Preparing to blog, I saw a new blog post by Jorge Segarra (blog | twitter) that will identify and alert you when you have long-running alert jobs.  This is something that I have had on my list to sit down and write when I found some extra time (translation: never going to happen any time soon).  I was so excited, I thought I would pass it on to you before I even played with it myself.  The life of a DBA sometimes does include doing the happy dance when you see something totally cool.  Enjoy!