If anyone asks, I still haven’t forgotten.

I spent some time today evaluating Quicksilver to see if it was up to task of defeating my darling LaunchBar 4.0. While it had some nice features going for it, including a slick interface which allowed for some rather complicated operations and a promising plug-in architecture, I didn’t really find much to gush about. For what I do, which is find and launch documents and applications, LaunchBar does it faster. It’s well worth the substantial price difference (free compared to a $39 business license).

Last night as I was puzzling my way through yet another Latin sentence about the nature of the spirit, I was reminded of the schoolboy prank in Rudyard Kipling’s Stalky & Co., in which the titular heroes sneak into the print shop and rearrange the characters on the printing plates (old technology!) for their upcoming Latin exam. I felt as if somehow this sentence had been maliciously altered in the same fashion, until I realized that when Lucretius said that “death is nothing,” he meant it literally.