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One of the things that has surprised me about running this blog has been the number of people who subscribe via email.
There is a much easier way to subscribe to this and many other blogs. Googe Reader is a web based feed reader making it a snap to keep up with blogs or anything that [...]

John Naughton has created a great post outlining the development of the recession in Google Trends. My suspicion is that Google Trends will also show the upturn before anything else too. I wonder which searches will be diagnostic of the upturn?

In the early nineties I managed to time my emergence from college to exactly coincide with the beginning of the last recession.
It wasn’t a nice time. Jobs were in short supply and the jobs that were advertised were usually deluged with applicants.
Newly qualified people are bound to feel a downturn the hardest. You don’t have [...]

John Willis on his excellent CloudDroplets #7 podcast mentioned a very interesting development in the enterprise open source network management space.
RiverMuse is an open source enterprise fault management system designed to replicate the functionality of IBM Tivoli & HP OpenView. RiverMuse has been developed by the original founding team of both Micromuse and RiverSoft.
The software [...]

Hyperic have just announced the release of Hyperic HQ version 4, the first cloud friendly network management system. Setting up a network monitoring probe in the cloud just got a whole lot easier.

If you need to create quick and easy diagrams but can’t justify a full priced tool like SmartDraw or Visio then you’re in luck. Dia is an open source diagramming tool that will make a welcome addition to your diagramming toolkit.
Dia comes with a wide range of symbols ready to drag ‘n drop onto your [...]

… a nice roundup by Linux.com outlining some of the options for network monitoring in a *nix environment.

John M Willis has done a great job introducing how enterprises can make use of cloud computing. Enjoy!

One of the great discoveries I made whilst writing this blog has been the ease with which I can create posts using Wordpress as the content management system (CMS). It started good and it just keeps on getting better.
I’d love to be able to update content on the rest of the site just as easily. [...]