She's wearing them bloo-stockens, ah bet!

Today, I woke up. At least some of the way. Got myself into work by 8:30am. Now to rack up thirty-five hours in the next four days.

Yesterday was really good apart from the kitteny shortness of breath. We got a metric shitload of stuff done around the house. redcountess had an attack of spoons for it too! She actually cleared the cardboard mountain in the hall! And I changed the litter tray and the rat cage and washed most of the cat-peed bedding!

Neo has almost worked out what a litter tray is for. He still seems unsure of just how to use it. He knows he's supposed to poo then cover it up; now he just needs to do the scratching motions on the litter, so it actually covers the poo. Oh dear. At least he's pretty.

The calendar post (friends-viewable) appears to be the appointment diary I REMEMBER TO LOOK AT. What's on this weekend? I'm sure there was something I've forgotten. Comment here to let me know.

quiet000001's posted pics of herself in the corset, because she just couldn't hold out. I did icons too. I am very pleased she is getting as much joy from it as we had hoped. Worth every penny! I suggested she should feel free to bring herself to B-Movie, spoons allowing, and we'll work out somewhere to stow her on Friday night.

bootpunk's birthday dinner is this evening, with some attendance from us lot likely.

My nose is still streaming from kitaens ...

Monitoring tools with pretty graphs.

We need a system and network monitoring tool that generates graphs that are (a) useful to us the drones but (b) pretty to show The Mgt. I know there are any number of monitoring things that generate PNGs in real time. What do you use?

Wikimedia uses Ganglia, which generates just the sort of thing we're after, but the description of the application looks a little heavyweight for under ten Solaris boxes. Of course, I'd be happy to hear that this was not the case.

Update: We also need to check stuff like number of users on Oracle, but that should be a simple check every five minutes, assuming it can log arbitrary data.