From gwadej at anomaly.org Sun Mar 2 06:24:13 2008 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 08:24:13 -0600 Subject: [pm-h] Fw: [pm_groups] Summer of Code -- volunteers needed Message-ID: <20080302082413.10df5d71@sovvan> Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 19:03:41 -0800 From: Eric Wilhelm To: pm_groups at pm.org Subject: [pm_groups] Summer of Code -- volunteers needed Hi all, Volunteer pledge drive! Please forward this to your local PM groups. TPF needs volunteers to make summer of code happen this year. It sounds like the administrators got stretched too thin in 2005 and 2006, and we really didn't have ourselves together in 2007. So, I'm proposing a departmental structure under a TPF umbrella, which will localize the cat-herding effects within various large projects (so far, parrot and Catalyst appear to be on board with this.) I would like to demonstrate that we have our act together this year, so we need to get a solid pool of administrative volunteers and mentors together before the 8th. Administrative needs: (Contact ewilhelm at cpan.org or join #soc on irc.perl.org.) * backup administrator (reduce the bus number) * Department heads for p5p, "modules", etc * Suggestions about department structure Mentors and project ideas needed: We need to get these pages populated before March 8th or it is quite likely to be a no-go. Potential mentors, please add yourselves and your project ideas here: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_mentors http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects If you hate wikis as much as I do, please visit this handy form and I will batch the wiki edits on your behalf. http://scratchcomputing.com/loveperlhatewiki.html Thanks, Eric -- We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals. --Quarry worker's creed --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com --------------------------------------------------- -- Request pm.org Technical Support via support at pm.org pm_groups mailing list pm_groups at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups -- DON'T PANIC! I'm a trained professional, and far more qualified to panic in this situation than you are. From gwadej at anomaly.org Mon Mar 3 17:12:58 2008 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:12:58 -0600 Subject: [pm-h] March Houston.pm Meeting Message-ID: <20080303191258.6c7395f2@sovvan> Wow! The last month has just flown by. I just realized that our next meeting is a week from tomorrow. Does anyone have a topic they would like to talk about? Do you want another hacking session on Net::Jabber::Bot? Do you want to have a social meeting? Vote now to pick a direction for the next meeting. G. Wade -- The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. -- Larry Wall From wiersema_t at yahoo.com Thu Mar 6 08:49:34 2008 From: wiersema_t at yahoo.com (Todd Wiersema) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:49:34 -0800 (PST) Subject: [pm-h] Houston Digest, Vol 40, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <102420.20452.qm@web65515.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Hi, I'd like to visit and meet some other folks that use perl. (No pun intended.) > > Wow! The last month has just flown by. I just > realized that our next > meeting is a week from tomorrow. > > Does anyone have a topic they would like to talk > about? Anyone in the group gotten far with perlTK? Had much luck with perl compilers? Todd - Have a nice day! :) - ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs From gwadej at anomaly.org Thu Mar 6 18:12:09 2008 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:12:09 -0600 Subject: [pm-h] Houston Digest, Vol 40, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: <102420.20452.qm@web65515.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> References: <102420.20452.qm@web65515.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20080306201209.60701ae2@sovvan> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:49:34 -0800 (PST) Todd Wiersema wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'd like to visit and meet some other folks that use > perl. (No pun intended.) Hi Todd. Welcome to Houston.pm. Our next meeting is in next Tuesday. We're currently in discussions trying to decide whether to have a technical meeting this month or a social meeting. > > Wow! The last month has just flown by. I just > > realized that our next > > meeting is a week from tomorrow. > > > > Does anyone have a topic they would like to talk > > about? > > Anyone in the group gotten far with perlTK? Personally, I'm no expert with Perl Tk, but I have used it years ago. Back in 2004, we had a talk on Perl Tk (http://houston.pm.org/talks/2004talks/0409Talk/index.htm). Hopefully, it can provide a little help. I'm sure if there's anyone with more experience, they'll jump in before too long. > Had much luck with perl compilers? I can't say much about this subject. But, someone else might...anyone? G. Wade -- To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question ... or is it? From gwadej at anomaly.org Sat Mar 8 06:10:43 2008 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 08:10:43 -0600 Subject: [pm-h] Houston Digest, Vol 40, Issue 2 