The best laid plans...

Well, all isn't going according to plan with my integrated wireless contest, but we're still kicking butt and lots of people are participating in our promo. Unfortunately, the XML I'm getting is behind an HTTPS URL, which .NET XmlDocument object's don't like because they can't inherently establish a trust relationship with the remote server. We had planned to move the feed to a non-secure URL to alleviate this, but I guess things got too tough at the last minute. Dang. Our concept of the data being truly "live" is right out the window. And I don't have the time to hack out the workaround.

As I'm writing this, we're in the middle of our 40-minute voting period while the modeling contestants vie for people's affection. More than 100 people have voted so far, and I'm having to manually save/reupload the XML file to my server to get the results to update properly. No bother...we're still accomplishing our goals.

It's just requiring a little more manual input than I had planned. So much for "work smarter, not harder".