Brandon Live!

If you remember my Search Champs trip, you might remember that Seattle was uncharacteristically lacking of percipitation.  Having watched Weather.com over the last few days, I’ve been given the impression that it’s been pretty rainy here since then.  It’s a lie.  The weather is perfect today.  As far as I’m concerned, it never rains in Seattle.  They just want you to think that.

The forecast says no rain tomorrow or Thursday, but then four years of flooding right after I leave.  Okay, maybe not four years, but as far as they can predict.  More deception, methinks.

Here are a few things that I’m working on:

1) A simple plug-and-play add-in that you can use to build a Windows application that hosts results from MSN’s desktop search, as I’ve shown in screenshots before.

2) A package that makes MSN’s desktop search much more useful on Windows x64 systems.  I’m looking into options for achieving shell integration with 64-bit Explorer (Deskbar, etc).  I should be able to have a basic 64-bit deskbar soon, but without the advanced shortcut functionality (it will initially be just for search queries). 

3) Much more 64-bit stuff.  I’ve been talking with Ryan Hoffman of Extended64 about some ideas there.  I recently switched back to Windows x64 with newfound determination to make things work that currently don’t.

But right now I’m back in Seattle for a couple days, so for the most part I won’t be doing any work on that stuff until the end of the week.