Seems like the next version of Windows named "LONGHORN" will have amazing search capabilities almost like Google and there will no longer be a "desktop" to use.

{ Paul Thurrott } explains that Longhorn will sport a "task based...interface" which will replace the "dated desktop metaphor." No more of Linus Torvald's cries { "To the dekstop!" }

However, { Paul Andrews } suspects that the kind of search functionality that Microsoft is cooking up could make Microsoft and Google clash heads, but I liked his notion about building Google into the PC to perform searches. Might be interesting to see what happens.

Here's an excerpt from the Editor's Choice Smithsonian that I found humorous:

"...Years ago I learned never to put athletic socks in with dressy socks. The outcome is always ugly.

Athletic socks are bullies, always throwing their weight around. Put with gentle-tempered dress socks, athletic socks can clear out the drawer in a week's time and leave you with perhaps a single blue and black nylon sock.

The rest of the dress socks just disappear, only to be discovered later, hidden under the handkerchiefs, slumped under an ottoman, wedged in an old coat pocket or caught smuggling themselves out of the house in my gym bag.

Meanwhile, back in the sock drawer the victorious athletic socks begin bickering among themselves, splitting up, going their own way...

The sock drawer is a rough neighborhood, a place where survival is always on the line.

What baffles me is that socks seem to have it in for men only. [Women] never complain about a missing vagrant sock.

[Their] sock drawer is impeccable, everything neat and tidy, row after row of happily matched socks all rolled up in cute little bundles. Not a misfit among them.

Of course women suffer more than men do from another mysterious effect...But that's another story."

Harry Middleton "Those strange goings and comings in the sock drawer at night." (Editor's Choice Smithsonian 1990)

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Well that's all for now, happy Blogventures!