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"Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
— Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" by Arthur Conan Doyle.

"I like deadlines," cartoonist Scott Adams once said. "I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

"There is nothing like that feeling of spending days and days banging your head against a wall trying to solve a programming problem then suddenly finding that one tiny obscure and seemingly unrelated piece of the puzzle that unlocks the solution. Oh yeah!"

- Chris Maunder, CodeProject Newsletter 28 Jan 2002

"Management at eSnipe, which is me, is also feeling the pain of the 2002 bear market. So rather than pout about it, I bought some stuff on eBay that I really didn’t need, but made me feel better."

- Tom Campbell, president of eSnipe

Thursday, October 24, 2002

  9:05:22 PM
Radio UserLand tools and stuff

Andy Sylvester's Tool lists and reviews
Re Search - posts & replace category
Geeky stuff - Driver architecture for the aggregator
Upstreaming driver architecture
user.xml.rss Format Driver Doesn't Add Articles to Aggregator
How to include author names in a Multi-Author Weblog
Adminimizer Toolbar for updating your Radio Userland Site
Kit, a suite of page tools by Mark Paschal

  3:41:36 PM
Newsletter-to-RSS update

The Outlook email security update (see Q262700) means you get a popup dialog box every time a script tries to access the email address of a message. We need to know the address to handle email parsing without needing a separate rule for each and every source.

various approaches

OL2002: How to Create a Script for the Rules Wizard

Finally decided to use a rule to Forward the message back to myself (a special pseudo-account). When Outlook forwards a message, it adds the Original Message header:

-----Original Message-----
From: SearchWin2000.com [mailto:searchWin2000-C3C8D20E08C0B7DE@lists.techtarget.com]
Sent: October 18, 2002 11:03 AM
To: SearchWin2000.com
Subject: Tips from our experts, Oct. 18, 2002

Now, the news-to-rss rule can parse the original message header without using programming tips to access it.

  3:13:17 PM  Daves Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar. I've added a couple of searches to Dave's Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar . One is for searching Arin whois database and another for searching place names at the Getty Thesaurus of Georgraphic Names. The searches are provided here in the form of an XML file that you just drop in the searches directory. Arin XML file is here . Getty XML file is here. If you are unfamiliar with Dave's Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar its an absolute must have utility on Windows. [TechnoMagician's Weblog]

  3:13:06 PM
Finding More Channels - a great page on finding RSS feeds from Morbus Iff . It’s geared toward amphetaDesk users, but it’s useful for users of any RSS reader.