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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

Saturday, November 15, 2003

7:04:09 PM intraVnews vs NewsGator. In short: intraVnews competes directly with NewsGator as an RSS reader for use on desktops for private (FREE) as well as corporate (licensed) use. It is 100% .Net based, developed in C# using Microsoft's Interop libraries, works on Outlook XP and 2003, Windows 98SE and up (.Net Framework v1.1). They are trying to take a fresh approach based on the following principles: (1) RSS is what counts, NNTP is not interesting; (2) the user must never be hampered when they are using Outlook for real work (things other than RSS);...