Thanks to Brother Kipil in Australia for this :-)
Showing posts with label GONADS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GONADS. Show all posts
Monday 4 August 2008
GONAD News - GONAD fame spreads to Australian pastry makers
Thanks to Brother Kipil in Australia for this :-)
GONAD News - More and More countries join the flock.
GONADs all be upstanding! We have some new O's to welcome to the fold.
India
Malaysia
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Czech Republic
Scotland (home of NotesBeer(tm))
Italy
Mongolia
All now have their Worshipful Grand Dragons!
The keyboard has been red hot here in GONAD Central compiling lists and getting Certificates out to new members I do apologize for any delays but the response has been startling!
I would also like to welcome associate member Kitty Elsmore who was by popular demand inducted into the sisterhood for services to GONADs above and beyond the call of duty, that and an endless supply of Kola Bottles and Flumps!
It should be noted that the ancient and much respected motto of the Order has just been discovered in a pile of parchment from the dark ages (ie made up or found in my sock drawer)
"Erectus ilico fortitudo tumulus administratio Migrus-mollis solo flange!"
Which may or may not be something entirely unlike Latin.
It means "Standing on the moral high ground giving Microsoft the finger!"
Please be aware that I can't fiddle with GONADs during work so if you want to join it will be the evening before I can get around to it. BTW there isn't a closing date, membership is open to all notesy domino folk and they can join whenever. If you are worried about reprisals from ARSE (Acolytes of Redomond's Sharepoint and Exchange) , your membership will remain secret unless you tell me otherwise. So tell you friends, your colleagues we are officially a world wide network of GONADs!
"Keep 'em Snugg and free of FUD!"
India
Malaysia
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Czech Republic
Scotland (home of NotesBeer(tm))
Italy
Mongolia
All now have their Worshipful Grand Dragons!
The keyboard has been red hot here in GONAD Central compiling lists and getting Certificates out to new members I do apologize for any delays but the response has been startling!
I would also like to welcome associate member Kitty Elsmore who was by popular demand inducted into the sisterhood for services to GONADs above and beyond the call of duty, that and an endless supply of Kola Bottles and Flumps!
It should be noted that the ancient and much respected motto of the Order has just been discovered in a pile of parchment from the dark ages (ie made up or found in my sock drawer)
"Erectus ilico fortitudo tumulus administratio Migrus-mollis solo flange!"
Which may or may not be something entirely unlike Latin.
It means "Standing on the moral high ground giving Microsoft the finger!"
Please be aware that I can't fiddle with GONADs during work so if you want to join it will be the evening before I can get around to it. BTW there isn't a closing date, membership is open to all notesy domino folk and they can join whenever. If you are worried about reprisals from ARSE (Acolytes of Redomond's Sharepoint and Exchange) , your membership will remain secret unless you tell me otherwise. So tell you friends, your colleagues we are officially a world wide network of GONADs!
"Keep 'em Snugg and free of FUD!"
GONAD Application Processing temporarily suspended
To all my GONAD readers that have applied for membership today Monday. I do apologise, your membership will be processed as soon as I get home this evening (I am in the BST time zone). This hiatus is caused by my bosses not allowing me to administer my GONADs during working hours.
GONAD news and a poll for the brothers and sisters!
Here in GONAD central, affectionately known as the "Jock Strap" it has been busy busy busy over the weekend with applications flooding in from all 4 corners of the globe. There are now O's in:-
Anguilla
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Holland
Ireland (both North and South)
Norway
Portugal
Switzerland
USA
Welcome to GONADs one and welcome GONADS all!
It is early days and I am hoping for a O to start in Scotland, one in Wales and one in Italy we can then arrange a 6 Nations Tournament of some description (server disk arm wrestling perhaps) any suggestion that it will be heavily weighted so Ireland or Italy might actually win it is MOST strenuously denied!
There was a suggestion in the Convocation on Friday in Belfast of the Elders of the Order that we should, if the membership be so desirous, organize a convocation at LS09. I would like to formally propose this and ask the membership for a suitable name for this event.
