Gartner’s worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn’t so bad… The upshot:

• Gartner had expected budgets to grow 3.3 percent in 2009.
• Now the most likely case is IT budget growth of 2.3 percent to 0 percent;
• The worst case is that IT budgets will be down 2.5 percent.

If you’re in the middle of the US Election you probably aren’t too aware that New Zealand is also about to stage it’s election. The National party (think Republican) is taking a real run at Labor (think Democrat).

Was interesting to read these comments from two of NZ’s tech leaders on National’s policies… real worry if they do cancel R&D credits when so many Governments offer them around the world.

Nice ideas… Go do them

Really interesting presentation from the guys at Sequoia on the meltdown. Hard not to agree with any of their recommendations.

I’ve liked Vista from the moment I started using it. But for those of you that haven’t, here are a range of great tips to tune your experience. I also visit Karl’s site a fair bit along with Tweakhound.

I’m also loving the Dell dock and also using Launchy.