today, my feed reader died. it only showed me an empty window where my feeds should be. So i tried Google Reader again. amazingly, it felt more responsive than RSS Bandit. my archive of read posts is in the 1000s. I like having access to them, and often use them in searches. This puts a heavy toll on memory usage. What hope is there for .net if an application written by a microsoft employee is such a memory hog, and gets its clock cleaned by an online application? none.