Gmail’s contact manager is not helping my delusions of godhood.

Like treacle through a pipe…

Here’s what “Quick Fix Engineering” means in Redmond:

• Release in September 2010
• Issue a fix in December 2010
• Deploy the fix widely in March 2011

See also: Windows Phone 7

Sentence of the day: Java edition

As a Java programmer for many years, this was both exciting and horrifying: my own tools had turned on me!

Awesome tool: WatchOCR LiveCD

Problem

You have a PDF consisting of scanned images (e.g. from an old book). You would like to make it into a searchable PDF, so the text can be searched and copied-and-pasted into other documents.

Solution

WatchOCR LiveCD

Details

This was going to be a footnote to an upcoming blog post, but I was so impressed with this tool that I wanted to give it a moment in the spotlight. (Scotch Tape & Duct Whisky is more like a Maglite. The AA size. But still.)