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Little known COM feature: CoGetInterceptor. This function provides you with a universal interception mechanism that lets you dynamically inspect all aspects of a call and that feels a lot like .NET Remoting Context interception sinks (which unfortunately went from documented to “internal only” in .NET FW RTM) I don’t have the cycles right now to provide an isolated sample or an in-depth explanation, but it works something  like that: IUnknown * pItfToBeIntercepted;ICallInterceptor * pInterceptor;// …...

To everyone visiting this blog infrequently: The calendar on the right broke a few weeks ago. Please use this link to get to older content. Also, check my stories section.

Busy times. No time to blog in the past two weeks. We’re doing a major redesign of the newtelligence website, which will finally be fully dynamic, web service enabled and the new home for my blog. I’ve written a news aggregation service using all the good stuff in the .NET Framework and a bunch of ASP.NET controls for this. We’re hopefully done with all of that by end of next month – takes a long time because we’re really...

After toying around with various RSS/RDF feeds over the past few days (I am doing something in that area, but I am not yet ready to say what), my conclusion was that regular expressions are the only way to parse them. It really seems that RSS != XML. Sad.

Radio’s rss.xml has unescaped ampersands in the <comments> tag! :-( <comments>http://radiocomments.userland.com/comments?u=108971&p=12&link=http%3A%2F%2Fradio.weblogs.com%2F0108971%2F2002%2F10%2F17.html%23a12</comments>