Please note "A crush of GONADS" has already been declined because it made Paul Mooney's eyes water at the very thought!
Please attach suggestions here or if Shy send me an email :-)
So get your Notesy chums to sign up ASAP! A convocation is no fun without loads of GONADs
and if they are shy they can become a secret GONAD if they so desire.
Anguilla
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Holland
Ireland (both North and South)
Norway
Portugal
Switzerland
USA
Welcome to GONADs one and welcome GONADS all!
It is early days and I am hoping for a O to start in Scotland, one in Wales and one in Italy we can then arrange a 6 Nations Tournament of some description (server disk arm wrestling perhaps) any suggestion that it will be heavily weighted so Ireland or Italy might actually win it is MOST strenuously denied!
There was a suggestion in the Convocation on Friday in Belfast of the Elders of the Order that we should, if the membership be so desirous, organize a convocation at LS09. I would like to formally propose this and ask the membership for a suitable name for this event.
Please note "A crush of GONADS" has already been declined because it made Paul Mooney's eyes water at the very thought!
Please attach suggestions here or if Shy send me an email :-)
So get your Notesy chums to sign up ASAP! A convocation is no fun without loads of GONADs
and if they are shy they can become a secret GONAD if they so desire.
Sunday 3 August 2008
The Chronicles of GONAD - The degrees of GONAD
I have been asked by the recently joined members what the hierarchy of GONAD is and were they fall in it. Well it is like this.
The 3 Sections
There are 3 sections to the Order.
An OU is the lowest section where the general membership exists and they are grouped together by location. For example I am in the Belfast OU of the Order.
OU's cluster together into O's For example the Belfast OU is in the Irish O of the Order. O's then are clustered in the Global GONAD Domain.
This can be expressed as Belfast/Ireland/GONAD
Everyone in the order is at a "degree" this defines your level in the craft.
The OU Section has 7 degrees of the craft starting at 01 as an "Undoubtedly Worthy Acolyte of the Oblate Yellow Sphere" you then move up one of the two ladders of skill. One for Developers one for Admins to the 07th degree. for a developer this would be "Worshipful Code Commander" for an admin it is "Worshipful Certifier Authority". These degrees are attained by raw ability and the support of your peers.
Once a 7th degree GONAD your time has come to move up to the management level of the order as a 8th to 12th degree GONAD you help run an O. Movement thru your chosen O is attained by the advanced craft skills of bum licking and toading to those that are above you.
Having achieved the 12th degree you can then gaze up and the heady level of the domain managers
who run the order as a whole. There are some particularly difficult rites and extreme bribery to pass but if you do then degrees 13-17 open up to you.
Here is a list of the degrees (Click on it to get a bigger image)
The 3 Sections
There are 3 sections to the Order.
An OU is the lowest section where the general membership exists and they are grouped together by location. For example I am in the Belfast OU of the Order.
OU's cluster together into O's For example the Belfast OU is in the Irish O of the Order. O's then are clustered in the Global GONAD Domain.
This can be expressed as Belfast/Ireland/GONAD
Everyone in the order is at a "degree" this defines your level in the craft.
The OU Section has 7 degrees of the craft starting at 01 as an "Undoubtedly Worthy Acolyte of the Oblate Yellow Sphere" you then move up one of the two ladders of skill. One for Developers one for Admins to the 07th degree. for a developer this would be "Worshipful Code Commander" for an admin it is "Worshipful Certifier Authority". These degrees are attained by raw ability and the support of your peers.
Once a 7th degree GONAD your time has come to move up to the management level of the order as a 8th to 12th degree GONAD you help run an O. Movement thru your chosen O is attained by the advanced craft skills of bum licking and toading to those that are above you.
Having achieved the 12th degree you can then gaze up and the heady level of the domain managers
who run the order as a whole. There are some particularly difficult rites and extreme bribery to pass but if you do then degrees 13-17 open up to you.
