Christophe Ducamp posted about a recommendation for a French variation on POSH: CHIC, or'Code HTML Intrinsèquement Classe', which I think roughly translates to "Instrinsically Classy HTML Code". (Idea from Stéphane Gigandet) Sounds good to me!
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
(My French is over 15 years old, so if I screwed up the "Êtes-Vous" will someone please correct me?)
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I've finally updated my about page, with some new information, hcard marked-up content, and (for posterity's sake) a copy of my first about page ever.
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Ethan Kaplan at BlackRimGlasses has a post up about the major newspaper losing circulation. Feedburner (I think) thought they'd be funny with the feed ads, and this is what I saw in Google Reader a few minutes ago:
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Peggy Noonan - The Blogs Must Be Crazy. She makes a ton of good points, for example:
>In newspapers you have to go to the editor, explain to him why the paper should have another piece on the Eason Jordan affair, spend a day reporting it, only to find that all that's new today is that reporter Michelle Malkin got an interview with Barney Frank. That's not enough to merit 10 inches of newspaper space, so the Times doesn't carry what the blogosphere had 24 hours ago. In the old days a lot of interesting information fell off the editing desk in this way. Now it doesn't.
This is an inspiring article. Thanks Seth! (Oh, and Dave too.)
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The iTunes Music Store has a 3 minute montage of track snippets from R.E.M's upcoming album, Around The Sun. I can't wait.
>Get a free taste of R.E.M's new album, Around The Sun, with an iTunes-exclusive album sampler. This world premiere, "Around The Sun Redux," packs snippets of "Leaving New York," "Around The Sun," "Wanderlust," "Electron Blue," and "I wanted to Be Wrong" into one 3-minute melodic treat. Get it while it's hot, only on iTunes.
The album is due for release Oct. 4-5.
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I've updated our adoption How To Help page with a link to a language CD Jodi and I are interested in:
Argh!! NBC finally kills the last reason to turn to channel 12, as they remove #39;Boomtown' from their lineup. Boomtown was my best reason to watch TV, actually tied with CBS's
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quoteIt's crazy what you could had, crazy what you could have had...
I need this, I need thisendquote
Country Feedback is one of my all-time favorite R.E.M. songs, from the album Out Of Time.
Of the 5 versions I have, the best one I think is a live recording from Atlanta, August 31, 1999. Michael Stipe's vocals are ragged and haunting, the live, loose, setting lends an even more desperate tone to an already impassioned lyric.
Peter Buck's guitar work goes on and on, with a lot more distortion, reverb, and yes, feedback than the (now seemingly) anemic album version. He plays all around the melody, lurching through his signature arpeggios, and even getting a decent solo feel to it, which was never his strong point.
One of the things I love about this song is it's determinedly languid pace. It flows and flows, Stipe's extra lyrics and vocalizations toward the end slide along on top of the music, drawing you in.
In my mind's eye I see the wooden shack above the bank slide by as the river carries me past - slow, green, and cyprus-choked...
No time to blog this properly, but Bill blogs an IM conversation we had about Mark Pilgrim's "Winer Watch". See Bill's site for links.
Dave points to this Ed Cone entry and hilites Ed's remark about running for office.
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.
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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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It looks like Apple may be announcing shortly a new music service for Mac/iPod owners, using label-approved music and non-mp3 format. Argh.
Apple had so much going for it - the whole digital hub thing, iTunes, iPod. Do they know it was MP3 support that made iTunes so frikkin popular? I wonder if they will continue to support MP3? I guess we'll see what happens.
More links: San Jose Mercury, Mac Observer, Slashdot.
[via Chris]
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Migraine Awareness Group: a National Understanding for Migraineurs (MAGNUM). Good informative site for migraine sufferers ("migraineurs").
Jodi gets 3 or 4 multi-day migraines each month, and we're looking for treatments more effective and less expensive than Maxalt.
Peace and blessings to our family members and dear friends! We truly serve a loving, holy, and awesome God whose blessings never cease and whose goodness knows no limit!
We hope to communicate some of the ways that He has blessed us in the past year or so.
We moved from Portsmouth, Virginia to Tempe, Arizona in October, 2001. We made this rather dramatic move because Steve accepted a position doing some specialized web development work for U-Haul in central Phoenix. God's grace was abundant from the beginning. Our house in Portsmouth sold fairly quickly. In Arizona, We found a wonderful church within weeks and felt God knitting us into the body of Christ here.
In February, we bought a house in Gilbert, AZ a little further East from Tempe, in a lovely neighborhood with attractive lakes, walking paths,a park,and nice landscaping.
We really like it in Arizona especially the beautiful sunshine and drier weather. But mostly we felt that the Lord had His hand on us and brought us here to work out His purposes in us.
Jodi took a job working for Re-Mac Computers from January through May helping them launch their software training programs at two locations. It was an enjoyable job, but Jodi desired to focus on some other things and resigned in early May. Soon after that Steve lost the job at U-Haul (about mid-June), and our lives have taken some interesting and unexpected turns.
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Heh. You'll have to read most of this page to find the reference (or cheat and go here), but I like Mark Byron's writing and his daily Biblical and political commentary. Good food for thought.
Read more about Mr. (no, wait, Dr.) Byron here.
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Sorry folks - if you're reading this site via an RSS aggregator such as NetNewsWire, I managed to break my feed tonight, and the descriptions have gone AWOL. Please check in at http://www.redmonk.net/ for all the latest.
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Although I got the web application book for PHP, I'm starting with the online PHP Manual. It's probably the best step-by-step guide to a new language I've ever seen.
This is also confirming my long-held belief that languages are easy. APIs are hard. PHP is basically a tame perl. Nooooo problem. I bet it's going to take me a while though to get into the flow with the PHP APIs for things like database manipulation, networking, etc. That's where the book I picked up will help.
[via bbum's rants, code & references] A new version of Accessorizer came out today. It is a very useful little app that, given a variable declaration, generates the various random Obj-C idioms that developers have to create over and over and over again when building Cocoa/ObjC apps. (link)
[via bbum's rants, code & references] A new version of Accessorizer came out today. It is a very useful little app that, given a variable declaration, generates the various random Obj-C idioms that developers have to create over and over and over again when building Cocoa/ObjC apps. (link)
