Ryanware

Dell to recall 4.1 million laptop batteries

Looks like my laptop batteries fall under the recall. It’s inconvenient, but hey… I’ll have two new batteries!

Stupid stupid stupid.

Media Heir Wants ‘Airbus of the Web’
Wal-Mart critics take campaign on the road

Stupid in America - a 20/20 report on America’s public schools. Report was made in January. Just thought it’d work well for the title of this post.

For a reason which I don’t remember I had written this post back in December of 2004, saved it as a draft and never posted it. I might as well post it now. Mainly because my opinion hasn’t changed.

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There’s been a lot of buzz lately surrounding the recent release MSN Desktop Search and a little less recently, Google Desktop Search. I use search engines everyday to search the internet. When I first heard of Google Desktop Search I downloaded it, thought “I will never use this” and didn’t install it. I then read not too long ago about Copernic Desktop Search. Adam Stiles mentioned he liked it better because it would index source code files. So I figured I might as well give it a try. So I downloaded and installed it. It indexed my hard drive. I haven’t used it once. I installed the Google Desktop Search on another computer. It indexed my hard drive. I haven’t used it since. So I’m uninstalling them. Goodbye desktop search. I don’t need you. I remember where things are on my computer. When I don’t, the default Windows Find Files & Folders works just fine. And for that I don’t need an extra application running in the backround at all times. I like what Andy said about it.

Ask Jeeves is coming out with a desktop search tool as well.

I understand that people do like and use these tools. They’re just not for me. At least not yet.

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That’s what I originally wrote. I still feel the same way. I haven’t found any use for desktop search applications. I will admit that it would be nice to have the built in Windows search be a true desktop search, which I understand will be part of Vista. I’m happy waiting that long for it. That is, assuming it ever does get released.