What do you get when you create a Java-based desktop RSS/Atom aggregator backed by a MySQL database? Robust searching and storage.

What do you name it if you’re trying to convince people to try it? Irritator. No, Frustrator. HemorrhoidMaker? Wait… I’ve got it…. Aggrevator!

Good thing it is open source. I’d hate to have to pay to be aggravated. In all fairness, I haven’t tried Aggrevator yet, so I can’t vouch for how well it works. However, I’m not so sure that reverse psychology works well in marketing…

• Diet Coke: None of the taste, all of the chemicals.
• Carls Junior: The more that drips on your shirt, the less you have to taste.
• GM: Please buy a car to support our repair shops and failing pension fund.
• Linux: None of your games will work, but you can be smug that you don’t run Windows.
• Flickr: Creepy people are doing creepy things while looking at your family photos right now.
• Macintosh: No games to buy, but you can be smug that you don’t run Windows.
• U.S. Congress: Vote for a lawyer who craves power and will have tremendous influence over your economic well-being.
• inkBlots: Might as well read it if you’re not going to be productive today.

- M

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