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I’m going to find myself using Skype a whole lot more for work and I need to invest in a decent headset. What I would like is a USB set (wireless would be even better) that is comfortable to wear as a pair of headphones for a large part of the day. As this is a work expense, I’m willing to look at more expensive options. Any suggestions would be welcome.

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A plugin to display a bible ‘verse of the day’ on your Wordpress blog

OK, after over a week in pre-release status and with no kicking & screaming about it not working I’ve decided to go live with the new version. For those who missed the pre-release announcement, here are the major changes:

This is a completely new plugin, with a bunch of changes, the most obvious ones are that the program no-longer uses the troublesome cache files and the options are now set in an options page, not as parameters set in the code. This should make life a whole lot easier. Unfortunately this means that there is no support for Wordpress versions less than 1.5. The old version of the plugin could do this because the code was a whole lot simpler. Now that the plugin is simpler to use, the code is more complex, and makes use of a number of nifty Wordpress features that I was completely un-aware of 1^st time around.

There is now also a Verse of the Day Plugin Page which will contain all information about the plugin and will be updated as needed.

So, as always, please download the plugin and let me know how it goes. I’m still open to comments. Bug fixes will get implemented straight away, but new features will probably have to wait ’till next time.

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