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Phil Ringnalda discovers the D.I.Y. spirit of 1980’s Punk Rock…

Mark goes crazy again. I love it when Mark goes crazy, it usually results in some sort of useful insight. Now, to address the XHTML thing, and what’s-with-XML part of it. I author in XHTML, which is XML. At some point (in theory) the tools will come along to make use of this, you know, because it’s XML. That’s what they say, right? Well, today I use jEdit, a text editor. It’s got some tools for dealing with XML. These can be useful tools. It can tell me when I’m writing crappy XML. It doesn’t care when I write crappy HTML. It is because everyone writes crappy HTML? No, it’s because it knows how to deal with XML and what the rules of XML are. Sure HTML has some rules, it’s just that almost no one seems to follow these rules. I have more confidence in new useful tools supporting XML/XHTML than I do for useful tools supporting HTML. but maybe that’s just me…

So I’ll be out in the D.C. area next week. The last time I was in D.C. was about 10 years ago. I saw Pat Grahm, I changed the tire on the van, I upset the guitarist from Verbal Assault (well, he wasn’t in Verbal Assault at that time) played a show with Born Against, used food stamps, and spent some quality time folding J-cards. Oh, and I managed to watch a 6 hour video on the subject of 7 Seconds being on tour. When I told the locals I watched the whole thing, they we’re quite amazed, as even though they owned the video tape in question, none of them seemed to be able to claim they watched the whole thing. I saw no landmarks of great significance while there. The only history I learned concerned Kevin Seconds and his acquaintances.

Oh, and I got a Rain Like the Sound of Trains demo… That was probably the highlight.

I stayed up much too late last night, as I heard that Dashboard Confessional was going to be on Last Call with Carson Daly. Now, I hate that show, and I always switch channels after Conan is done, but had to try to see Scott Schoenbeck on national television, even it if was 1 A.M. (and I figured it was making up for missing Davey and his Ring band not once, but twice on Late Night…)

I’ll say this of Dashboard Confessional, I didn’t like them. I mean sure, the kids seemed to dig it, the boys swayed, the girls swooned, and some even sung along, but really, it had none of the raw power or sensibility of Self Denial, none of the grace or character of the original Cleveland Bound Death Sentence… Scott, where’s that Sears employee we once knew? Where will Blood, Guts, Death Inc. shop for those much needed dismemberment tools?

“Stop by Sears, I’ll sell you some hardware” indeed…

(For the 99.999998% of the readership that has no idea what I’m talking about, just ignore this one…)

I had to share this. This is a reply to an email, that uh, someone I know, got from their previous boss. (The boss has been replaced.)

it sounds like ur contradicting urself – u say it is possible to use back
button… then u say its not “This will not work:

Fill in Page 1, Submit, get to Page 2″

im confused

who said u needed good commun skillz 2 b in mngmnt!?