This site has some wonderful stuff to help you procrastinate - Kircher Society. The Moniac (a hydraulic computer that models an economy) is fascinating and theres a working Moniac in NZ too.

Nifty - Someone at the Gaurdian actually devoted column-inches (or web space) to slagging off Lotus Notes. Nice rebuttal from Ed Brill though. I guess the problem has always been that 80% of Notes users only care about email and calendaring (which up til version 6 have been pretty dire) and don't care about all the other cool stuff an organisation can do with Notes. So it gets a bad-rap with end-users.

A couple of good articles over at IT Managers Journal - Creating a better IT/business environment and Why Offshoring Fails. Both are actually pretty good reads and not as dry as they may at first seem.

Actually theres another one on ITIL which is huge in NZ at the moment. I can't help thinking back to the days of studying TQM and ISO9001 in my third year Quality Management uni course though.

Just a reminder . . .

In case you have old cgi related bookmarks be sure to bookmark the right page - http://mogwai.chaosnet.org/osxom/ and for the xml/rss feed http://mogwai.chaosnet.org/osxom/index.rss. The site will be undergoing a bit of an overhaul over the next few days too so some odd things will appear/disappear as I learn the ins and outs of static mode rendering and css.

I did try to set a custom 404 to let people know about the change but that seemed to knock the whole site offline so its been removed - hopefully anyone interested in the site will peek back here and bookmark the new urls.