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I've really been neglecting all of my blogs this year. Earlier this week I vowed I'd change this. So if I do have any readers left, be prepared to finally see more frequent posts and a change in the layout sometime (hopefully soon) in the future.

I really have more than enough ideas on what to post about. I just need to get around to writing them instead of just thinking about writing them...

While customizing WP to suit the needs of our public site at work, I noticed some interesting issues with how WP (at least version 2.0.x) handles customized paths. If I start the permalink URL with /current/%category%/… and set the category URL as /current, the category archives will open, but the permalinks don’t work.
This strikes me [...]

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