Message-ID: <20080308081043.0fbcba43@sovvan> Forwarded from Mike Flannigan , who appears to be having technical difficulties. I use Par. Not very often because I often don't need it. And when I do need it it only works about 50% of the time. Even with fairly simple scripts it often has problems. I can't find my notes about what happened last time I used it. On some machines it worked fine, but on others it gave some screwy error. If you are brave enough to run an executable from somebody else, here is the file: http://www.mflan.com/wof.exe It runs for me (Win2000), but not for many other people. Don't flame me to bad about the code. I wrote it pretty quickly and didn't iron it out too much. It will write a small text file to c: ( root, if I remember correctly). Mike From gwadej at anomaly.org Sun Mar 9 09:02:00 2008 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:02:00 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] March Social Meeting Message-ID: <20080309110200.37d981be@sovvan> Since we haven't gotten any response on the technical meeting this month, let's make it a social meeting. We normally meet at Bennigan's on Kirby at 59 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=3963+Kirby+Dr,+Houston,+TX&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.799322,67.851563&ie=UTF8&ll=29.731309,-95.41862&spn=0.011776,0.016565&z=16 Come meet some of the group, bring questions, stories, or just a willingness to chat. We'll meet at Bennigan's sometime after 6pm on Tuesday (Mar. 11). Ask for the Wade party. See you there. G. Wade -- It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. -- Richard Feynman From toddr at null.net Sun Mar 9 16:25:39 2008 From: toddr at null.net (Todd Rinaldo) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 18:25:39 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] March Social Meeting In-Reply-To: <20080309110200.37d981be@sovvan> References: <20080309110200.37d981be@sovvan> Message-ID: Sorry on the slow reply. social sounds good. see you tuesday. Todd On Mar 9, 2008, at 11:02 AM, G. Wade Johnson wrote: > Since we haven't gotten any response on the technical meeting this > month, let's make it a social meeting. > > We normally meet at Bennigan's on Kirby at 59 > http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=3963+Kirby+Dr,+Houston,+TX&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.799322,67.851563&ie=UTF8&ll=29.731309,-95.41862&spn=0.011776,0.016565&z=16 > > Come meet some of the group, bring questions, stories, or just a > willingness to chat. > > We'll meet at Bennigan's sometime after 6pm on Tuesday (Mar. 11). Ask > for the Wade party. > > See you there. > G. Wade > -- > It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how > smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. > -- Richard Feynman > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ Todd Rinaldo toddr at null.net From fluhmann at gmail.com Wed Mar 12 11:15:21 2008 From: fluhmann at gmail.com (Jeremy Fluhmann) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:15:21 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Open Source Symposium 2008 - Registration Open Message-ID: <7f7c2d5e0803121115t6096dc5cl642a2477b98bdbef@mail.gmail.com> Registration is now open for the 2008 Open Source Symposium! Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, attendance will be free! Although it's free, we still ask that you register. This helps us keep a headcount for conference program guides, shirts, snacks, etc. The Open Source Symposium is an inexpensive one-day conference offering > talks on various aspects of open source, such as software, development, and > best practices. Some talk topics include Perl, Python, Ubuntu, LAMP, version > control, and contributing to open source. Through the generosity of our > sponsors and open source community members, we are able to keep attendance > costs low and event quality high. > > The symposium gives attendees the opportunity to mingle with open source > users and notable contributors to the open source community. Many of which > are local to Texas. The 2008 Open Source Symposium will be held Saturday, > April 26, at the C J Davidson Conference Center located on the Angelo State > University campus. > To register, please visit the registration pageon the site. Also, don't forget to check out the speaker biosand presentation abstracts ! Thanks, Jeremy Open Source Symosium 2008 http://www.texasoss.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/private/houston/attachments/20080312/455b9bf1/attachment.html From gwadej at anomaly.org Tue Mar 18 05:04:15 2008 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:04:15 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Fw: [pm_groups] Summer of Perl -- call for student proposals Message-ID: <20080318070415.312efa2a@sovvan> Perl announcement for Google Summer of Code. Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:55:24 -0700 From: Eric Wilhelm To: "PM Groups" Subject: [pm_groups] Summer of Perl -- call for student proposals Hi all, Please forward this to your groups. (Also feel free to break into a discussion as to whether or how students are involved in the perl community, what we can do to connect with more universities and etc.) The Perl Foundation is participating in Google's 2008 Summer of Code(tm) and we have a lot of capable, willing mentors looking forward to working with some talented, driven students. So, we would like you to help find those students (and quickly -- the students must apply before March 24th.) This is a rare opportunity for students to get a chance to get a paid summer of hacking on exciting projects like Parrot, Perl 6, Moose, Jifty, SVK, Catalyst, or their very own Perl modules or applications. It also brings new talent into the community and gives the student a hefty "real world" experience with a knowledgable mentor. Further, employers love to see this sort of demonstration of teamwork, handling deadlines, communication skills, resourcefulness and etc. We're looking for promising students who are interested in open source (or maybe you know someone who *should* be interested in open source.) Knowledge of Perl is optional if the project is Parrot-related. The student doesn't need to be an expert in the problem domain (after all, learning is part of the process), but should bring a big pile of creativity, problem-solving skills, and determination. Students should review the page of suggested projects, but are encouraged to bring their own proposals (those are often the best.) The most important first step is getting in touch with the community and discussing their project idea with potential mentors. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects Additional information and links can be found here. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008 Google has posted some flyers if you happen to have a university bulletin board or hallway handy: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers Additional info: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html (Note that google has particular requirements to do with the fact that they are paying the students. The student must be able to show their eligibility regarding enrollment and employability.) Remember, the Perl community draws talent from many fields, so if you came to Perl from a non-computer-science major and still have contacts in that department from your university, it is probably worth mentioning to them. Thanks, Eric -- Request pm.org Technical Support via support at pm.org pm_groups mailing list pm_groups at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups -- Perl isn't really about safety. It's about getting where you're going, and enjoying the trip. It's more important to be a good driver than to have seven feet of sponge rubber all around your car. -- Larry Wall From lashan.arceneaux at gmail.com Mon Mar 24 12:05:01 2008 From: lashan.arceneaux at gmail.com (LaShan Arceneaux) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:05:01 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Perl Developers needed - Houston, TX Message-ID: <1b3e740803241205p3b423deci633c505fb220e236@mail.gmail.com> * Join this national growing hosting automation company driven by technology and dedicated to providing the most feature rich, easy to use, practical applications. As an experienced perl developer?you will further enhance current software offerings: ? Creating new code for hosting automation products ? 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If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by telephone and return the original message to us at the listed email address. Thank You. * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/private/houston/attachments/20080324/3fbefcc2/attachment.html From gwadej at anomaly.org Thu Mar 27 18:28:52 2008 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:28:52 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Fw: [pm_groups] Summer of Code Students -- Last call Message-ID: <20080327202852.612024b1@sovvan> Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:53:26 -0700 From: Eric Wilhelm To: PM Groups Subject: [pm_groups] Summer of Code Students -- Last call If you are a student or know a student who could be creating some awesome code with Perl or Parrot this summer, you need to act NOW. The application deadline is Monday, but if you haven't gone through a couple rounds of feedback by then you probably won't succeed. Applications sent at the last minute are unlikely to be accepted. If you know some students or professors, you should contact them about this today (not tomorrow.) http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects Thanks, Eric -- Request pm.org Technical Support via support at pm.org pm_groups mailing list pm_groups at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups -- The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. -- Larry Wall From gwadej at anomaly.org Sat Mar 29 12:13:23 2008 From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:13:23 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Fw: [pm_groups] Nordic Perl Workshop 2008 - Call for Papers & Participation Message-ID: <20080329141323.3a3776eb@sovvan> Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:23:00 +0100 From: Claes Jakobsson To: pm_groups at pm.org Subject: [pm_groups] Nordic Perl Workshop 2008 - Call for Papers & Participation Hi, please forward this to your local