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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, January 09, 2004

5:44:18 PM Eclipse RSS Reader. Eclipse RSS Reader: Publishing web-based news of all kinds via a summary format (RSS) is becoming increasingly popular. The applications include regular headline news (Yahoo! News), web logs (Slashdot.org), professional bulletins (IBM developerWorks), and project updates (SourceForge.net). A variety of RSS formats currently exist, which increases application complexity. Often, a reader capable of understanding one format cannot handle another.... [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]