It is a bit hot to go running today – so I did the next best thing – I used a treadmill. This is not the best, but it is exercise. Since I was inside i set up the laptop with my larger LCD screen and started playing the DVD of Timeline which my brother lent me a few weeks back. I got about 25 minutes of time on the treadmill in total – but this was interrupted after about 15 minutes with a phone call and then a SKYPE with someone from Canada.

Yesterday I installed Google Desktop Search. It has been indexing my HDD for about the last 30 hours, and it is still only 68% done. Should be almost finished tomorrow morning I would guess. But we will have to see.

News.Com.Au has a story about how Virgin Atlantic Frequent Flyers will be able to use their points with Virgin Galactic which takes passengers to 100,000 feet for a joy ride. Cool, although you need about 50 business class journeys to London from Sydney.

There is a story on Yahoo about a seach for the top 10 living patent holders in the USA. This is not as easy as it would seem since the patent database is not set up to allow this type of seach. The article goes into some detail about the search, and then some of the top patent holders.