This morning I needed a utility that I remembered hearing about. I couldn’t remember if I’d read about it, been told about it, dreamed about it, etc, nor could I remember the name, but I knew vaguely what it did. After a few frustrating minutes searching on google, trying different potential key words, trying to imagine how they might be pitching it, etc. Nothing.

In desperation, I tried Bing with the same set of keywords as my last attempt on Google. First 3 hits on the page all pointing to the right place.  So I went back to Google, tried the same keywords again, and the result I was looking for was on Page 4.

So, completely non-scientific test, shouldn’t read too much into it, but still, I may not be as sceptical about using Bing next time.

The false positives that Avast! anti-virus was throwing against Delphi-created executables seems to have been addressed. There’s a one line notice added to their support forums here http://forum.avast.com/

“Trends aren’t transmitted hierarchically, as they used to be,” explains Martin Raymond, co-founder of The Future Laboratory, a trend forecasting company. “They’re now transmitted laterally and collaboratively via the internet. You once had a series of gatekeepers in the adoption of a trend: the innovator, the early adopter, the late adopter, the early mainstream, the late mainstream, and finally the conservative. But now it goes straight from the innovator to the mainstream.”

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