Thinking out loud

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I have some more “notes” on Outlook 2003, but before I post them I’m considering the possibility of giving those Office Beta Notes a blog of their own. What, another blog? Isn’t 2 enough? Well yes, but this one would only be temporary, until Nov. 30 when the beta period ends, and it would then be a complete list of all my notes in one place. That’s not a bad idea, I just need to decide if I want to throw up a simple Blogger blog, or possibly use something completely new and different? Of course my hosts insistence on not providing MySQL support limits me greatly on that front, but I’ve heard some things about some ASP blog tools that might be worth checking out. Anyone know of any ASP tools that also kick out a RSS feed?

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