My Interests
I am interested in lots of things, and my work is sort of my hobby too — it's one of the secrets of success, get a job doing what you like to do. I have been using Diigo for ages now, bookmarking and tagging articles, products, and standards I find interesting.
This includes topics as diverse as Network Management, ITIL and Service Management, Photography, Cycling, Data Center, Development, and much more.
Tek42: Technology and Technical Leadership Consulting
Tek42 Consulting provides technology and technology leadership consulting services to organisations of all sizes, from small businesses to large enterprises. We specialise in network management, IT service management, and digital transformation.
From My Substack
I write about technology, leadership, and the occasional cycling adventure on Substack. Recent posts:
- Watch kaos-control build something from nothing — 2026-05-19
- Ideas to releases, without going broke or shipping your code to a stranger — 2026-05-11
- The Bottleneck of Vibe Coding: Preserving Software Intent — 2026-04-28
- Artificial Intelligence 101: AI for Everybody — 2026-04-12
- Stop Building Integrations. Start Publishing Data. — 2026-03-31
- Delegation Skills: The Key to Mastering Agentic AI — 2026-03-23
- Build, Buy or Compose? — 2026-03-16
- NMIS MCP: Giving Claude Eyes on Your Network — 2026-03-09
- Six Things I Changed That Made Claude AI Extremely Useful — 2026-02-28
- The AI Agent That Handles the 2am Alert — 2026-02-23
- AI Success Is Architecture, Not Tools — 2026-02-19
- Using AI for Automated Triage and Impact Analysis — 2026-02-18
Network Management Software
NMIS stands for Network Management Information System. It is a Network Management System which performs multiple functions from the OSI Network Management Functional Areas: Performance, Configuration, and Fault.
I created NMIS in the late 1990s and it has been continuously developed since then. The Open Source project was acquired by Opmantek in 2010, and I continued to work on NMIS and the commercial addons. FirstWave acquired Opmantek in 2022 and NMIS continues to be developed and supported.
More Content & Links
- Bern Sinclair — Nurses Working in Union
- FIDO — "The Watchdog of K'gari", aims to ensure the wisest use of K'gari's natural resources.