Amusing - John Cleese bags Palmerston North. Its not all bad but I can see how it would be a little depressing for some people - at least its not Canberra ;-)

Gadgets - The Top Ten Geek Watches. The Fossil Frank Gehry Watch is definitely my favourite.

A new version of the apache/mysql/php based KnowledgeTree DMS has been released. Its starting to look pretty slick.

The first IronCoder competition has finished - each contest features a new theme. The first featured Mardi Gras as a theme and resulted in a bunch of 'interesting' OS X hacks knocked up in 24 hours.

Great idea - Fourth Ammendment Luggage Tags. That way when customs search your stuff they have to 'break' the ammendment.

Wireless - Seagate to release first wireless hard-drive.

This Flexible USB Hub looks like a great idea.

Monitoring - Munin is a mrtg like server monitor.

Databases - Ten of the biggest mistakes developers make with databases.

Interesting - What makes Harvards network tick. 125000 workstations moving 150 to 200TB a day!

Oddly intesting - using Lisp to solve Einsteins Riddle. 24 Billion permutations resolved in 4 seconds is pretty good going.

Joel Spolsky - Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don't Have Testers.

An inside look at MetroWerks in the 90's. MetroWerks wrote the definitive development environment for the Mac in the late 80's & 90's that helped ease the transition to PPC from 680x0.

Cool - How Apache use Solaris Zones for code builds. They use twenty Zones (equivalent to virtual machines) for various projects on the same Sun V40Z server.

Origami - some shots of the UMP/Origami product.

Humour - a bit of an old clip but still a work of satirical genius from Australian comedians CNNN - Which country should the US invade next?