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title: "In local news..."
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/6/in-local-news.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/6/in-local-news.html"
published: "2004-02-06T02:03:00"
updated: "2004-02-06T02:03:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "In local news, these misc items happened: Dino Esposito found my article helpful. Yes, it seems like a suck up, but you'll have to get over yourselves. I'm honored. Michal Blaha has built what looks to be a better and…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# In local news...

By Roy Osherove February 6, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 6, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

In local news, these misc items happened:

- [Dino Esposito](http://weblogs.asp.net/despos/archive/2004/01/30/65101.aspx) found [my article](http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/searchforplugins.asp) helpful. Yes, it seems like a suck up, but you'll have to get over yourselves. I'm honored.
- [Michal Blaha](http://blog.vyvojar.cz/michal) has built what looks to be a better and more maintained Feedable, called [Web2RSS](http://web2rss.vyvojar.cz/), using parts of code [that I published](http://www.msdnaa.net/Resources/display.aspx?ResID=2324). Very cool. Again, I'm honored.
- I'm almost sure if I'm gonna buy a laptop It's going to be an IBM ThinkPad T41,T41p or R50p. Any thoughts?

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Feb 6, 2004

    ### [Lessons learned from IVBUG](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/6/lessons-learned-from-ivbug.html)

- Feb 6, 2004

    ### [MyDoom (A,B) Worm Removal Tool for Windows XP and Windows 2000](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/6/mydoom-ab-worm-removal-tool-for-windows-xp-and-windows-2000.html)

- Feb 6, 2004

    ### [Mortal sin #2: Information hoarding](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/6/mortal-sin-2-information-hoarding.html)

- Feb 5, 2004

    ### [Mortal coding sin: programming in your mother tongue](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/5/mortal-coding-sin-programming-in-your-mother-tongue.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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