Over the past few weeks I have been working on a new version of Sun's Service Management Best Practice.  Jon Ford and I have taken the SunTone v3 specification and updated and re-aligned it to the ISO20000 International Service Management Standard. The document is in final review and we are expecting to release it by the end of the month. We have also launched a new i-runbook called ITSMO which is basically an ITIL based runbook for customer or internal use.

Well the lambs were born in April as expected but we only have 5 of them this year. So we currently have 12 sheep.Although they were the first livestock we really had we like them the least.

On the pig front Oprah sadly died of a gastric ulcer in the latter stages of pregnancy about 5 weeks ago. We were all pretty upset and I got the vet to check the others over. Other than Captain Pugwash needing to go on a diet all was well. He did however suggest that if we are intending to breed from them an additional bloodline would be useful as we currently only have two bloodlines. So we purchased two new gilts (young ladies) named Doris and Agatha.  We have also decided to go into  pork production and I have purchased 5 Gloucester Old Spots and we will be collecting them on Saturaday.

We have also decided to go into chickens a bit more seriously and we currently have 84 birds of which we have small numbers of rare breeds, Vorwerks, Lavender Araucanas, Salmon Favorelles etc. We are intending to breed small flocks of each before we start selling them later this year. So all in all it could be worse.

The rain has ruined alot of our fruit and vegetables this year. Despite all our hard work we dont have much to harvest. The orchard we planted nearly two years ago is looking good and we have fruit on a couple of the trees.

What with one thing and another it has been a really long time since I last made a blog entry. In that time the group I was working for has been disbanded and we have a new structure in its place.

I am now working back in Managed Services but in a new group called Managed Services In-Market which seems to be quite an interesting area. I am also very busy as a member of the CEC Content review team. I always enjoy reviewing the CEC content as I find out so much about what is happening in Sun.

On a more personal level I am busy researching a new white paper, which has a working title of "The Feasibility and Desirability of running a mission critical environment entirely on Open Source". So if you have any views I would be interested in hearing from you.