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I use a product called CompanionLink for Google that syncs my corporate Lotus Notes calendar up to Google Calendar and then over the air down to my iPhone.   A previous post notes the process in more detail —-> HERE

Generally it has worked very well without issue until recently when a weekly meeting suddenly appeared daily in my iPhone calendar.  Every day at 11:00AM or Weekly IT Coordination meeting!

I compared the meeting entry against what showed up in my Lotus Notes calendar on my laptop and viola… no such daily meeting was displayed. Only the correct once a week meeting.   I knew at that moment I had an orphaned calendar entry the Lotus Notes was ignoring but CompanionLink saw the entry in whatever Notes view it was using to sync the data up to Google. 

I discovered that in the Notes 8.5 client I could see the calendar entry causing the issue in the Views By Chairperson view but I could not delete the document no matter what I tried to do.  I would get a couple of different error message and Notes would try to repair the calendar entry and then error out again.

At this point I decided I needed a heavier handed approach.  I backed up my mail/calendar file locally and the right clicked on the calendar entry in question and displayed the document properties to be able to note the document ID.

Next I asked my friendly Notes Developer to whip me up a Notes Agent that would programatically delete the document by referencing the DocID.

The Notes Agent was created as a Private Agent in my mail (calendar) file and set to run from the actions menu with a target of None.

The Lotus Script looked like this (the long Alpha number is the document ID of the rogue calendar entry I am deleting) :

Sub Initialize
Dim doc As Notesdocument
Dim db As Notesdatabase
Dim session As New notesSession
Set db = session.currentdatabase
Set doc = db.GetDocumentByUNID(”C278821541C999D785257685006E8DAF”)
If Not doc Is Nothing Then
Msgbox(”Document found!! ” + doc.Subject(0))
Call Doc.Remove(True)
End If

End Sub

I the agent and then ran CompanionLink and re-sync’d my calendar and the problem was nearly instantly corrected!

Today I finally got around to adding a 8-port switch to the single wired LAN connection in the living room.  This allowed me to switch the Apple TV and PS3 from Wi-fi to a wired connection on the switch and also connect my DirecTV DVR to the network for the first time and use DirecTV’s on Demand service.

I’ll try to slap together an updated diagram of the LAN and structural wiring in the next couple of weeks.

I haven’t picked up any games yet for the PS3 but I borrowed John’s Uncharted Drakes Fortune and have still been bothered by the controllers feel especially the triggers when compared to the Xbox 360 controllers.  I ran across a product online called “Real Triggers” that looked like they might address the lack of an easy to reach trigger… then last night in passing through Best Buy they had them in stock for the same price I saw online…

The controller still isn’t as comfortable as the Xbox360 controller in your hands but the trigger problem is resolved.

I purchased a Playstation 3 (PS3 Slim) last week which arrived yesterday afternoon.   I intend to use it primarily as a Blu-ray player.   The new PS3 slim was introduced a few weeks ago at a new introductory price of $299.00.  This made it interesting but last week I was turned onto a promotion from the Sony Style site where I could get $100 off my first purchase of $299 or more.  This brought the price down to $199.   Right in the same range of other stand-alone Blu-ray players and an entire gaming console is thrown in for free.

My initial impressions are very good.  The construction of the console is solid.  The overall size is my smaller compared to the Xbox 360 especially when you consider the PS3’s power supply is built-in and the Xbox still has a huge external brick.  I like the fact that Sony fully supports an end user upgrading the hard drive on their own and includes directions to do so in the user guide.  The wireless is built of standard Bluetooth whereas the xbox uses a proprietary 2.4GHz wireless connection.  The cabling on the Sony is also a standard mini-USB to USB cable whereas all of the cables to the xbox are completely custom.  The only clear cut advantage the Xbox has over the PS3 at this stage is the xbox controller is much ore comfortable in the hands than the playstation controller.

Last night I watched a Blu-Ray disc on it.  Amazing!

[UPDATE: 9/20 - The new PS3 Slim is super quiet compared to the Xbox360 and from what I've read online considerably quieter than the original PS3]

Engadget PS3 Slim Review

I received the upgrade for my MAC on Friday morning.  45 minutes later the system was upgraded with no hassle and no issues.   Got back nearly 15GB of disk space to boot!  It’’s a little thing but I love the new Expose feature where it is applied by a certain application by clicking and holding on any application icon in the dock.

For $29 is was a no-brainer!