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“I think one of the most effective things we can do for ourselves and our clients is to start mocking up the future.” 
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Official OTN account in del.icio.us. The big question is: does for:’ing work? 
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Buzz on BMC’s mainframe tools talking to the distributed tools, eps. SIM and stuff in the Atrium umbrella. 
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“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.. 
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“the key today is end-user control with opt-in/opt-out.” 
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The Web 2.0 approach to everyone’s favorite past-time: listing what apps you use. 
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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. 
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Change your coins to Amazon and other gift certificates with the 8% charge. 
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Desktop app for OS X that posts to del.icio.us 
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Good for weirdness in wording and writing. 
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A crap-load about virtualizing your IT. 
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“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. 
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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. 
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The proof will be in the code. 
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Looks interesting. 
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I was pre-briefed on this, and it looks good. Of course, it was all slides and ideas that I saw. 
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“Remember that Scrum is a process framework intended to get organizations unstuck. “ 
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As ever, our man Joel likes the private offices. 
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Sun’s open sources directory service (e.g., LDAP). 
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Or, a portrait of a workaholic geek… 
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I, of course, am looking forward to more zombie t-shirts. 
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Who doesn’t like a little Web 2.0/analyst/podcast drama from time to time? 
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Filtering out image spam. The general process would work in any mail reader that can filter by content type. 
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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. 
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Various ways to make cash with consumer web apps. 
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Hmmm…maybe I shouldn’t switch to Thunderbird. I am addicted to Address Book integration and Act On. 
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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. 
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