One of the ApacheCon runners.

Web 2.0 company hiring .NET, ASP.NET, AJAX folks.

"I do not see how [the Yahoo! identity] announcement could be huge in any way except re-enforcing the walled gardens keepers' hold on identity silos."

On HP's plumbers and the "right" way to plumb.

"Thanks to the early releases [of our products], we can fix mistakes. We're allowed to make mistakes in passing."

Chock full of good info in wikipedia, participatory culture, Lessig, and other Benkler rainbows and sandals stuff...but with a concrete grounding in law.

Interestingly, most of the cool stuff is a Web 2.0-diction rephrasing of SOA, just more on actual details rather than desired results...though there's still plenty of desired results phrasing like "reuse."

Just in time for RubyConf! Zombies in Denver!

The forums for people planning all those zombie walks. Check 'em all out! Awesome!

On "Merlin," MySQL's upcoming management app: "a server-based database monitoring and advisory service which continually scans a user's database network for any likely system crashes, bottlenecks or security vulnerabilities"

Would life as a customer be easy if this kind of conversation happened all the time around vendor's efforts? I sure dig it.

I may help out by being a "live analyst" in this.

A call for helping to figure it out.

This is one of the funniest SNL bits ever. Classic.

"Lazy people are always looking for easier, simpler, and less arduous ways to do things." ...I have to go take a nap now...

"I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid."