Speedlink: Time Tracking Tool

Time Tracking Tool, a program that I'm evaluating. This is pretty close to what I'd want to use. It has the Play/Pause notion, as well as a task hierarchy. When you activate a task, it shows the time you started, to help remind you if (when) you forget to pause it when you leave the computer. That's probably the chief drawback to the whole problem, when you get distracted from a task (phone call, someone stops by your desk to ask a question), by nature it's hard to remember to tell the computer what's going on.

Stephen Lifts the Lid on Wolfram|Alpha

We finally have said something public about Wolfram|Alpha. The tagline for the product is "Computational Knowledge Engine", and Stephen's blog post introduces the concept this way:

Fifty years ago, when computers were young, people assumed that they’d quickly be able to handle all these kinds of things.

And that one would be able to ask a computer any factual question, and have it compute the answer.