Kuro5hin points to this essay written by Terry Jones of Monty Python fame about George W. Bush's warlike tendencies. What a great war humor and commentary...

Don points to this great book excerpt of Keth Brown. I'm happy to say: I already know about this article, it was jet published (in german) by DOTNET.PRO issue 03/2003 (current issue, so the link will point to the wrong issue after they publish a new one).
Unhappy: my current developer machine isn't setup as suggested. But for me moving to the new world of .NET Development does also mean: moving the right way. So I will adopt the Developer Lifestyle soon.

The guys at GotDotNet cry out: Congratulations! You have been approved to participate in RSS Bandit Workspace". Thanks i.A., I feel honoured
That opens the door to write the tool that I really want and I axactly know what it does. Let's start.

Looking around the last week at some available feed reader clients, I have found my personal favorite: FeedReader. Really handy tool. At first my favorite was NewsGator as I have outlook always open/running and the integration of the tool works well. But you have to invest some money (avowed: only a few $) and you cannot structure the feeds, that's important if you don't read only a handful feeds. Also looked over the NewsMonster, but it's really like it's name: a monster. At first, NS7 starts (10 sec's on my Latitude CPx H500GT ~497 Mhz), refreshing the feeds with the monster takes another 15 sec's startup of the java WebStart app and needs overall around 80 MByte RAM (20 NS7 / 60 the java app). Scott suggests another reader: NewzCrawler. Just like FeedReader, but a bit of overkill for my needs and I have to spent some $ again. Very interesting things happen on .NET: RSS Bandit, or some other tools addressing the handling of own blogs, like that Outblog (Exchange involved), or BlogX. Awaiting the moment to switch my own blog (together with the provider) to a .NET app...

"Don opens the kimono and plays Morpheus for Clemens' Neo". Would be good other (non-MS) guys are also be more involved than got a screen shot about a product that changes the name every month to be more excited... Blogx IS very interesting, looked over the sources and thinking about an outlook integration to have more powerfull frontend for writing posts. May be I can glue together the amazing tool or parts of from Ingo and blogx.

I have started the search on google a half hour, no interesting hoster found. Next was going through the list provided by www.asp.net. After two hours I stop working/visiting the extensive list on character 'C'. The most interesting price/capability ratio detected on

• @bNetz - ASP-ASP.Net Web hosting (german), a favourite
• ASP.NET Hosting.ca
• ASPwebServer.com
• BitLand Windows Hosting
• Boundgrid Technologies (good, also favourite)

Would be good to know: does anyone have any experience with one of these hosters (Up-time, response-time, support, problems)? Or other suggestions?

It takes me around one hour to find out how to integrate my component help (DLL) into VS7 IDE. It's really painful and erroneous to apply. You can read msdn: Help Systems in Windows Applications to lean how to add help for an application. But: how about the component help?
Here you can find that: read msdn: Adding Custom Links to the Dynamic Help Window to find out how to apply. I think that's really a task for ndoc and I will suggest a change/new feature to handle that stuff.

Hi Ingo, ok lets try your newsletter. I'm an early adopter ... Still busy with the old legacy stuff, not enough time to deal more with .NET than reading in the evening, e.g. papers/slides from the german .NET Conference speakers, e.g. Christian Gross (or Ingo Rammer). Thanks to Christian for the great workshop on thursday about Advanced c# (that really was about Patterns, a favorite theme of Christian.