Open Source Windows hardware & software inventory tool - Winventory. Looks promising. Commercial solutions are pretty pricey (and overly complicated) so if a free package can achieve even 80% of the functionality they're on to a winner.

Knowing what to look for when the client asks the eternal question 'this box seems to be slow' - Troubleshooting a slow Unix box.

Joel Spolsky shares an anecdote to mark Bills stepdown from Microsoft - My first Bill Gates Code Review.

John Gruber discusses why people might switch from OS X to Linux - And Oranges.

I'm a sucker for cutesy pictures of kittens - I'm so sleepy.

Interesting - The Scariest Terror Threat of All. A competition to devise the most fiendish terror attack - 782 comments / entries so far. I think trains offer the most scope for simple mayhem, particularly the tracks. The chosen winner targeted a key hydro dam.

Cool satellite image of last weeks South Island Snow Dump.

Share a single screen to multiple PC's - TiffanyScreens for OS X and Windows. Useful for training and demos.

Novell actually seems to be getting a lot of enterprise stuff these days - Novell gets into Identity Management. The project is called Bandit. I've recently been involved in scoping the AD side of a Novell Metadirectory scheme to feed AD and eDirectory in addition to providing Corporate Directory functionality. Hopefully Bandit works out - centralised ID management will be a key IT driver in large organisations.

Interesting - How to break notepad.

Useful - Nifty OSX apps.

Handy - Ultimate Free Windows Toolkit. Mine would also include filemon, procexplorer, notepad2, truecrypt, event log explorer, perfmon wizard, putty, robocopy and a few others . . .

Over at Linkmachine - 100 Reasons I Love Comics - 1 - 25, 26 - 50, 51 - 75, 76 - 100. Nice to see a number of authors from the UK and particularly 2000AD making an appearance in the top 25 (Alan More, Grant Morrison, Dave Gibbons, Brendan McCarthy, Kevin O'Neill).

Handy - Guide to SQL.

Because I have an appreciation for stupid trivia - How pencil grading works. My favourite general purpose writing instument used to be a 2HB before computers came along and I forgot how to write :-)

Interesting and amusing - Mathematical references abound on The Simpsons.

Flashbacks - Mac Software from the mid to late 80's.

Useful tip - Howto securely erase hard-drives via shred.

Another cutesy picture - Psychotic cat trees a bear (twice).

This almost needs to go under the Spleen section - the Academy of Linguistic Awareness points out how Saying 'Like' makes you sound stupid, and again. These look to be an amusing piss-take rather than an official ad campaign.