Little Britain

What does a Little Britain DVD have to do with .NET you might ask?

As it happens I have been spending my spare moments (in between a particularly nasty t-sql problem) trying to figure out why certain data feeds are borking in .NET. Works out that .NET is a tad oversensitive to badly formatted HTTP such as feeds output by wordpress, see http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20041102095814

It works out it's not just RSS newsfeeds that have this problem, luckily I have found a merchant with a CSV product feed (hence the Little Britain DVD link). Unfortunately the fix above does not help me read broken Wordpress RSS unless I recompile my old RSS reading project to which I have lost the code :O(