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The (once) trusty MR314 pooped out this week, so I've been without the 'net on old silverpants for most of this week. Kim and I picked up a WGR614v4 tonight, so we're back in bid'ness.

The new wireless router is about 1/2 the size as the old, but it has less blinking lights on it. Also, it's got a plastic casing instead of a metal one. It looks like a toy, but I'm getting used to the XP-bubbly-cartoon design that computer shit is done in nowadays.

As always, I'm disappointed that there isn't SNMP on the cheaper devices, like the WGR614v4. Since I work on a systems management product, I'm always eager to have my stuff be monitorable. You usually have to pay like $40-50 extra for stuff like SNMP. I guess it makes money-sense: otherwise why would businesses pay more? Still, I'm a bit miffed.

Here's some interesting links from my backlog reading:

• Eclipse 3.1 Milestone 1
• Redhat is still vendor lock-in
• Is this real?, from JP.
• XPlanner - we've been skunk-working this at work, and it seems really nice. I likes it a lot so fars.
• My cats refuse to do this
• Check out this eWeek review of Flow, an (at the moment, OS X only) collaborative thingy, kind of like Groove, but a little different. The actual product site is here. This is the thing Stuart Halloway said he was working on at this year's Lone Star Software Symposium.