Sunday, January 05, 2003

Outlook Based Aggregator. Greg Reinacker: ...possibly coming soon to a weblog near you. Anyone interested in something like this?

No hablo Outlook. ;-)Looks real cool, though. [Sam Ruby]

It's funny because I've actually been looking at doing the exact same thing this week. I downloaded the source for Aggie which I was going to use as a base. My second thought was to create a POP3 server that converted RSS posts to mail messages until I realised that I have HTML e-mail disabled in Outlook. I decided I need to check to make sure that PostItems with HTML aren't disabled by the same setting before proceeding and I haven't got around to it yet.

This would be a step along the path to stopping using Radio which is (touch wood) working okay for me right now, but the problems others have experienced makes me nervous.

posted @ Sunday, January 05, 2003 12:34 PM | Feedback (0) |
In real life, you never have to stop to consider whether, for example, the failure of gravity to operate as expected is a possible explanation for some problem. In the realm of computers and software, you're dealing with abstractions layered on abstractions, and in order to make progress on the higher-level ones you have to believe in the lower-level ones. But in order to debug things, you have to question all assumptions, at every level, all the time. This is, psychologically, just plain hard. [Jon's Radio]
posted @ Sunday, January 05, 2003 12:14 PM | Feedback (0) |