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I just spotted a new way of displaying your website hit stats on Corante’s Get Real blog. I soo want one 🙂 I’ve mailed ClustrMaps asking to be added to the beta..here’s hoping they succumb! UPDATE: They succumbed! I’ve just got this great email from Marc @ ClustrMap: Hi, Simon — First of all please let me apologize for the delay in replying to you… we are just catching up on a huge email backlog and I can assure you that our

I try to keep a close eye on mobile phone technology, I’ve been invoved in some projects where phones & the GPRS network have been used for some very interesting applications, Russel Beattie has an interesting article on how Linux is now or is going to be the platform of choice, here. He also has a neat phrase “Linux is inexpensive, has no strategy tax (like Microsoft)”. Love it. Browsing through the rest of Russel’s notes, he has pod2mob, which looks interesting, but seems to be US centric, i.

Some pics of somebody using simalar kit to mine to great effect..http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11382_7-6279853-3.html?tag=smgif, I’m sure if I had enough money to buy a F355, I’d have enough free time to finish my project 🙂

A friend of mine, Paul Synnott, has a new project, php121, an online, client-less Instant Messaging tool for websites & communities etc, surf on over & have a look if that kind of thing floats your boat 🙂

A friend of mine, Robert, is on the committee for the Northern Ireland Charolais Club, the club usually runs a BBQ during the summer (with some fine charolais steaks!) as a fund raiser, this year was the biggest that I’ve been to so far, apparently over 800 people turned up! Friends of ours, Chris & Cheryl flew back for the special event. Now, Chris is notoriously conservative when it comes to spending money, which is why it came as a huge shock to us (and his fiance!

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Kilts, Solaris, what next?

Near our old office, a man was beaten & stabbed to death, by our new office, another was gunned down. Great eh?

Even though been having some issues with OpenNMS, I was very glad to see this: From: Tarus Balog To: opennms-announce@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [opennms-announce] OpenNMS Named Winner of the Best Systems Management Tools Category at LinuxWorld Gang: I thought you might enjoy one the following press releases. Thanks for helping to create the community that makes OpenNMS possible. Give yourself a round of applause. PITTSBORO, NC – 9 August 2005 – OpenNMS has won a Product Excellence

I’ve muttered before on the Open Source Enterprise, (you know, the one where we pay for somebodies skills in installing & maintaining the software, not for somebody to develop it, and then pay through the nose depending on how much we want to use the software, as well as paying for somebody to install & maintain it) Anyways, InfoWorld has loose collection of articles on Open Source in the enterprise, you see it here