On a suggestion from one of my colleagues, I decided to give Google Desktop Search another try. I was not particulary impressed the first time I tried it a few months ago – admittedly it was during the Beta phase. This time, however, I have to say that I am very impressed! It managed to track down some emails that I have forgotten which folder I have filed into (since I switched to full-time use of Thunderbird from Eudora at work). Way to go!
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Suffered another set-back with my PC last night – but not topping the <a href="”>smoking incident.
On a friend’s advice, decided to give ZoneAlarm a try. This is a reputable software firewall, which, along with many third-party tools, beats the firewall that came with Windows XP Service Pack 2 any day in my opinion. However, that was when disaster struck.
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Take a walk down the memory lane, where you can see some of earliest computer graphical user interfaces (otherwise known as GUI, pronounced as goo-ee by the techies) and their subsequent evolutions. Very fascinating to see how far we have come since early Apple interfaces – my current OS is Windows XP and the occasional KDE on Linux.
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Just finished setting up my own wireless network at home. Guess the recent upgrade has only wet my appetite for more gadgets!?
Well, after my previous system was <a href="”>unceremoniously put to rest, I had constructed a brand new system with many of the older parts either dysfunctional (the burnt up USB 2.0 card) or obsolete (my 768MB PC133 SDRAM 
). The current system uses a better and cooler-looking case, a quieter power supply and of course a new board plus CPU. After this, the itchy fingers could not stop, I ended up trying my hand in the wireless world. Consider this my belated Christmas present to myself! 
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This is what my reliable work horse for the last couple of years looks like now. All the useable parts have been stripped and recycled in the new PC. Here is also a close-up of the burnt area on the motherboard, right behind one of the PCI slots.
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