cool shamrocks!

I just got off the bus at work and the cool thing about this bus ride is that I always have to cross the greater part of downtown to get here. As I was riding through, I could see the city of Seattle having a post-St. Patty's Day celebration; 4th Ave. is closed for a parade for another....10 min or so. :) People are dressed up and men in Irish attire (well, actually a few looked rather Scottish with their kilts. Do Irishmen wear kilts too?) and large drums. I didn't get to see much but I never really get to see the city bustling for anything except the usual rushhour strain (i.e for something non-work) so it was great to see Seattle more as community having fun today. :)

Work is nice and quiet on the weekends and the weather is awesome outside so it just feels super cosy right now :)

I think I'm just having a moment of zen right now so thought I'd share :)

Dah well -- special thanks to Starbucks for being open ;)

Today is one of those days where I sit and just think, "Sh*t. This company is cool." First, we had As Fast As give us a mini concert. Never heard of them? Neither have I! But the moment they started playing, I was won over. Listen to their new album here!

Having listened to their concert and their CD, I must say that they do sound so much better live -- funny since it's usually the other way around. Yes, they're that good, especially when they go off electric instruments and do it from 'scratch' :) The song playing right now is "This Time", one of my top 3 on their album, "Open Letter To The Damned".

The second cool thing is that I opened Slashdot to see an article talking about Amazon's S3 storage service. There are a lot of pro's and con's on Slashdot comments but hey -- it's a good idea, a good product, and better (if not equal to) than most options out there right now. That, and I know a guy that worked on it. It's just nice to see things that your company works on out there sometimes :)

Good website search engines?

Read: Free, no installation required, no ads, no gimmicks.

So I wanted to create a site at work with a lot of documents and stuff but I also wanted to make it easy to search through. I pulled up a couple things online that might be able to do the trick.

The 3 that looked interesting and could possibily fit my criteria above were:
Pico Search
Atomz (Web Side Story)
Free Find

So I tried the first one because it looked like it was in it for the money (so should work) and yet didn't look ad/commerce filled (so no extra crap). (Okay, I also liked the name. Quiet, you.) That said, it's not that strong a search -- but we all love pico so we'll forgive it. :) Anyhow, I put pico search on my 0x002a.com site for testing. The bad news is that my site isn't that easy to search/index since my primary content is in images without comments and the rest of my text content is either on the main page or in the database (forums and stuff). Doh. That said, better than nothing and oh well -- live and learn :)

So my question to you guys -- do you know of another site search engine that's easy and free to use? And/or do you recommend one of these?

Thanks! :)