400 or iSeries eServer platform.

It is a very conservative town, with churches in almost every neighbourhood. Initially when I came here, not known for its cultural diversity, the city has started to attract more international visitors. Soccer fields are also very common in this city. That’s where you can see the many different cultures of the city come together. I keep fit by playing in the city leagues whenever I can.

I realize that Rochester is not the best city for entertainment and nightlife, but it is fairly safe and a great place to raise a family. I am not sure if I’ll live here my whole life. I doubt it, but until circumstances dictate otherwise, I’m sticking with it.

Yesterday evening, I played the final indoor soccer game of the winter season.  We ended up with a tie of 1-1.  I played forward striker position this time.  I assisted on our lone goal and I had one shot that rang off the post.  As the game neared the end, our team just got tired.  We gave up a goal in the dying minutes of the game.  The positive spin is that we created more quality chances than the other team, but we couldn’t capitalize.

For those of you who are interested in the latest security vulnerabilities in a variety
of computing platforms including Lotus Notes/Domino, here are a couple of good sites to bookmark.

• SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities Listing By Vendor If you are interested in Notes/Domino security vulnerabilities, just select “Lotus” in the vendor dropdown list and hit the Submit button.
• CERT Advisories CERT does have a good listing of advisories, but it is not as up-to-date as SecurityFocus. SecurityFocus does list a couple of vulnerabilities for the HTTP WebAdmin.nsf database.

I have been trying to come up with some upcoming article ideas.  I’ve decided to do one on how easy WebSphere Application Developer or Eclipse makes XML development in Java very easy.  In particular, I hope to discuss Java object data binding techniques using XSD beans API.  Stay tuned next week for the first part of my article series.

I present to you my first article
describing the appropriate way to write Java code when using the Domino Java APIs.
The excerpt is borrowed from an e-Pro Magazine article on Java Performance Techniques for Domino Development.

Since I am in the market for a new cell phone, I’ve been doing my research and reading into
what new phones are coming into the market this year. The Nokia 7610 has really caught my eye.

• Here are a summary of the features:
• 1 megapixel camera for quality printing
• Up to 10 minutes video recording
• Bluetooth wireless technology and USB connectivity
• 8 MB internal dynamic memory
• 64 MB Reduced Size (MMC slot)
• Advanced XHTML browser
• Symbian OS 7.0s
• Downloadable Java™ MIDP 2.0 applications
• RealOne Player (MP3, AAC, 3GPP, RealMedia)
• Tri-band coverage on up to five continents