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Happy Halloween!, originally uploaded by jmock.

I spent some time this evening attempting to get Till Krüss’ Downloads Pepper working so I could track my WordPress plugin downloads from within Mint.

No matter what I tried, I couldn’t seem to get it to track any downloads. After fixing some permissions issues, I was able to download the files in question by going directly through the wrapper that the pepper uses, but it still wasn’t working from the projects page. After searching Google for a while and finding no help, I was becoming extremely frustrated. Then, I remembered something…

I had configured Mint to not track my own visits.

As a test, I turned that setting off and tried again… and it worked! Since I didn’t come across this information anywhere in my search as something to check, and since I completely forgot I told Mint not to track my visits (it’s a checkbox in the Mint preferences), I wanted to make sure I documented it for myself and others. So, if you’re having problems with downloads displaying in Mint when using this pepper, make sure you’re not ignoring your own visits like I was :-)

A week or two ago I decided that my sidebar was getting a little long, so I was trying to figure out a way to keep the same content, but compress things a bit. In the end, I decided to go with a tabbed interface for the list of local blogs I read and the category listing. You can see an example of what I came up with over in the sidebar near the bottom.

After doing some research, I decided to use YUI for the implementation. Why? Why not :-) Here’s what I came up with…

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Last Monday night, I took a trip over to a local Apple Store and picked up a new 2.4 GHz 13″ MacBook to replace my older MacBook Pro. Now that I’ve had it for a week, I thought I’d post my thoughts and how I feel it compares to the older MacBook Pro.

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Voting for hope, originally uploaded by jmock.

My vote has been cast. Has yours?