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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

Friday, October 17, 2003

  10:23:33 AM  Generate an RSS file from Exchange. Scott Hanselman, fellow RD and a .NET guru, shares the source to a very cool idea. The application pulls items and mail out of Outlook or Exchange Public Folders and creates an RSS (rich site summary) XML feed that can be aggregated by anynumber of Blog/RSS Aggregators. You can find the ZIP at the RD Code Center. There are some other cool .NET examples there as well.
[Jon Box's Weblog]

  9:59:25 AM  RSS2Mobile is an RSS-to-WML service. Coool! [Scripting News]

  9:54:19 AM  RSS via Mobile Phone. "If your website is available in RSS format, you can easily make [it] available to mobile phones, PDA's, and WAP-enabled pagers using this tool. Simply enter the URL of your RSS document (0.91, 0.92, 1.0, or 2.0) below to create a .ZIP file containing a WML (Wireless Markup Language) version of the data."... [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]