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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.

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

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.

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.

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 #item2084">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&#39;s #resourceTypes">text resources. A resource is like a Manila/Radio shortcut: it&#39;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&#39;quote&#39;:

<-[#if](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/if) condition="ioInterface&[#39](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/39);email&[#39](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/39);"-->
----- quote --<-[#else](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/else)--><blockquote><-[#endif](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/endif)-->

If the post is being rendered for email, it inserts the "----quote----" text, otherwise it renders the blockquote tag. A partner resource called&#39;endquote&#39; 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.

iTunes 4: AAC encoding.

Oy. Somehow on my last crash, NetNewsWire lost its subscription data long with many of my preferences. Now I'm piecing together my 130+ subscriptions from NetNewsWire's cache...

Ok, Jodi and got here to the Apple Store as Steve was wrapping up the last four months of products.

Napster, KaZaA. Convenient but is stealing.

I know, I haven't been posting lately. But today is Apple's big music-related announcement, for which broadcast Jodi and I are going to the Chandler Apple Store. Yay!

Ok, I haven't had a really BAD (all capital letters) day for a long time until yesterday, and yesterday sucked.

This weekend Bill and I went mountain biking over to the Cave Creek Dam (1922, present day). It was an awesome ride with diverse terrain, including cross country, hard packed trails, gorges, and the large wash in front of the dam.

Mmmmm, coffee. Wireless coffee. Jodi and I are hanging at the Coffee Rush, a local coffee shop with free wireless internet access. Yummy!

Yeah, yeah, the real unix admins make backups of any file they're going to delete. And if they're just testing, they don't actually delete the file, they just move it or rename it. I, on the other hand, am still waking up and got a tad enthusiastic.

I've been trying to diversify my NetNewsWire habits. Recently added:

• Joshua Allen, MSFT: Better Living Through Software
• Andy and Dave, the Pragmatic Programmers

"In other words," said Wil Shipley, President of The Omni Group, "it'sone of those releases that's got plenty of cool stuff, absolutely none of which makes for good press release copy. But you should stilldownload it, because it makes things better in a multitude of small ways." OmniOutliner 2.2.1 is out.

"In other words," said Wil Shipley, President of The Omni Group, "it'sone of those releases that's got plenty of cool stuff, absolutely none of which makes for good press release copy. But you should stilldownload it, because it makes things better in a multitude of small ways." OmniOutliner 2.2.1 is out.

Oh, crap. He finally got me to check this out. Before, I only had to whine when this wasn't updated. Now I can jones for Sluggy Freelance, too.

I know it's old hat by now for many, but I really like the new Macromedia.com website. It uses Flash in a good way, IMO. It's intereesting, integrated, but I don't feel like I'm forced to use it to get around the site. Tasteful.