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Dave points to this Ed Cone entry and hilites Ed’s remark about running for office.

D I G I T A L L Y - I M P O R T E D - European Trance, Techno, Hi-NRG: This is one of my favorite net radio stations. if you have iTunes, you can find it under Radio > Electronica, though it’s really Trance Techno. Lots of beats, grinds, and other trancey stuff to get your groove on.

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D I G I T A L L Y - I M P O R T E D - European Trance, Techno, Hi-NRG: This is one of my favorite net radio stations. if you have iTunes, you can find it under Radio > Electronica, though it’s really Trance Techno. Lots of beats, grinds, and other trancey stuff to get your groove on.

The Coffee Rush… mmmm.

So Scoble says:quoteOf course, you’re welcome to tell me “you suck” via email anytime.endquote So I did! I hadn’t seen him on AIM in a while, and so I (very tongue-in-cheek) accused him of ceasing his AOL IM activities because he’s going to work for Microsoft.

Ouch. I’m working on a client’s site today and I find out that his hosting provider does not provide mod_rewrite. This is a sad day indeed. I’m currently pleading with tech support. Wish me luck.

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The Blogger fail-safe: pictures of your cat. In this case, Toby, our cute, lovable and ornery tabby.

I recently found a solution to a problem that had been bugging me for some time.

Conversant has this really cool email gateway - all posts to this site go out to anyone who is subscribed to the site and has the list feature turned on.

So, when I write a post like this one, the post goes out over email, and the <blockquote> tags are stripped. How do my subscribers know where the quote is?

To the rescue: Conversant‘s text resources. A resource is like a Manila/Radio shortcut: it’s a defined piece of text that gets replaced with something else when the content gets rendered. Resources are most often used for links and images, but Conversant has a powerful resource type called a Text Resource.

A text resource can have anything in it - html, text, and Conversant template macros. So I essentially write my own no-arg macro called ‘quote’:

<!–#if condition="ioInterface==‘email’"–>
—– quote –<!–#else–><blockquote><!–#endif–>

If the post is being rendered for email, it inserts the "—-quote—-" text, otherwise it renders the blockquote tag. A partner resource called ‘endquote’ inserts "——" or the closing blockquote tag.

Now, when excerpting text, I start the excerpt with |quote| and close it with |endquote|, and it gets rendered legibly both on the site and in the list email.

rdiv_start I just finished a site for a buddy of mine, David Sleigh. His site, The Microphone Riots, is at http://www.davidsleigh.com (or here until the dns propogates).

Keola Donaghy sums up my feelings on Apple’s Music Store exactly: quote…please don’t ignore the greater potential of this service to level the playing field for artists and smaller labels who cannot get the attention of the major labels that are now available on your service.endquote