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After losing two hard drives in rapid succession, I figured it was time to start giving some serious thought to my backup plan. I have been rsyncing my documents, pictures, and active projects folders to my local Debian server for a while now so neither drive loss was that critical, but it drove home the fact that while I like to think my systems are bulletproof, there's no such thing.

Just a quick note to let everyone know I have released version 3.1 of my Configurable Tag Cloud plugin. This isn't a major update, it just adds the ability to output the links for the cloud to an array for further processing. I have included a simple example over on the CTC as well as the new version for download.

Want to run a simple website using Wordpress Pages as a CMS, but don't want (or need) the Post functionality? Want to do the same thing, but have Posts secondary to pages? This is the plugin for you. This plugin rewrites the Admin menu links for Write and Manage to default to using Pages instead of posts, while leaving the ability to deal with posts intact.

I'm working on a theme for a well-known webcomic (sorry, can't say which yet), and needed the post navigation template tags in Wordpress to behave differently. No one could point to an easy way to get them to work the way I needed them to, so I whipped up a quick plugin that changes the way these tags work.

Many thanks to the Wordpress community for pushing my humble little widget/plugin past the 1,000 downloads mark since I added it to the official Wordpress plugins browser. As of this morning, it has been downloaded 1,002 times since November 28th. YOU GUYS ROCK! :)

I'm proud to announce the third major revision of my configurable tag cloud widget has been released this afternoon. The biggest change (and one of the most requested) is the ability to use the plugin without using widgets. It's been a long time coming, and now it's here. the other big addition is the ability to show the number of posts for a tag after the tag itself (similar to the archive and categories options).

Apparently, Queensryche has a new album out...of nothing but covers...:)

Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up on the status of CTC. I'm still working on it when I can, but I gotta pay the bills. I'm hoping for a 3.0 release just after the first of the year. The big new feature in 3.0 is going to be (hopefully) implementing the tag cloud as a normal Wordpress plugin, so it can be used by those who don't use widgets.

I've been on a black and white photography kick lately. I don't know what triggered it, but I can't get enough of well-done monochrome photos. I did this one tonight based on a photo I took of a Lilac shrub in my front yard.

I did quite a bit of manipulation in Photoshop to the original shot to get this output, but I think the results are worth it.