Here is a list of the degrees (Click on it to get a bigger image)
Saturday 2 August 2008
The Chronicles of GONAD - The begining
Gentle reader now is the time, here on Dominoyesmaybe, to buck the trend and for one of the most secret of secret societies to come out of the closet and take it's rightful place in the world. Unlike Opus Dei, The Illuminati, The Microsoft Discount Hit Teams or even them Dharma project folk of "Lost" members of GONAD have a long, illustrious and coffee filled (or whatever stimulant you choose) history.
For too long the good folk of the Geeky Order of Notes Administrator and Developers have hidden their lights under a bushel. Now is the time to take our rightful place in the world! This is the GONAD story (part 1) ....
Mr Ozzie's glasses steamed up with the heat that this idea generated in his frontal lobes,as as result he did not see the spiral bound folder as he rushed from the now legendary and revered "lavatory seat of Oz" so that he might write down this idea for his genre defining collaborative tool. Alas and ALACK! he didst trip over the afore to mentioned spiral bound folder and went sprawling full length.
Yeah verily and thrice verily this was but the first time that Microsoft would cause pain in the realm of the GONADs for the tome in question was the MS-DOS Verion 3.1 User guide! A hated and yet strangely compelling list of eldrich and arcane commands for the taming of the silicon beast.
In the next installment of "The Chronicles" read in wonder about the birth of GONAD as it struggled to be formed in the fires of collaboration and tempered in the smithy of the mighty IRIS.
If you are or have been a Notesy geek you can now take you place as a proud GONAD without fear of persecution or molestation of any type. Laugh at your M$ colleagues secure in the knowledge that you have a lot of GONADs behind you and they do not!
Simply send me an email and you will receive your membership certificate by return.
This offer is open to lady and gentlemen geeks from around the globe and any offworld planets that pick up my RSS feed.
As time marches on GONAD will have it's own website and if I can find a company brave enough TeeShirts and for the gentlemen specially branded GONAD athletic supports!
Brother McDonagh from the USA branch has had similar thoughts we may even form a COMMITTEE. Look out for our stand at LS 2009. We will be wearing our GONADs with pride!
Oh an news just in... Acolyte Brother Robert Baehr is off and running with this .
So Brother and Sister GONADs remember the orders motto this Saturday Night- "Keep Them Snugg!"
For too long the good folk of the Geeky Order of Notes Administrator and Developers have hidden their lights under a bushel. Now is the time to take our rightful place in the world! This is the GONAD story (part 1) ....
Long long ago
in a server farm
far far away
the dark FUD encrusted mists parted and a ray of sunlight cracked the gloom. The Ray is question was of the Ozzie variety and the sunlight was the appearance of Lotus Notes as an inkling of an idea, of a thought, of a "thats a good one" sub-type.in a server farm
far far away
Mr Ozzie's glasses steamed up with the heat that this idea generated in his frontal lobes,as as result he did not see the spiral bound folder as he rushed from the now legendary and revered "lavatory seat of Oz" so that he might write down this idea for his genre defining collaborative tool. Alas and ALACK! he didst trip over the afore to mentioned spiral bound folder and went sprawling full length.
Yeah verily and thrice verily this was but the first time that Microsoft would cause pain in the realm of the GONADs for the tome in question was the MS-DOS Verion 3.1 User guide! A hated and yet strangely compelling list of eldrich and arcane commands for the taming of the silicon beast.
In the next installment of "The Chronicles" read in wonder about the birth of GONAD as it struggled to be formed in the fires of collaboration and tempered in the smithy of the mighty IRIS.
If you are or have been a Notesy geek you can now take you place as a proud GONAD without fear of persecution or molestation of any type. Laugh at your M$ colleagues secure in the knowledge that you have a lot of GONADs behind you and they do not!
Simply send me an email and you will receive your membership certificate by return.
This offer is open to lady and gentlemen geeks from around the globe and any offworld planets that pick up my RSS feed.
As time marches on GONAD will have it's own website and if I can find a company brave enough TeeShirts and for the gentlemen specially branded GONAD athletic supports!
Brother McDonagh from the USA branch has had similar thoughts we may even form a COMMITTEE. Look out for our stand at LS 2009. We will be wearing our GONADs with pride!
