We get up early so that you don't have to.

The Daily Grind 480

By Mike Gunderloy
Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Why oh why do small children think 2AM is a perfectly reasonable time to start the day?

Software

RichTextEditor - Craig Andera has released some controls that extend the .NET RichTextBox control.
Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 - No doubt useful to people using VPC.
LiveMessage Blogger Edition - A way to push your blog content out as MSN alerts, e-mail, and so on. In beta and free.

Information

Radified Guide to Ripping & Encoding CD Audio - A detailed guide to using free software to get your CDs into MP3 or other music files.

Community

Project Distributor - An online repository for code snippets, tools, controls, and so on. Looks like some interesting things might show up there. (via Roy Osherove)
Novell Statement on Patents and Open Source Software - Novell says they'll use their patent portfolio to defend open source projects. Good for them.

Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.