Hope you're all sufficiently over-dosed on chocolate and enjoyed your Easter. My usual evening peruse of the net pointed me to a large project IBM are investing in. Virtual worlds, in this case a marketing exercise in creating an engaging 3D sim of the forbidden city. Ok.. kewl... you gotta keep up with the times..

But then a few minutes later I surf on over to Bobz blog to read about the latest release of the LSX toolkit for Lotus Notes. His 6 year saga to get some serious bugs fixed. Looks like they just needed 1 guy to code, test and arrange release.

So, I thought the forbidden city demo as something rather ironic on several levels. This project typifies the yin yang of IBM. Some areas can have oodles of cash to piss invest in new frontier technologies with little visible ROI, whilst totally neglect "right size" their investment in areas that I would have thought is at least partially funded and paid for by  the 200 million licensed users of their primary email technology...... I know, I know.. stop thinking about it and enjoy the easter eggs..