Oh an news just in... Acolyte Brother Robert Baehr is off and running with this .
So Brother and Sister GONADs remember the orders motto this Saturday Night- "Keep Them Snugg!"
Calling all Notesy folk - you are entitled to be a GONAD and can join today!
To all of my notes and domino readership you may not know this, but you can become a real and fully accredited member of GONAD (Geeky Order of Notes Admins and Developers) today! You get a lovely certificates of membership! Current Members include me and Paul Mooney and an application has flooded in from Norway no less!
Don't be left out become a GONAD today! Drop me a mail to get a personalized Certificate of membership, it is that simple and best of all it's free :-) so become the envy of your M$ colleagues become a GONAD member today!
** Update #1 ** GONAD is open to ladies as well as gentlemen
** Update #2 ** There has been a brisk membership uptake and now you will find GONADs chapters in the following countries. America, Austria,Ireland,Germany, Portugal, Holland, England, Switzerland and Norway. I am off to bed now so any one wants to be a GONAD send me a mail/comment (don't forget to tell me the country you are in) and I will process you tomorrow (Sunday) :-)
Don't be left out become a GONAD today! Drop me a mail to get a personalized Certificate of membership, it is that simple and best of all it's free :-) so become the envy of your M$ colleagues become a GONAD member today!
** Update #1 ** GONAD is open to ladies as well as gentlemen
** Update #2 ** There has been a brisk membership uptake and now you will find GONADs chapters in the following countries. America, Austria,Ireland,Germany, Portugal, Holland, England, Switzerland and Norway. I am off to bed now so any one wants to be a GONAD send me a mail/comment (don't forget to tell me the country you are in) and I will process you tomorrow (Sunday) :-)
First Northern Ireland LotusBeer(TM) an unqualified success
Ah now gentle readers it is with very very very quiet keypresses that I type this post!
Myself, Mr Paul Mooney, Mr Geoff Higgins were joined by 4 other dedicated notes professionals, who I neglected to ask if it was OK to post about (best to be discrete in case they had said they were "working late" or other subterfuge)
The main order of business was the launch of the Northern Ireland lodge of GONAD (the Geeky Order of Notes Admins and Developers). All attendees of the inaugural meeting received a certificate to mark the occasion. (click for a bigger image)
Mr Mooney was pleasantly surprised when he discovered that on all those occasions when he had been referred to as a GONAD (he hinted that this may have been much more than once!) was in fact some fellow brethren of the Yellow Box trying to make contact. He wishes to send an apology to all those he may have ignored or growled at. Sadly this "Damascus Road" moment did nothing for his stature ... he is still officially "not tall". Mr McDonagh modeled the official GONAD dress shirt which Mr Mooney took a iconongraph of on his iPhone you can see it here.
It was generally agreed that the Notes 8 family should be recognised with the highest honour GONAD can bestow so the "Dog's Bollocks" award will be dispatched to MaryBeth and her team by first post on Monday.
Apologies were heard from Mr Buchan, Mr Coates,Mr. Quaresma, Ms Fitsgerald and Mr. Pereira who were unavoidably detained and the assembled Brethern and Sistern did clink several glasses of ceremonial cordial in the honour of all absent GONADs.
It was suggested that we co-ordinate with our brethern and sistern in the London and Aberdeen lodges to have a Notes Beer "GONADs on tour" weekend at some time in the future. Heads will be scratched and a report will be forthcoming in due course.
Sadly the hoped for video link was not possible as The Crown Bar is a very very efficient Faraday cage and I couldn't get a fecking signal. A suggestion for wifi access has been passed to the management of the establishment on the back of a beermat, a crisp packet and a receipt for a Subway Sandwich purchased in Gatwick Airport in 2005. We hope they read the message in the correct order.
