So, here's the idea: something that's sort of munin, sort of nagios, and doesn't monitor computers. Instead, Ramirez monitors you. He'll sit in your UNIX machine, doing his damndest to figure out what you're doing and when.

The eventual goal is to be able to take various state feeds (is your phone on the LAN, is the shower on, is the toilet being flushed, is the fridge open, tempearture outside, temperature inside, when did you last tweet, is the A/C on, is the apartment door open) and infer things about you. Having a direct mobile interface is important as well.

Potential Ramirez applications:

• taking social networking to its absurd conclusion
• notice when you haven't cooked lately and remind you that eating out is expensive
• suggest you turn off the A/C because it's nice out
• inform you that you're late to work

The list goes on. So far I've got 1 svn repository, 1 sensor, 2 commits, and 9000 ideas.

There's a lot of cool stuff to learn at this year's Velocity conference. However, a few things stand out as really popular:

• Hyped NoSQL key-value stores with serious caveats
• Waterfall charts for analyzing front end web performance
• Reworking datacenters and networking

Sometimes you don't realize something's a great term until you hear it in context. I'm gonna have to re-use this one.