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Heads up from: blog.bookmach.com (latest swag from the internets)

Musicovery is a flash application that lets you select the mood and energy of the music you would like to hear, and takes you to the appropriate song. It then meanders progressively along the genre path so you can explore multiple artists who have a similar sound

I stumbled this one from one of my newest additions in my Bloglines .. at 9:00am .. and it’s now 10:10am and I’m quite hooked on this site! What a great idea for an online internet radio. I am just letting it play itself. And .. if I don’t like the song? I slide the cursor a little to the left .. or maybe the right .. or..

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I have finally figured out why my RSS Feed has NOT been working since my upgrade from wordpress version 1.5.2 directly to wordpress 2.0.5

I was concerned of the problem being one created by me making such a vast jump in versions in wordpress that was the problem .. or the vast jump in the feedburner plugin or feedburner itself having problems.

It turns out that my old version of plugins included Denis de Bernardy’s “Related” series of plugins that you see at the end of each post (Related Searches, Related Entries, and Related Tags) did not include the additional plugin “Related Entries For Feeds” .. and I activated all four of them - instead of just the three that I had before.

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Update is now complete ..

I have followed my previous instructions, converting from 1.5.2. directly to 2.0.4 .. and it worked converting it directly to the latest version 2.0.5.

There was one casualty - that I overlooked.

My DEMOCRACY plugin, which was for the poll question in the sidebar - got trashed. I believe it was because it was the old version 1.2 upgraded to the latest version 2.0.1 .. I’m not bitter though, although I wish I could have taken a snapshot picture of the results to date because .. it’s lost forever now.

It was a question asking what type of accounting software people were using out there in business, SOHO, and the real world. Unfortunately, I discount its results because it was there almost 11 months and I only received something like 70 votes. But .. I appreciate all the input from voters in the past and perhaps I will resurrect a similar poll in 2007!

Other than that? Everything looks like it is working perfectly - however, if you notice anything unusual or funny looking with this blog .. please leave a comment or let me know by email …. hart (at) 1800HART (dot) com …

Take care!

That’s right .. I said “CONTACT FORM SPAM” … not “COMMENT SPAM”

I have no idea why people would try to spam blogs through their contact form.

Basically, if you have a wordpress blog .. you can get the WP - Contact Form Plugin and activate it. Rather than placing your email address anywhere on your blog (for spammers to pick up and spam you) .. there is a neat little form where people can contact you. The information is emailed directly to you by your wordpress blog, and you do not have to worry about giving your email away to the person filling out the contact form - as they will be redirected to a thank-you page.

Personally .. I think all businesses should have some generic email addresses similar to their domain name .. like info@yourdomainurl.com .. or, maybe not as generic as that .. I’d use people’s first names. You can create an unlimited number of email addresses these days .. Why not? Then use alternate means to avoid spam. I use Eudora Lite v.7 and the plugin Spamnix to block my spam .. plus my servers all have their own spam blocking software installed anyway.

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Well .. Monday, May 1, 2006 was the deadline here in Canada for most individuals to file their income return, and myself well - my last E-File was sent at 11:56pm.

Here’s how my TO-DO list now stands ..

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