"She's an account rep for USA Telephone, the company that bought the company that bought the company that bought the company that used to be the friendly local ISP here in Keene, NH."

A hosted systems management platform with a lot of platform/OS support.

White-paper and 2 other docs on Versiera. Similar to PATROL Express, but with agents for the most part and agentless via SNMP.

"Evolution leads to the occupation of niches by locally optimal creatures, not by globally optimal ones."

I'd like to take this and make a little tag-cloud for our blogs. Just needs a little PHP'er, or, better, a Ruby job on cron that generates static files to include...

You cannot escape The Google, no matter how virtous you are...

Add a swanky stash to any picture.

For all your command line hosebag needs.

Note to BigCo adverteasers: using Flash is a dead give away that you're not real.

Great check-forging story.

"This is a great, if indirect, listen for anyone who needs to understand how open and free models actually increase the value of your core offering, rather than cannabalize it."

"Do we want the next layer of programming to be fundamentally imperative (i.e, JavaScript based) or declarative (i.e., fundamentally document based)?" Call me crazy, but I vote imperative. Declarative in the large drives me nuts.

List of some startups. Several personal data management ones, plenty of RSS, the usual. My money would be on PostApp.

"My spin on the job [of CTO] is more towards operational [issues] and a public technology pulpit for the company."

Lenovo and Founder Technology "will start shipping the latest JRE [on Windows boxes] as early as the third quarter of this year."

Our man Steve caught the wave as well...

Another for: fan.