Hmmmm, now Yahoo! has released a desktop search tool to compete with Google’s desktop search tool. Red Hat Linux has had the “locate” tool for some time now, and it works well enough. I guess it could be made easier, but I don’t understand what the big deal is here. Convergence between intraweb and local machine search? I guess anything is better than that silly searchin’ cat that Microvole shipped with XP. Imma keep using locate and find, you kids go on now with your desktop search agents and search kitties.

I’ve tried news aggregators like the Sage plugin for Firefox, but I didn’t really care for how it displayed the feeds. So, I just pootled along using my Firefox Live Bookmarks as my “aggregator”. However, after Yahoo! started allowing custom RSS feeds to be added , I setup an awesome page of feeds from my Live Bookmark collection. Now, mind you Yahoo! does have advertisements, but if you use the AdBlock Firefox-plugin with Proximitron, their detriment is rather marginal. The only thing I’m kind of wanting now is for the page to sort the feeds in the order of whose been updated last.

You can add involution.com’s rss feed to your My Yahoo! by clicking here:

I managed to port the GAIM 0.75 Yahoo Web Messenger logon implementation to bitlbee. You can download my new super tar ball here:

• http://bitlbee.involution.com/bitlbee-0.83-hoyhoy.rh9.i386.rpm