• Take a walk. Get outside, get some fresh air, and take a walk. A ten-minute walk will do wonders for your heart and your soul, plus a bit of cardiovascular activity will help release endorphins and get your blood pumping.

• Breathe. Changing your breathing can provide an amazing calming effect. Take a slow, deep breath in through your nose, hold it for about five seconds, and release it slowly out your mouth. Repeat ten times and do this three times a day. You'll be amazed at how stress dissolves through this simple practice.

• Visualize. Find a quiet time and close your eyes. Let all the muscles around your eyes, your mouth, and your forehead relax (it's surprising how much tension we carry in these muscles). Breathe slowly and deeply, and for just five minutes or so, visualize someplace safe and comfortable. Perhaps you'll visualize a nice meadow, a forest glen, or your favorite computer store. Visualize whatever makes you feel good.

• Exercise. There's no substitute for working out. Pumping iron (or other forms of strenuous exercise) will release calming endorphins. In fact, you could make walking in nature part of your exercise program for the best overall benefit.

There are a lot more things you could do to help yourself stay calm, but if you practice the four tips listed above, it'll make things easier. You'll be able to work smarter, make better decisions, and you'll feel better.

And now that I've gone and followed some of my own advice, I remember what I was going to talk to you about: Rnext. Beta 4 of Rnext is available on Notes.net. It's looking pretty exciting. Here are some highlights:

• Mail: Unread marks for folders, attachment save, and remove options;

• Calendar: Improved view display, print calendar to a document, hide private entries when printing, view icons for pencil in, private, and draft entries;

• Address book: Updated UI (user interface) and new fields for personal contact form;

• iNotes: iNotes Web Access is now available for testing in Rnext;

• Editor: Keyboard access to tabbed tables;

• Designer/App: Options to hide design elements from mobile devices, improved shared action UI supporting multilingual design elements, JavaConnect in LotusScript with the USE statement, Java agents on the Mac, LotusScript in JSP (Java Server Pages) for all server platforms, performance/scalability improvements for CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture), Admin Process support in backend classes;

• XML: LotusScript classes for NotesDOMParser, Store/retrieve XML (Extended Markup Language) in Notes file structures, C-API (Applications Programming Interface) interface to XML importer and exporter;

• Server/admin: View logging, Single Copy Template, Domino/WebSphere Single Sign-on in hosting environment, Platform stats and server health monitoring on AIX, integration of server health monitoring and historical charting, administrative improvements and features for Domino hosting, hosting services via IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SMTP, HTTP, SSL and IIOP, MIME support for converting outbound CD messages to HTML, improved Web agent performance, map names in remote LDAP directories to Notes names, predictive analysis and server load-balancing in Domino Administrator, policy deletion and policy synopsis, new UI for Delete User action.