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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

Sunday, October 19, 2003

6:09:30 PM Generic Site-To-Rss Tool. Via the MSDN Academic Alliance: "I got to thinking: 'All the data on the site that’s important to me seems to be arranged in an orderly and predictable manner. I should be able to parse it in a fairly easy manner and make it into an RSS feed.' So I started trying. It worked out pretty well. So well that I’ve come up with a way to let you do your own site scraping using a generic tool, providing it with only simple rules expressed as a single regular expression."... [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]