This being the first meeting there were no minutes of the previous meeting to be read into the record so we swiftly moved on the official chair throwing, which was particularly good. Mr Higgins scoring an all time record 21 points after the perfect execution of the the "Excuse-me-that-IS-my- hair-you-twonk-Buchan" 360 with 2 inward twists. Mr Ben Poole's previous record of this 9.997 rated throw was 16.916 but that was both altitude (standing on the bar) and wind (he had cabbage for lunch) assisted.
The naked dancing was called off because of (a) the sudden thunder storm outside and (b) the presence of a naked Mr Mooney would constitute a clear and present danger to the sensibilities to the many innocent non GONAD young ladies who happened to be present in the bar at the time due to the double booking of the front bar for GONAD and The East Belfast Ladies Van Morrison Appreciation and Pole Dancing Club.
There being no other official business the GONAD song was sung with gusto, the remaining ceremonial cordial was quaffed and the first ever GONAD Norn Iron Meeting was declared closed.
The next meeting will be held towards the end of September in a location yet to be announced.
PS .. Membership of GONAD is open to all current and past Domino Notes professionals both Admin and Dev. Drop me an email to receive you membership certificate.
Myself, Mr Paul Mooney, Mr Geoff Higgins were joined by 4 other dedicated notes professionals, who I neglected to ask if it was OK to post about (best to be discrete in case they had said they were "working late" or other subterfuge)
The main order of business was the launch of the Northern Ireland lodge of GONAD (the Geeky Order of Notes Admins and Developers). All attendees of the inaugural meeting received a certificate to mark the occasion. (click for a bigger image)
Mr Mooney was pleasantly surprised when he discovered that on all those occasions when he had been referred to as a GONAD (he hinted that this may have been much more than once!) was in fact some fellow brethren of the Yellow Box trying to make contact. He wishes to send an apology to all those he may have ignored or growled at. Sadly this "Damascus Road" moment did nothing for his stature ... he is still officially "not tall". Mr McDonagh modeled the official GONAD dress shirt which Mr Mooney took a iconongraph of on his iPhone you can see it here.It was generally agreed that the Notes 8 family should be recognised with the highest honour GONAD can bestow so the "Dog's Bollocks" award will be dispatched to MaryBeth and her team by first post on Monday.
Apologies were heard from Mr Buchan, Mr Coates,Mr. Quaresma, Ms Fitsgerald and Mr. Pereira who were unavoidably detained and the assembled Brethern and Sistern did clink several glasses of ceremonial cordial in the honour of all absent GONADs.
It was suggested that we co-ordinate with our brethern and sistern in the London and Aberdeen lodges to have a Notes Beer "GONADs on tour" weekend at some time in the future. Heads will be scratched and a report will be forthcoming in due course.
Sadly the hoped for video link was not possible as The Crown Bar is a very very efficient Faraday cage and I couldn't get a fecking signal. A suggestion for wifi access has been passed to the management of the establishment on the back of a beermat, a crisp packet and a receipt for a Subway Sandwich purchased in Gatwick Airport in 2005. We hope they read the message in the correct order.
This being the first meeting there were no minutes of the previous meeting to be read into the record so we swiftly moved on the official chair throwing, which was particularly good. Mr Higgins scoring an all time record 21 points after the perfect execution of the the "Excuse-me-that-IS-my- hair-you-twonk-Buchan" 360 with 2 inward twists. Mr Ben Poole's previous record of this 9.997 rated throw was 16.916 but that was both altitude (standing on the bar) and wind (he had cabbage for lunch) assisted.
The naked dancing was called off because of (a) the sudden thunder storm outside and (b) the presence of a naked Mr Mooney would constitute a clear and present danger to the sensibilities to the many innocent non GONAD young ladies who happened to be present in the bar at the time due to the double booking of the front bar for GONAD and The East Belfast Ladies Van Morrison Appreciation and Pole Dancing Club.
There being no other official business the GONAD song was sung with gusto, the remaining ceremonial cordial was quaffed and the first ever GONAD Norn Iron Meeting was declared closed.
The next meeting will be held towards the end of September in a location yet to be announced.
PS .. Membership of GONAD is open to all current and past Domino Notes professionals both Admin and Dev. Drop me an email to receive you membership certificate.
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