I should blog again. So, here: Lookout, an Outlook plugin that actually let's you search you mail rocks hard. It is beyond me that Microsoft is unable to do search properly on the desktop, but it is, and that makes things hard. Lookout is fantastically responsive and helpful and if you use Outlook, you should really use it.

A little story - while I was searching for something, Lookout found this email from from seven years ago. It's munged archival state (probably from pine mbox files to Eudora to Outlook) makes it unclear whether I wrote it or my corrspondent did (I think I remember writing it?) but it is neat anyway, to have the vague memory twinged:

The greatest thing about the song Slip Sliding Away is the way
this whole complicated story is contained in a simple verse:

I know father who had a son:
He longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he'd done.
He came a long way just to explain.
He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
And he turned around and headed home again

That sadness is archetypal. It is the same sadness as any; of
realizing your justifications don't matter, that your wishing
otherwise doesn't matter, that your longing for a return to
before is inconsequential. To have come to the end, and to have
just lost.

And now back to blogging.

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