I have been keeping an eye on the development of WordPress 2.7 which brings in several new and very cool features.  A lot of that is behind the scenes in the Admin section, but some of it will be readily available.  A new system for Comments is one of the features I’ve been excited about.

So, a big congratulations! to the WordPress Team!  Here’s their write-up on the release.  They’ve worked really hard, and I’m jazzed to see what all it holds.  I’ll be upgrading soon.  This will also be a test to see if my first publicly released WordPress theme, Contender, survives the upgrade without needing a fix

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I banged my head against several walls on this a while back and finally gave up.  Today I found this post over at bin-co.com describing how to capture the contents of an include file to a variable.  Here’s the code…thanks Binny!

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There is a neat article over at Techrepublic on their Geek Trivia series on the history of the ZIP code.   It’s a quick/interesting read, and the trivia question behind the history lesson is: Who is the only fictional character to receive his/her own ZIP code?

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First off, I’d like to thank all of you who drop my little blog.  I don’t have tons of readers, so each and every one of you brings a little chunk of joy to me.  That said, after 6 days of off and on network problems with my old web host, I decided to move Whypad.com and SugarDo.com (my to-do list site) to Media Temple grid service.

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I’d like to point up a blog post by Leonard Richardson who pulled together a list of “where are they nows” on programmers who were interviewed for the 1986 book, Programmers at Work. I find it irresistably interesting to see the paths that people’s lives take. The list is a who’s who of programmers who created seminal works like VisiCalc, C/PM, Lotus 1-2-3, and Pac-Man.

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