No news at all from Apple on their impending April Fools day 30th Anniversary - people are starting to worry. The 20th Anniversary Mac was very cool for its day. Will they try and top it ?

Wired - Thirty years of Apple GUI's.

Grown ups that still think they're children - GRUPS. I must be a GRUP . . . you can kill me before putting me in sensible clothes.

I remain slightly sceptical about these cookers -WoodGas Cooker. How can a few twigs and leaves generate enough heat to boil a pot ? I guess it does work though.

Interesting - Speculation on the future of science. "Triple-blind experiments will emerge through massive non-invasive statistical data collection--- no one, not the subjects or the experimenters, will realize an experiment was going on until later."

Daniel Dennett - Darwin's defender. The american Dawkins - whose book 'The Selfish Gene' also celebrates a 30 year anniversary.

Extracts from a recent book on a womans experiance of dressing and acting like a man for several months - Double Agent.

Ten year anniversary - Happy Birthday WebObjects. Sounds like a great tool - Apple should make this free or open source to encourage acceptance.

More Apple stuff from Wired - Thirty years of Apple hardware.

These guys are coming up with all sorts of good stuff - Altiris 'Juice'. Lets you install and run your applications in a self contained 'cage' - similar to a VMWare-lite.

If you can't virtualise your servers then having a good recovery/migration option is essential - Acronis Server Imaging. Lets you do a bare-metal restore to different hardware. Given how shite Windows (and the application software that sits on top) is at making it easy to migrate services from one system to another this type of tool is starting to become more popular.

More useful management and disaster recovery software from - SMA. My old boss is now selling this stuff. Love the ability to switch services to another datacenter in 30min as per one of the customer comments. The website is big on features but a little light on documentation/examples which is a bit of a shame - apparently its a super scheduler so you can script automate all sorts of events which I guess means although it won't build a new server it can kick off a script to do it for you. An interesting example of its use in an NZ datacenter.

Then again if you have OpenVMS it sounds like you'll be safer still. A distributed cluster would almost make you bullet proof.

Handy - Nice vi/vim cheat-sheets.

Neat - Charlie Fox Publishing. Couldn't find it on google so I thought I'd link to it and maybe people could find it by proxy. Always have to support the underdog. I'll have to ask Andrew if I can have a read - 'The Waiting Pig' sounds like a classic.