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Just wanted to come on here and let you know that an article you first saw here (What does full server path mean) is being reproduced (with my permission) in Kevin Airgid's book: Web Designers Success Guide. 😀

Ok, I lied. That wasn't the last "personal-related" post.

In many many respects, life is good – definitely better than before. As someone told us recently (and I completely agree) we're living in a secret paradise. Weather is great. Scenery is great. Lots of kid-friendly/family-friendly stuff here. Lots of outdoor activities. BUT (there's always a but) don't let anyone kid you – being a stay-at-home-mom in MANY ways is more work than GOING to work was. And then to make it all even more interesting (and busy, and overworked, and…), are the freelance gigs I'm trying to keep up with in the evenings and any spare time I have.

So, fortunately or unfortunately, I don't see me getting more time any time soon. I'm not taking down the site or anything – but it will probably be months before I'm able to really start posting on here again. In many ways this is frustrating – because there are a lot of cool things going on with WordPress right now – and I would really like to be a part of it. But right now, there are more important things going on with my life and I'll just have to try and catch up with blog-software-stuff at a later time.

Being that the last post I made was a couple of months ago – it's pretty obvious I'm on a hiatus. So, I guess you can consider this the official word on that.

I'm still buried in boxes – and probably will be for some time to come. The move is going a little more bumpy than expected. It'll get better, but not for awhile unfortunately…

In any case, I'm glad to see that some of my older plugins are getting a facelift in newer work:

Collapsable More Link plugin
[found via Blogging Pro]

While I *really* wish I could enter into the WordPress plugin contest – the fact of the matter is my schedule doesn't open up until next month – after the contest has closed for judging. But it sounds like it will be run again – so I should be able to enter it next time.

In any case – if I need ideas for plugins to "get back into the swing" – hopefully this "developers wanted" list will still be up and running in June.

So – now it's safe to discuss all this – as anyone who I know who might stumble on this blog already knows. This, I promise, will be the last "personal" related post, and once I pick up again, we'll go back to our regularly scheduled scripting. 😉

SO – here's what's going on in my (personal) life in a nutshell…
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Just some link storage – nothing ground breaking here… A list of stock photo sites:

GettyImages.com
Picturequest.com
Superstock.com
Masterfile.com
Punchstock.com
Stockbyte.com
Iconica.com / Photonica.com
Veer.com
AgePhotostock.com
LuckyPix.com
estockphoto.com
istockphoto.com
Foto Search

I haven't been posting links to new plugins as they've been coming out – Weblog Tools Collection and Blogging Pro are possibly the best places to look for that – but I still want to make note of plugins that I KNOW I'll want to use in the future…

Lazy Gallery Plugin
Point to a folder with images and read it…

[via Blogging Pro]

Just so you don't think I've dropped off the face of the earth…. I should be able to post some more (personal) related news here on May 2 – and have plans to be around here a lot more starting in June. Until then, life and things are up in the air, and I can't really talk about them here just yet. (Not until after May 2)

In any case, I'm here. The site is not going away (in fact, a redesign is in the works! more info on that coming too) Just taking a little down time to get my life in order. Stay tuned.

A huge huge thanks to Mark – who took it upon himself to update the WP Subscribe To Comments plugin. Many of the issues people were having should now be fixed.

(Please note that with this latest version – support for WP 1.2 ceases – but the previous version of subscribe to comments worked fine with that version, and is still available for download. So – if you haven't upgraded WP to 1.5 – you don't need to do this upgrade)

I haven't been posting any plugin notifications (not that weren't mine anyway) basically because Weblog Tools Collection and Blogging Pro do a much better job of that. But once in awhile I need to make note of a plugin that I KNOW I'm going to want to use.

PhotoPress
(quoted from that site) "Photopress is a plugin that adds a set of helper tools to WordPress to make working with images much easier. It adds a pop-up uploader and a pop-up image browser to the posting page and a groovy random image function for your template."

[found via Weblog Tools Collection]