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I’ve been keeping track of the Cassini spacecraft since it’s launch on October 15, 1997 on it’s way to our ringed planet, Saturn and it’s largest moon, Titan. The Cassini-Huygens mission is composed of two elements: The Cassini orbiter that will orbit Saturn and its moons for four years, and the Huygens probe that will dive into the murky atmosphere of Titan and land on its surface. It will be another historic space mission, if everything goes as planned.

It took me a while but I finaly fixed the refreshing issue that was driving me mad the past few weeks… it turned out to be the background colour in the .blog entry in the CSS; changing it fixed the problem but it also affected the comments posts a little… (oh well, can’t have everything).

I’ve also added some new links that might be of interest to all you Notes bloggers!

Ever wanted to open Notes documents from a view in a pop-up dialog box instead of the standard Notes form? This may be usefull say for keyword type of scenarios where you quickly want to change keyword values without going in and out of forms (which typically display full screen).

Well the code to do it is pretty simple (once you put it in the right place that is):

Dim w As New NotesUIWorkspace
Dim col As NotesDocumentCollection
Dim doc As NotesDocument

‘/* stop the document from being displayed with a form
continue = False

‘/* get the collection of documents in the NotesUIView (source)
Set col = source.documents

‘/* the first document in the collection is the selected document
Set doc = col.GetFirstDocument

‘/* show keyword document using the dialogbox
Call w.DialogBox (”Keyword”,True, True , “Keyword document”, doc)

You need to place this code in the ‘Queryopen’ event of your view in order to work. I have created a simple Notes database to demonstrate this so go and grab it from here.

This is something I discovered completely by accident today; “Switching views while keeping your selected documents highlighted”. According to Notes help, you do the following:

1. Select the documents you want highlighted in a view
2. Press and hold CTRL, and then select the view you want to switch to

Hey! That’s pretty cool.

We had a great time at the Grand Prix this year (plenty of photos too) during Saturday’s qualifing sessions. All I can say is ‘…thanks for the tickets Mandy & Rob!!!. The race itself was far more intersting that watching the Ferraris racing on their own because everyone else soooo far behind - was it the new rules, the weather, driver error, whatever it was it made the race exactly what a F1 race supposed to be… unpredictable and exciting.

You think Internet explorer displays meaningfull messages? try the Iraqi Explorer.

You may have noticed (or not if you’re a first time visitor) that I’ve made some changes to the colour scheme and layout of the site - I just wanted some more ‘white space’ (mainly so I can easily place images and code sniplets). I’m still playing around with the colours, so if you have any suggestions please leave me a note. I know I need to fix the roll-over colour on the navigation at least.

No I’m not talking about ‘The Ring’ as in LOTR (although there was some resemblence) but Craig’s ring yesterday at his wedding. Everyone had a great time (Craig and Janelle too!) so we’re all waiting to see the photos at www.planetshifty.com. Congratulation guys!