...now, if Microsoft joined, it'd surely be so weird as to be a sign of the end-times. Dogs and cats living together! In all seriousness, it's great for all people involved.

"In our day, there is no compelling reason to lock oneself into closed source and closed standards."

Duane Nickull (Adobe) and Dion Hinchcliffe talk about Web 2.0 and, more interestingly, Web 2.0 patterns and the architectural needs and standards for the future. Also, nice RedMonk mention.

Analyst group. Check out the Milan connection ;)

"We're on track for the October delivery of a bouncing baby colt."

That is, the Java 6.0 JSR.

Hrm, will have to look at this more.

Check out some microformats in action. Note the link to add them to your cal: it converts the microformatted blog entry into an ical download by keying off the referral link. Now, that's Web 3.0, baby.

Since we're always trying to get IBM to host more things online, this has some interesting side-context to it...

WSDM WS library, contributed by IBM.

A hosted systems management platform to check out. Thanks for contacting me ;)

Summary of key points in Peopleware.

FineTooth (hosted contract management) joins OpenAjax.

Signed applications post-Vista.

"Worldwide RFID spending totaled US$504 million in 2005, and is scheduled to grow to $751 million in 2006 and reach $3 billion by 2010, according to the analyst firm Gartner Inc."

A simple slide from Media 2006 I'm assuming.

"The big vendors cannot afford to continue sitting on the sidelines as managed services becomes a way of life for an increasing number of channel companies."

The ethernet on the airport has "ethernet out." This is exciting for the likes of me.

Starting up snmpd on OS X desktops. It's just net-snmp, so there ya go!

Feature requests for MindManager 6 for Mac. Good stuff. Look at all those OPML requests.

Example of using a mind map for a book summary.

Snover on talking with my about PowerShell.