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Do you speak a language other than English? If so, you might be able to solve a mystery. Read on to find out more.

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Anyone who has spent more than five minutes on the Web knows that it provides access to a huge amount of information, some of which is even accurate. However, despite the fact that you can learn much by reading, there are still some things that you can only grok through experience. After reading yet another article about the benefits of meditation, and realizing that I spend way too much time learning by reading newsfeeds and social news networking sites instead of by experiencing things directly, I decided it was time to experience meditation.

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A World War II bomber flies overhead. “Cool,” I think to myself. “That must be a clue.” I get out my digital camera in anticipation of another, and am shortly rewarded with a nice photo of a low-flying vintage bomber.

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I’m pleased to announce Version 1.1 of the Copyright Plugin for WordPress. If you want to insure that your copyright notices automatically display the correct dates in WordPress, then you need this plugin.

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.Thomas Alva Edison

If you’re reading this then you’re probably avoiding doing something else more important. Most of us have over-full lives; we divide our time among family, work, friends, neighbors, clubs, hobbies, recreation, exercise, and on and on. Every day is a challenge to fulfill all of the committments pulling us in different directions.

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I’m pleased to announce Version 1.0 of the Copyright Plugin for WordPress. If you want to insure that your copyright notices automatically display the correct dates in WordPress, then you need this plugin.

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One of the wonderful things about WordPress is its extensibility–hundreds of free plugins for WordPress are available. Now that I’ve used WordPress for a few months I have settled on a set of plugins that allow WordPress to function well according to my needs. Of those, there are a core set of plugins that I feel are essential for just about any WordPress installation. Following is my recommended list of WordPress plugins.

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Many RSS feed aggregators (like Bloglines, for example) alphabetize the feed names that you’re subscribed to. If you set up WordPress and test your RSS feeds in such a news reader, you’ll notice that your main feed and your comments feed are probably not listed next to each other. To make it easier for your loyal readers to track what’s going on with your site, those feeds should be sorted alphabetically so that they clump together. Read on for a quick solution.

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I’m pleased to announce the Copyright Plugin version 0.9 (beta) for WordPress. If you want to insure that your copyright notices display the correct dates in WordPress, then you may find this little plugin useful.

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If you’re one of the many right-minded geeks who uses Emacs, you have an advantage over those who use less-flexible text editors. Anyone staring at code all day long will soon suffer from tired eyes. If you use Emacs, though, you can use a macro that I wrote that may help alleviate the problem.

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