Konfabulator is now available for Windows platforms. What does it do? A better question might be, "What doesn't it do?" It's an extensible widget application / development platform that hosts aesthetically pleasing mini-apps which do just about anything while looking quite slick as a bonus.

This item makes my Try List based solely on Skoog's ravings, which is usually enough.

Google has brought us yet another promising solution to sort through the data which never ceases to amass in our lives. This time Google intends to deploy their technology to your own computer. This might be nice as an alternative to the Microsoft Indexing service and the Windows Find feature. Google Desktop looks as though it may be feature rich, and it includes controls for constraining what it will index.

Just to cut you off at the pass about what you're wondering: the software does not share your computer's information with Google or anyone else. It keeps the index local, chewing up approximately 500MB of your hard drive, according to Google.

I have decided that I'm going to start blogging my list of things that I'd like to try but haven't yet. Maybe I'll get some interesting feedback regarding something in this list. That would be good, because though I really like to play with new things, it is always nice to learn through other peoples' sufferings rather than my own. And after, who knows when I'll have the time to get around to this stuff anyhow.

Besides, I can't help but sometimes feel, when digging through the Intardnet and chancing something that catches my fancy, as though... if it were not blogged, it never existed.