Deep Thoughts
I was listening to Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance the other day, and the narrative wandered into a section on theoretical mathematics. The math got philosophical, if you can imagine that, when one researcher ran some tests on non-euclidean mathematical principals to determine if they were more or less right than the traditional ones we learned as kids. What he found was fascinating. Essentially, all of the major mathematical theories were 100% internally consistent (containing no contradictions) but some were more useful in certain circumstances than others. In other words, and stretching the concept into a completely different direction, there was no capital T "Truth" in mathematics. There was only "more convenient, more appropriate" to the situation, and "less so".

Reminds me of painful conversations with a math nerd friend who proved to me by equation that 1.9~ was exactly equal to 2. I still don't believe it.

Shameless Plug
Google Voice: Okay - it's not like this is an obscure little start-up, but it's not quite in wide release yet, either. It took a couple months for me to get my first requested invite, and about two weeks to get my second (for an office project). The site's ability to put an intuitive web interface on the business of amalgamating all my voice traffic (along with SMS and email forwarding) has made it an essential part of The Process in amazingly quick order. The nifty voice-mail-to-email transcription tool can be a little entertaining, but it's a work in progress. And it's free.