Check it out, IBM marketing is getting consumer-y!

"CA has appointed Ajei Gopal, Symantec Corp.'s former chief technology officer, to lead its enterprise systems management business unit," that is, Unicenter.

Hear an actual "customer" talk about using Agile in the enterprise...not just a consultant. Good stuff. The coolest thing is to hear how the biz and IT cultures finally got on talking and understanding terms. Yuh!

Notes and numbers on running OSS apps and servers on Windows instead of Linux. Olson's comments hit the nail on the head: "if I've already got [Windows installed], why would I bother to throw it away and install something else?"

Show off people in your network.

Bert Armijo's blog: utility computing, grid, and 3tera.

What is the deal with 1-off blogs? They seem to come soley from people who have critical pieces about companies.

Hmmm...tracks hits in search engines?

More on folks wanting JavaScript on the server side.

I would be shocked -- shocked! -- to find that though there's 3% less to pay for in taxes out phone bills stay exactly the same, probably going up 3%.

Latest efforts by the ACLU of Texas.

"allows administrators to download a main Gentoo software image to networked machines, and track all software, configurations and packages installed on Gentoo machines across the LAN."

"The idea that life might have been intentionally spread throughout space and seeded on the surface of other worlds by a guiding intelligence."

The story of Hyperic breaking away from Covalent in 2004.

Reads several sources into audio for listening to in iTunes/iPod.

"I was chatting with a friend of mine up in Toronto who is looking around at the Toronto Web 2.0 world of online apps and watching them drop like flies. When asked, 'What is your business model?' many of them pointed to adwords."