The Stuffed Dog

New Google Search Results Format?
This looks like a potentially great improvement to the standard Google search results pages, integrating drop-down expansion of site information as well as search-further-within-this-site functionality. One more way to keep you on Google's site a few seconds longer. Bravo.

Paul Thurrott gives Microsoft what for
MS lover Paul Thurrott rips into Microsoft over the huge disappointment that Vista is turning out to be. Most of the great new features MS was bragging about three years ago have been dropped, and what features are new are either blatant copies of OS X or poorly implemented attempts at improving security. If Vista comes out looking anything like the CTP previews, it's going to be a huge black eye for Microsoft. Don't expect it till mid 2007 at the earliest either, despite what they say.

Posted by Dave Adams at 09:38 AM | Permalink

Windows on your Mac
Apple has announced it will support dual-boot installation of Windows XP on Macs with a new boot manager called Boot Camp. The other day Microsoft announced it would support Linux in Virtual Server. What's the world coming to??

Posted by Dave Adams at 09:41 AM | Permalink

I tend to get ahead of myself. I'll start focusing on some future aspect of a project that seems interesting to me, and I'll obsess over the idea of it, even if it's not something I can tackle at the moment. Meanwhile, the steps I need to be taking next aren't getting done. It happens at work; it happens for home improvement projects; it happens on this site. About a week ago I decided to write an entry about Rails migrations and schemas, and how I hoped to start working them into my projects. But planning the post out in my head, I wasn't satisfied with just a quick glossover. I wanted appropriate links and some thoughtful commentary--why else would I spend the time to post? Of course, gathering those links, organizing the thoughtfulness, and getting it all down promised to require a bit more focus than I could provide among all our moving preparations.

The obvious thing to do would be to drop the idea and write about something else. But every time I thought of posting something I felt this obligation to write the post I had already thought of. And so nothing's been posted for a week. And it's clear to me now why I so often stop writing here. I get wrapped up in a particular idea that will require more work than I'm willing to put in, but I can't get past it. So to loosen the blogblock a bit I've decided to write a big long apologetic metapost pointing out what a flawed individual I am. Maybe that will get me going...

Posted by Dave Adams at 08:32 AM | Permalink