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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

Tuesday, April 08, 2003

  9:02:25 AM  How to design a suit-proof P2Pnet. My colleague Fred von Lohmann has revised and condensed his seminal white-paper in which he explains to P2P developers what the law actually says about P2P systems and how to design your technology to minimize your chances of getting (successfully) sued. [Boing Boing Blog]

  8:56:14 AM  Bloglet offers an "email subscription service for your blog." [Scripting News]

  8:49:46 AM  Searching Google Using the Google Web Service ( 03/05/03 ) [4GuysFromRolla.com]

  8:48:32 AM  Office Talk: Build Your Own Research Library with Office 2003 and the Google Web Service API. Chris Kunicki shows you how to build a research library, which is a built-in tool that allows users to access various information sources from within Office. [MSDN Just Published]