I learned something new today. Or, something blatantly obvious that i already knew but hadn’t thought of was shoved in my face. Same thing. We had this housewarming party at work today. As this lecturer (Tom, but i forget his surname) mentioned that modern industry folks are now “required” to blog as to show what they’ve learned today, i saw that the parallel to what they call an “oppimispäiväkirja” (”learning diary”) at school (and other schools, i’m sure). And a reason to blog.

It’s not just to show others what nifty stuff you’ve invented, found or thought of, it’s a way of reflecting on what you’ve learned today.

It doesn’t even have to be something wholly remarkable, but it’s a tool for yourself — myself — tell to yourself that this is what i’ve done today and by repeating it, i can learn it, remember it, and find it afterwards when i need the reminder.

So there.

This is what i learned today.

A week back, i learned that MOM, Microsoft Operations Manager, is a nifty tool with which you can keep an eye open on a myriad of things happening on a farm of servers, and that it can draw pretty graphs showing where Active directory has synched, or failed to synch.  Should have written that then, but it just didn’t seem blogworthy.  Heck, for me it was, and i now realize that i write this stuff for me too.

And today it’s UN day.  I salute all the active members of the United Nations, and those i’ve worked with when i did so.  I know a few of them still are in active service.  Kudos to you.