Bloody hell!
Mate of mine decides to revamp his blog. Move away from the rather innocuous “personal journal” type thing he’d set up ages ago and didn’t seem to do very much with, and change it into something rather more “in yer face”… with a new title (So who died and made you King of the Zombies?) and theme to match. Neat.
A little place of his own where he can spew forth a torrent of foul-mouthed abuse and obscenities (of which he has an impressive command) in the most narrow-minded non-politically correct blinkered way imaginable at any of the thousands of things that seem to spark his ire on a daily basis. Even neater.
Then he invites me to be a guest author, periodically contributing posts (or rather, rants) of my own in whatever manner I care to express them. Cos I tend to have a few gripes about the world now and then meself. Neater still.
Sez he to me “How about changing the link name to the blog that’s on your blog?” (no, not this one, another one of mine… I seem to have them all over the place. So many in fact I suspect I’ve lost track of one or two. Just don’t ask).
“Good idea” sez I, and promptly jumps on the computer. No. Not literally. Though heaven knows, there’ve been enough occasions in the past when I’ve felt like doing precisely that.
Anyway, fire the infernal machine up, get on-line, and suddenly remember that before I do anything I want to download a little utility I had ages ago and then somehow lost. Web Ferret. A sort of online search tool that queries multiple search engines at the same time. Should come in real handy for a particular project that’s recently started occupying my attention. Been meaning to grab another version of it for ages and kept forgetting.
In the process of tracking that down I come across this other search tool type thingy, a desktop search app that finds offline files on your local machine not just by file name, extension or whatever but also searches the actual content of files. All sorts of files.
That’s something else I’ve been wanting to get for ages. Tried Google Desktop Search… didn’t like it for all sorts of reasons. Tried Copernic… seemed to take ages to build/update the index. Currently using Agent Ransack. Which is fine, but cos its not index-based it does take a bit of time to find things. And it doesn’t search every type of file.
So, download and install this newly-found app named… um… SearchInform. Give it a try at least. If it does the business it’ll come in real handy for quick searches of the absolute gigabytes of archived files I seem to have acquired over the years.
What next then? Ah yes, best just quickly check my mailbox. And that’s another hour or so taken care of. Quick tour of the blogs. Mine and other folks’. Back to the mailbox to deal with a couple of new arrivals. Then its just about time for bed. Power off and that’s it.
So there am I, drifting off to sleep when suddenly, like a bolt out of the blue, it hits me. Wham! Bloody hell! I’d forgotten to update that link… the very task I went onto the computer for in the first place.
Oh how I wish that sometimes, just occasionally, I could actually remember what I’m supposed to be doing. Bloody bloody hell!
-- fotdmike
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