SuperJason’s Personal Blog

Here is a new movie that is coming out soon that I want to see: 10 Things I Hate About Commandments

Go to this site: http://interact10ways.com/usa/information_interactive.htm

Then, zoom in…..FOREVER.  Just go there.  You’ll see what I mean.  I think this solves the mysteries of the universe.

Google recently launched their Google Notebook AJAX web application.  I’ve been waiting for this application, because I’ve found it very useful to keep all my notes in one place.  I was finally able to get my hands on it, and I was pretty disappointed.  For someone who has never used a note taking application, they’ll probably love it, and I highly recommend that they use it.  However, it just doesn’t give me the power that OneNote has.  The web technology just isn’t sophisticated enough to handle complicated usage scenarios.

I also did some searching to see what other people thought.  People liked that the Google Notebook was free (vs $100 for OneNote).  OneNote is also not very good for sharing notes between remote computers.  I did get that working by using Grove.NET, but I would like to see the functionality built in.

The decision becomes really easy for me after taking a look at this video, which shows off some of the new features in OneNote 2007.  The Outlook<->OneNote integration will be better than sliced bread.  Honestly, how important is sliced bread anyway?  Anyway, in case you haven’t heard, Outlook 2007 will have a killer feature that allows you to view your tasks and appointments together, very awesome.  To integrate with that, you will be able to create flags in OneNote that show up in Outlook.  Conversely, you can create notes in OneNote that link to Outlook.  The closer everything is connected, the better.  If I want to know what a meeting was about, I want to be able to click on it, and read my notes.

Google Notebook does have some interesting integration that would be difficult for OneNote to duplicate.  If you have the Firefox extension installed, you can click on a search result, and it will add it to your notebook.  It also shows you if you have taken notes on a particular result.  Personally, I would never use that feature.  I can understand Google’s perspective as a search engine, but from my perspective, I would rather see it integrated with the Windows applications that I use.

I think that it’s going to be nearly impossible to replace OneNote for a lot of people simply because of the amazing integration.  When you go with Microsoft, that is the blessing, and that is the curse.

Saturday we went to our friend Jeannie’s wedding.  Of course I took lots of photos, so be to check them out.  I was surprised how well many of the photos came out.  The lighting at the reception was very poor, but my flash did a good job.  The “official” photographer was using a Canon 30D, which is a very nice digital.  I was impressed that he was able to use a camera that was in the $1000 range to take such professional photos.  Hopefully I can afford a camera like that eventually.

The wedding was at St. Bernards, and the reception was at the Radisson.