Monkinetic Weblog

Jodi, dear that she is, has been picking up my blogging slack lately over on . She's covered our visit to Paulo Soleri's Arcosanti, my mom's plans for an Ivy Family portal, as well as a site of her own, and she's reviewed X-Men 2, which we saw yesterday (hint- it rocked!). If posting seems slack here, for the latest!

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&#39;s 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 condition="ioInterface&#39;email&#39;"-->
----- 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&#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.

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

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

Bill Bumgarner, who was recently looking for a new weblogging tool, talks about the spate of suggestions he got.

Random Stuff:

• Thanks to Scoble linking to this post, I'm now #41 on Popdex. I'll be gone in a couple days, but it's been fun!
• TidBITS is looking for a CMS, Zope/Plone mentioned as a possibility.
• I rode 16 miles yesterday, in 1 hour, 20 minutes. My longest ride this year.

Clever, and interesting. Mike Sanders has posted a webloggers' version of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It's split into several different posts, so start from the list on Ton's Interdependent Thoughts.

Jodi posted last night about an Iranian woman we got to spend last evening with. She and her family survived the ten year war with Iraq, and had to flee their homes on the Iran/Iraq border when Saddam's troops came. It was fascinating to hear.

Jodi had a job interview yesterday. She's not taking it though, and she reports on that and other news on her site today.

Ok, I'm on my second cup already because I got distracted. After noticing Scoble's link to Joel on Software, I decided to read Joel's most recent email article, on Building Communities with Software. It got me thinking about how the forum on this site works. I may make some changes around here but I'm not sure yet.

Cory Doctorow over at BoingBoing linked to Sean McMains' oh-so-cool Arcade game PC. Awesome stuff!

We all thought the Space Shuttle was fast, but we had no idea.

Morbus blogs a comment I made in irc about this.

jmtee has a blog entry where he mirrors some of David Hyatt's (Safari team member) comments regarding why Apple went with KHTML over the Gecko rendering engine. David has since taken down his post, so there's some question as to why, but the stuff jmtee mirrored is insightful.

Cool, David (Rys) McCusker got himself hooked up with voice recog. software, so he's dictating his blog now.

Following a megnut link about a job listing Meg posted to Craig's List, I found that the Craig's List site is really cool. It seems to be a site that allows the creation of online communities - there's a big one for New York, one for Phoenix, etc. I think I'm going to add this site to my collection of places to look for jobs. I noticed that the few postings I looked at were written in a person's voice - not the Recruiter-droid&trademark lingo you hear on most other job sites.

Jeneane Sessum is looking for a palmtop device that is designed for blogging. In the comments, someone suggests Danger's HipTop (sold by T-Mobile as the SideKick).

spiritual-chemotherapy

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.

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.

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Heh. You&#39;ll have to read most of this page to find the reference (or cheat and go here), but I like Mark Byron&#39;s writing and his daily Biblical and political commentary. Good food for thought.

Read more about Mr. (no, wait, Dr.) Byron here.