All Your Applications Are Belong To Us ..

Spent this week in class digging into the depths of Microsoft's utterly invasive resource hog of a systems management tool. Hell, they've even branched out to infecting Mac OSX and HP-UX boxes - my *NIX admin friends will love it when I tell 'em they get to deploy an agent to monitor their systems. If your company has the cash and you've got the time, this is a pretty damn nice set of tools for managing you Microshaft network. I find new things to do with it just about every day, and there's nothing better than perusing the canned report on programs listed in the Add/Remove applet. Gimme some more of that "Biker Babes in Bermuda Screen Saver", oh mighty executives ...

A Day For New Shiznit

Well, today has been rather interesting. Test drove about ten new software packages to blow up Windows with, some of which are cool, some of which are annoying, some of which are never going to be used. Currently dreaming of Vista and trying to decide if Internet Explorer crashing on every exit is worth it. Dunno.

Of course, I also wandered out of Google-dom and into this whole arena. Judging by the age of some of the blogs out here, it looks like I'm a bit late to the party. We'll see if I have anything useful to add - suspect I'll simply be increasing the noise-to-signal ratio.

Intro

A first salvo into the blog-o-sphere. Just wanking here to see how things go.