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BitZipper
July 08, 2004

t might surprise you to learn that among the few software packages I pay for you will find a zip utility. This could be surprising because there are so many free zip utilities out there. The thing is, I really like this one.

BitZipper 4.1 is one fo the better tools for zipping I’ve used. It lets you combine many files into a single file that takes up less space than the total of all the files combined. Zip files are useful for transmitting a set of files (especially text, which compresses down to very small sizes) all at once.

Kid Two's First Pictures
July 08, 2004

I guess there might be a considerable number of family visitors that might like to see these pictures. They’re not much to look at. Although, while we were at the ultrasound, they did tell us the gender of our forthcoming child. But, Ha! I’m not going to tell you whether he’s a boy or a girl. D’oh!

Oh, well, it turns out I didn’t hold the camera still enough. I’ll post scans of the printouts later. I should’ve just asked for the pictures on disk, huh?

Baby Names v2.0
July 07, 2004

I was suposed to have created a voting page for baby names long before now, and I’m just a slacker.

Anyway, I’ve at least assembled some of the names that Berta and I like. These are not all of the names that we might choose from, nor are all of these names contenders. For example, there is no way that I would name my son Warren. No. Way.

I wasn’t going to differentiate who had picked what names, but I will mention that I did not pick any boys names that begin with “W”. Not to point any fingers at Berta or anybody.

Nonetheless, here is what we’ve got so far. I would be surprised if the actual name we use is not in amongst these names. Right now for a girl’s name, I’m favoring Darcy. And for a boy, I still like Darien, but Riley is pretty cool.

In case it hasn’t dawned on you why any of this is important, tomorrow is the ultrasound, and we may find out whether it is a boy or girl. It might be a bad idea to reveal which it is until we get some good names on both sides, because we don’t want to be surprised in November and have to choose one at random. But we’ll see. Anyway, the names:

Project-Blog Troubles
July 07, 2004

It looks like the Project-Blog thing is going to be a pain in the butt.

If you wanted to donate to my cause, you would have to create an account, which requires providing an email address. A message is sent to that address, which you must respond to before you can pledge any donation to my charity. This seems like an incredible hassle. I think that only really dedicated folks will go through the trouble of creating accounts and whatnot, and when I did it myself, I had all sorts of issues.

Sticky Posts
July 07, 2004

I wrote a new plugin for WordPress that lets you mark posts as sticky very easily. A sticky post is one that appears at the top of the output all of the time.

It’s different from most of the other sticky stuff I’ve seen for two reasons: It doesn’t require you to edit any WordPress source, and you only have to check a box on the editing interface to make a post stick. Most other plugins insist that you make changes to the somewhat delicate WordPress post querying code, or type something into a meta field to get a post to stick. Not this.