Just thought I'd share the simplest little algorithm ever with you guys. I created this little cutey for the blogging part of my personal site (coming soon ;) - I use it for generating unique, semi-sequential identifiers for my blog posts...
public static string GenerateId()
{
string ticks = DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString();
string temp = "";
for ( int i = 0; i < ticks.Length; i++ )
{
if ( ( i % 3 ) == 0 )
{
temp += ticks[i];
}
}
return temp;
}