Sometimes you’re glad you spent that little bit more money on resiliency. Today is that day. I’ve just been informed by our ISP that one of the disks in the server that brought you this page has died and gone to hard disk heaven.
The last time that happened we had some bad downtime. Lesson learnt. [...]

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I mentioned in the Looking forward to 2008 post that I would post further information about the Sensatronics Senturion 1.04 firmware release.
Brendan over at Sentinel has got there first the little scallywag. Well done Brendan!
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I don’t suppose many of you know my dirty little secret: I’m a failure. There I’ve said it. I founded an open source project and failed miserably. Sorry! Please wait there whilst I go outside to self-flagellate…that’s better the open source gods have been salved.
Back in 2005 I knew there was a tool missing from [...]

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We expect two main trends to continue to drive business throughout 2008:

Convergence — a lot of people not normally associated with computers and communications are being drawn in, most notably electricians working in the building industry. With things getting sticky in the housing market, it is likely that a lot of electricians will be looking [...]

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Sigh. Just received this email from the folks at Pandora. What a shame, Pandora is by far the best internet radio station out there.
hi, it’s Tim,
This is an email I hoped I would never have to send.
As you probably know, in July of 2007 we had to block usage of Pandora outside the U.S. because [...]

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Any super observant readers may have noticed some problems with the blog comment system. Long comments wouldn’t display properly. The comment author name would appear correctly but the comment itself wouldn’t be displayed.
We’ve tracked it down to being a plug-in problem. I decided to selectively deactivate plug-ins until the comments worked properly again. The SEM [...]

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Mark Hinkle from Zenoss sent me a link to an interesting document he prepared yesterday.

I think Mark may be over egging Zenoss “clear market leadership” but without any doubt their growth over the last year has been impressive.
Perhaps the most impressive thing to take away is that all of the projects featured have grown over [...]

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I actually refused some chocolate last night…not often that happens! Geese, I need to get down the gym today.
I must confess that I’ve been looking forward to going back to work for the last few days. The highlight of my holiday was the annual family trip to the pantomime at the Theatre Royal [...]

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