groups. Thanks, Claes Jakobsson, Stockholm.pm --- Nordic Perl Workshop 2008 - Call for Papers & Participation ----------------------------------------------------------- Stockholm Perl Mongers and its fellow Nordic Perl Mongers arranges the annual Nordic Perl Workshop in Stockholm, Sweden on the 24th and 25th of May (over a weekend). This is the second time the workshop is arranged in Stockholm and the 6th time in total. The venue for this years workshop is located right next to Vasaparken near Odenplan, in the heart of Stockholm. During summertime this is a green oasis where one can chill in the grass, watch people or take a break in some of the park's coffee-shops. Odenplan also offers a wide range of restaurants and pubs in it's vicinity. Nordic Perl Workshop is a workshop for the community by the community and we want you to submit interesting and inspiring presentations in order to make the workshop successful. Talk lengths are the usual 20 and 40 minutes but we might consider longer ones if motivated. Any subject is welcome as long as it's related to Perl somehow - from algorithms for social graphing and web-technologies to Perl5 core optimizations and language implementation targeting the Parrot VM. To submit a talk either do it online on the workshop website[1] or to claes at surfar.nu . If submitting via email please prefix the subject with [NPW]. Please submit talks no later than Friday 2nd of May. Accepted speakers will be notified Monday 5th of May. Apart from speakers the workshop also requires eager participants. Workshop fee is 500 SEK (~ 55 EUR) and there's a reduced fee at 250 SEK (~ 28 EUR) for students. This includes admission to the workshop and coffee. Registration is done via the website[1] which uses ACT so if you have attended a previous workshop registration is dead simple. [1] Website is not online yet but we're working on it really hard. The URL is as always http://www.perlworkshop.dk/ Important dates to remember: May 2nd - Deadline for talk submission May 5th - Speakers will be notified May 16th - Registration closes May 23th - Pre-work gathering for early arrivals May 24-25th - Nordic Perl Workshop 2008 Hope to see you in Stockholm. Claes Jakobsson on behalf of the Nordic Perl Workshop 2008 organization team. -- Request pm.org Technical Support via support at pm.org pm_groups mailing list pm_groups at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups -- Results are what you wanted, consequences are what you got. -- Michael VanDusen From rlharris at oplink.net Sun Mar 30 00:54:03 2008 From: rlharris at oplink.net (Russell L. Harris) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:54:03 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] blosxom (perl) and apache2 Message-ID: <20080330075403.GC4743@oplink.net> I plan to revert from WordPress to Blosxom (which is written in Perl) for my blog, but I have not figured out how to get Apache2 to display Blosxom articles. Five years ago, I had everything working, but that may have been prior to the introduction of Apache2. Today it is difficult to find anyone running Blosxom, and there appears to be no activity on the Blosxom mail list and web site. Ultimately I wish to run Blosxom on the web server of the ISP which hosts my web site, but to get things running (and to convert my existing WordPress postings to Blosxom), I have installed Blosxom and Apache2 on my desktop machine -- an i386 running Debian "testing". Would anyone here be willing to look over the configuration files? RLH From mikeflan at att.net Sun Mar 30 06:36:49 2008 From: mikeflan at att.net (Mike Flannigan) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:36:49 -0600 Subject: [pm-h] blosxom (perl) and apache2 In-Reply-To: <20080330075403.GC4743@oplink.net> References: <20080330075403.GC4743@oplink.net> Message-ID: <47EF9771.5020704@att.net> Russell L. Harris wrote: > I plan to revert from WordPress to Blosxom (which is written in Perl) > for my blog, but I have not figured out how to get Apache2 to display > Blosxom articles. > > Five years ago, I had everything working, but that may have been prior > to the introduction of Apache2. Today it is difficult to find anyone > running Blosxom, and there appears to be no activity on the Blosxom > mail list and web site. > > Ultimately I wish to run Blosxom on the web server of the ISP which > hosts my web site, but to get things running (and to convert my > existing WordPress postings to Blosxom), I have installed Blosxom and > Apache2 on my desktop machine -- an i386 running Debian "testing". > > Would anyone here be willing to look over the configuration files? > > RLH > I had never heard of it until now. This unofficial site appears to be fairly active: http://blosxom.ookee.com/blog/ Mike From rlharris at oplink.net Sun Mar 30 06:18:45 2008 From: rlharris at oplink.net (Russell L. Harris) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:18:45 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] blosxom (perl) and apache2 In-Reply-To: <47EF9771.5020704@att.net> References: <20080330075403.GC4743@oplink.net> <47EF9771.5020704@att.net> Message-ID: <20080330131845.GE4743@oplink.net> * Mike Flannigan [080330 07:35]: > > Russell L. Harris wrote: > > I plan to