"I think one of the most effective things we can do for ourselves and our clients is to start mocking up the future."

Official OTN account in del.icio.us. The big question is: does for:'ing work?

Buzz on BMC's mainframe tools talking to the distributed tools, eps. SIM and stuff in the Atrium umbrella.

"This specification defines the Service Modeling Language (SML) used to model complex IT services and systems, including their structure, constraints, policies, and best practices. SML is based on a profile of XML Schema and Schematron." Hrm. XML Schema..

"the key today is end-user control with opt-in/opt-out."

The Web 2.0 approach to everyone's favorite past-time: listing what apps you use.

Tells you info about your battery, including the max charge info. Since batteries degrade overtime, it's nice to get info about if the battery has gone bonky.

Change your coins to Amazon and other gift certificates with the 8% charge.

Desktop app for OS X that posts to del.icio.us

Good for weirdness in wording and writing.

A crap-load about virtualizing your IT.

"Circling back to my main thought: it is fairly common for most folks to want to use the OS that they also work on." On the viral spread of tech, esp. from after-hours to 9-5.

The BEA blog editors like the Punk IT talk in a recent RedMonk Radio. To be fair, the "server is no longer tied to a box" idea came from my briefing with Levanta as I (hopefully) said in the podcast.

The proof will be in the code.

Looks interesting.

I was pre-briefed on this, and it looks good. Of course, it was all slides and ideas that I saw.

"Remember that Scrum is a process framework intended to get organizations unstuck. "

As ever, our man Joel likes the private offices.

Sun's open sources directory service (e.g., LDAP).

Or, a portrait of a workaholic geek...

I, of course, am looking forward to more zombie t-shirts.

Who doesn't like a little Web 2.0/analyst/podcast drama from time to time?

Filtering out image spam. The general process would work in any mail reader that can filter by content type.

Looks like MSFT will keep things more or less the same. Russinovich will work on Vista performance tuning though, which has to be all goodness.

Various ways to make cash with consumer web apps.

Hmmm...maybe I shouldn't switch to Thunderbird. I am addicted to Address Book integration and Act On.

The OMC list members talk about SML spec, quite cynically. The thread is split across July and August, but I think the July discusion is quoted in the August emails.