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Countdown 1.3 and the Plugin Version Service
February 24, 2006

On the #wordpress channel on IRC, someone had requested some adjustments to the Countdown plugin that I wrote a while back, so I took a look at that project and decided to make a few small updates.

Countdown displays a list of dates to remember. You create a list of events, and Countdown outputs those events on your blog. The events can recur, so you can put in single dates like “06-04 Owen’s Birthday (Observed)” and it will show that on the same day every year.

There are some more complex recurring settings, too, like the ever helpful:

1st sun apr Daylight Savings Starts

Note that this event recurs on the first Sunday of every April.

Previous users will recognize these settings from before, but I have added a few new little things to sweten up the plugin.

Food Culture
February 23, 2006
food

'1991 Shafer Hillside Select' by Thomas HawkMaybe Abby has it right.

A year or two ago, I mentioned to friends that I was getting tired of using food as an event. It seemed that every time there was a special occasion, we would celebrate by eating something. The meal was usually dinner, and we were usually eating out at a nicer or unusual restaurant.

It’s not that the food wasn’t good, or the company wasn’t good, or the setting wasn’t good - What bothered me is that every time we were doing something, a big deal was made about food.

How Embarrassing
February 18, 2006

To make reservations for a Meetup that only 4 people need to show up for, and then have nobody come. Thanks a lot, WordPress gang, for coming out and keeping me company and not making me look like a doofus.

I’m gonna hang around for the Philly Blogger guys (unless this is some kind of weird joke - in which case…) who like to spend time out in the world. Color me bitter, but I see this WordPress group coming slowly to an end, not that it ever really got off the ground.