Brian and Cathy are partaking of Padre's real estate generosity as well as me--hey he's rich and it's a big house. That's cool on the one hand because Brian makes fancy coffee every morning. That's uncool on the other hand because Cathy tortures me every morning--before I'm really ready. Hey, she's sweet but she really is the incarnation of evil. Today, however, all three of them were dressed identically in bla Today, however, all three of them were dressed identically in black t-shirts with ‘Splunk’ one one side and an almost-witty sentence on the other. You might think ‘Splunk’ refers to the sound Cathy’s shoe makes when it rebounds off my skull, but it’s actually a tres-cool IT log aggregator. (The semi-witty sayings on B&C’s shirts didn’t do anything for me, but I later saw a cute one: “Splunk: Taking the SH out of IT.”)What is Splunk, really? Don’t think “knowledgebase for IT.” The site looks like that, but it’s actually a log manager. This thing takes all your logs–and I mean ALL your logs–and indexes them. But not just for keyword searching, it also aligns them temporally and with a graphic representation so you can see and track trends and then drill down to specific log entries right off the graphic. There’s a free version and an enterprise jobbie, so check ’em out. Technology Industry