On the 2nd day of Christmas, my True Love scolded me....

"Perhaps thou doth think me unduly vexed by the sorrowful state of thine MOM infrastructure? MOM has sent nary a e-mail notification in 3 days!" Were it a punishable offense for neglecting thine monitoring infrastructure, thou would hang from the tallest tree as penance for thy shameful ways! Get to thine work, damnable man - and quickly, before thine engineering staff raise their collective fists in a spirit borne both of rage and indignation and strike thee down in defense of their maternal benefactor!"

“Guru” is a term of respect, very much like “Sensei”, for a wise and honored teacher. Gurumurthy Iyer has the distinguished look and demeanor of a Guru, but he is also a hands on engineer. Mr. Iyer is the Senior Director of IS&T and Facilities at the Bangalore division of i2 in India. I recently had the pleasure of conversing with him at a CIO summit in Phuket.

Links to Loïc Le Meur's fist reactions to the Le Web 3 criticism.

My wife and I just arrived home from a 6 day trip to Kauai. The reason for the trip? We were celebrating my new job.

On the 3rd Day of Christmas...   Here is an Exchange Best Practices Deviations Report for MOM 2005 (Developed for SQL 2005).   Description: This report displays the Exchange Best Practice deficiencies in your Exchange Org as flagged by the Exchange BPA Management Pack.

When your teenage years comes back to haunt you: Found via Workbench Technorati Tags: adverts, d&d, dungeons&dragons, roleplayinggames, rpgs...

It's a great wee posting, because it give some real insight into where the company's going over the next six to nine months (which is something I care about seeing as I use every single one of their products from Vox to Movable Type Enterprise).... AA: It's a bit like a case of “we don't mind what people say as long as they spell our names right”: we don't mind what people say, good or bad, as long as they're using our tools to do it.

Mr. Bruce Schneier reports at his latest Crypto-Gram Newsletter:It’s a hard question to answer because data is scarce. But recently, a colleague sent me some spoils from a MySpace phishing attack: 34,000 actual user names and passwords.Even 25 % of users had a password of eight characters and 17 % logged in with a password [...]