I read an article about a storm tearing up a town in Tennessee this morning that made my heart race a little. An old friend of mine comes from that town!

We had a falling out a few years ago so I don't have her current email addy handy but she had a pretty rockin' site up that I know still exists to point to her new blog. So I went there straight away to contact her. Get her out an email.

But following; it had occured to me that in her last email she mentioned something about moving. Hmmm.

So I fired-up recoll, my favorite desktop search utility, and searched for ("all terms") her name. The very first return, which came at me about instantly by the way, was her last email. Bam, there's her email address, bam, there it is right in front of me that, yes, she had moved. She and the kids are living in Nashville now.

Phew.

Then I fired a proper email off to her letting her know that I knew she and hers were safe in Nashville. Which just made my day in all kinds of ways because even though she drives me bonkers, I love her deeply - we're old friends.

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Ken  - Thanks!   |71.128.197.xxx |2009-04-11 15:46:05 Really THANKS! One of the things I miss about daily Win98 use was it's ability to search through the text of files. I wasn't prepared for the 1/2 hour or so Recoll took for the initial indexing, but the results are awesome! I just found a few emails I was looking for the other day....

machiner  - Ya, man.   |Publisher |2009-04-13 03:18:34 You're not worthy of this kind of functionality. Sorry to tease, but you're gonna have to put that back. Yep, all apologies, but desktop functionality like this is only for those that have taken the red pill. Please, now, kindly return the package to its uninstalled position and be on your way. NEXT!

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