Grab Bag of tech stuffs
First off, my new favorite Firefox skin: Silver Skin. I dig it and it makes me happy. It gets top billing tonight because I’ve forgot to include it for the last week. 
Another scary newspaper article about computer security. I’m pretty sure I can say it doesn’t draw any surprising conclusions, but worth a read (and from the home town rag even!). Honey Pot experiments are kinda fun, never know what will find ya first.
Google’s interesting desktop searching tool, cleverly named Google Desktop, was released again and with more options this time. Looks a bit more compelling. AND it supports plug-ins now. For instance, there’s already a Trillian plug-in for it. I’m hoping for a Gaim plug-in soon. Gonna download this one and try it out again. I’d been pretty happy with Copernic’s Desktop Search, but what the heck.. I’ll try Google’s again.
A while back I mentioned Ruby on Rails and included a link to a little tutorial. There’s now a Part 2 of the tutorial series. Fascinating stuff and I really want to find time to play with it more. The part two article has a link to a great blog entry with more details – amazing the useful articles you can find in blogs!
Monday Tech – a voyage of discovery
Ok, first off… what the heck?!? www.google.com/microsoft Um, so what’s the deal with that? I saw somewhere someone said there’s similar for linux and unix, but those don’t seem to be there. How odd.
In my continuing efforts to find good desktop search tools (I still favor copernic’s product) I stumbled over something called Beagle today. Now, as near as I can tell, this is still linux only (and I’ll be installing it soon) but, while searching around a bit, I came across an article that would indicate a windows version may exist. Now, the even more exciting piece of that article is that there’s gonna be a windows port for Evolution!!! Now THAT excites me bad techie self. But wait – what the hell? When did Novell buy Ximian (original Evolution company)? Where was I? How come I wasn’t notified? Hmm… that’s always been one of my favorite linux email clients (gui one at least). The novell site has me confused, but I get the feeling it’s not free anymore… Boo hiss.
I’ll assume Thunderbird for Linux is tolerable next time around I guess.
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