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.