Seth is walking in the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life on May 30. He wants to raise $400 (he already has over $200 raised - go Seth!) for the walk - if you can help out, it'll be going to an awesome cause!

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.

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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.

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

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).

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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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.

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.

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

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.

Napster, KaZaA. Convenient but is stealing.

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.

iTunes 4: AAC encoding.

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.

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

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.