Unfunded initiatives. They happen everywhere from small mom and pop shops to major multinational Fortune 20 corporations. Everywhere that *I* have ever worked, I've had them, I know. If your unfunded initiative happens to be related to "Configuration Management" within the ITIL space, you just may have found a site to bookmark. As I develop it, I'll blog here on how to accomplish this staggering task. Just because you're doing it without funding, doesn't mean that you get a pass for a half-baked solution. If you're coding it, you should be able to ensure that it's as granular as you need.

I've come to the conclusion tonight while working on a VERY old PERL sendmail script that it's very difficult to shake the old scripts that I never thought I'd have to support even again. Those scripts which started off my career in web programming seem to pop up unexpectedly with issues or changes that need to be made.