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December 13, 2005

From search to found

I've been keeping an eye on an application that Nat Friedman has been developing for Linux that he calls "Dashboard". The concept is simple, yet extremely effective. The program keeps an eye on what it is that you're doing and brings up relevant information from your computer: e-mail, web sites, Word/Excel documents, messenger clients ... etc. The idea of dashboard, and programs like it, is that you shouldn't have to search for content on your computer. Instead, the content is displayed for you in real time while your typing it or surfing something about it.

Enter a similar application for Windows called Watson (a take off the Mac search tool Sherlock perhaps?). The concept is pretty much the same as Nat's Dashboard, except this is for Windows operating systems and it isn't exactly freeware. There's a ad-driven version and a professional version to get rid of them thar ads.

I love this concept of computing, and the thought of computers going towards real time content searching is a great idea that I wish Microsoft could incorporate freely into Windows today. Oh, wait ... they're *working* on something similar? If this is something that was supposed to be in Vista, it might just be yet another piece of "vaporware" that's been promised and may not even see the light of day.

Bleh ... I guess we can all dream, can't we?

~out...

Posted by ed at 09:57 PM | Comments (0)

I don't do this very often

I realized today that I haven't had a decent picture taken of myself in almost a year. The last photo that I bothered publishing was on New Years Eve, almost a year ago now. Here's that picture:

This was taken on New Years Eve 2004.

So, I'm sitting here going through some things when I think to myself that I should probably post an updated picture one of these days. But, since I'm a procrastinator, I know that if I don't do something now, it'll probably never get done. Hence why I haven't had a recent picture posted in almost a years time.

Anyhow, I took a picture this evening. It's nothing special, but it's what I'm looking like as of right now. The hair is short, the chin is round and I have yet to change into my comfort clothes.

Here I am, in all of my glory ... or lack of.

So there you have it, and updated picture of Ed. I really want to put up more pictures of my family and myself, including Amanda. I'm hoping to start that this year starting around Christmas and work from there. I don't want to look back when I get older and wish I had something to show my kids what I looked like when I was younger.

~out...

Posted by ed at 06:21 PM | Comments (0)