revert from WordPress to Blosxom (which is written in Perl) > > for my blog, but I have not figured out how to get Apache2 to display > > Blosxom articles. > > I had never heard of it until now. > This unofficial site appears to be fairly active: > http://blosxom.ookee.com/blog/ Thanks. I stand corrected. But it appears that much of the interest in bloxsom has been diverted to pyblosxom, which began as a clone of blosxom, but written in python. Neither appears to have a large user base. After hours of fruitless searching with Google and Yahoo, I'm about willing to go with whichever one I get working first. RLH From fluhmann at gmail.com Sun Mar 30 12:15:24 2008 From: fluhmann at gmail.com (Jeremy Fluhmann) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:15:24 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] blosxom (perl) and apache2 In-Reply-To: <20080330131845.GE4743@oplink.net> References: <20080330075403.GC4743@oplink.net> <47EF9771.5020704@att.net> <20080330131845.GE4743@oplink.net> Message-ID: <7f7c2d5e0803301215p6c8e6033r2fdc6019a1a2cf0e@mail.gmail.com> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Mike Flannigan [080330 07:35]: > > > > Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > I plan to revert from WordPress to Blosxom (which is written in Perl) > > > for my blog, but I have not figured out how to get Apache2 to display > > > Blosxom articles. > > > > I had never heard of it until now. > > This unofficial site appears to be fairly active: > > http://blosxom.ookee.com/blog/ > > Thanks. I stand corrected. But it appears that much of the interest > in bloxsom has been diverted to pyblosxom, which began as a clone of > blosxom, but written in python. Neither appears to have a large user > base. > > After hours of fruitless searching with Google and Yahoo, I'm about > willing to go with whichever one I get working first. I had started looking into using Blosxom a few months back for a personal blog, but ended up going with Movable Type (http://www.movabletype.com/, also written in Perl). Not sure if there's a difference between MT 4.1 for personal use and MTOS (Movable Type Open Source - http://movabletype.org/opensource/). I may still try to play around with Blosxom, though. Jeremy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/private/houston/attachments/20080330/c5ecf448/attachment.html From rlharris at oplink.net Sun Mar 30 15:44:28 2008 From: rlharris at oplink.net (Russell L. Harris) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:44:28 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] blosxom (perl) and apache2 In-Reply-To: <7f7c2d5e0803301215p6c8e6033r2fdc6019a1a2cf0e@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080330075403.GC4743@oplink.net> <47EF9771.5020704@att.net> <20080330131845.GE4743@oplink.net> <7f7c2d5e0803301215p6c8e6033r2fdc6019a1a2cf0e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20080330224428.GG4743@oplink.net> * Jeremy Fluhmann [080330 14:21]: > I had started looking into using Blosxom a few months back for a personal blog, > but ended up going with Movable Type (http://www.movabletype.com/, also written > in Perl). Not sure if there's a difference between MT 4.1 for personal use and > MTOS (Movable Type Open Source - http://movabletype.org/opensource/). I may > still try to play around with Blosxom, though. I finally found several blogs which currently run Blosxom, and one of the Blosxom users I contacted suggested trying: http://localhost/cgi-bin/blosxom/ That worked; the cgi script ran and displayed the blog text. Meanwhile, I found and read the official Apache tutorial, "Dynamic Content with CGI". So I think that I now should be able to configure Apache2 to make the blog display, using a simple URL such as: http://localhost/blog I would consider Movable Type Open Source, but what's to keep it from going the way of WordPress (which still is open-source)? The problem is that the blog has become something of an art form -- a mechanism for personal expression through visual presentation -- at the expense of the utility which only the blog can provide. Indeed, the blog is becoming more of a status symbol than a means by which knowledge and understanding are communicated. That, plus the phenomenon of "feature creep" has turned a tool for maintenance of a personal, publicly-viewable bulletin board into a tool for production of a personal web site. But this growing complexity has a price. The paramount and vital characteristic of the blog is economy with respect to the time and effort of the blogger. While WordPress continues to offer a minimal burden with respect to publication effort, the burden of maintenance appears to be growing rapidly, if not exponentially. I have little interest in a blogging package which entails more than about one update a year. Thus, two days ago, when I logged into the administrative page of my WordPress blog and saw a message declaring that my version of WordPress is out-of-date and that an upgrade is needed, and then read over the page of instructions for making the update and the accompanying warnings concerning features which might be broken by the update, I knew immediately that it was time to regress to a simpler, saner blogging engine. RLH