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We had Aaron’s birthday party on Sunday, which amazingly enough was his actual birthday.  Aaron is now officially 3 years old (I’ve been calling him 3 for the past few months).

The party was originally set to be held at a local park but due to hurricane-like wind and rain, we decided, about 30 minutes before the party was supposed to start.  There was a mad dash for phone numbers of people we’ve never met before but we got it all sorted out.  Meri did a wonderful job (as usual) of setting everything up.

The party was great though.  We had 5 kids from Aaron’s class show up and 4 other kids from the neighborhood.  Aaron got a ton of presents and just like any kid (of any age) he ripped everything open and really didn’t notice that there was actual stuff under all that wrapping paper!  All he knew was there there were objects in the house that were wrapped and they were his.

It was great to meet some of the parents of the kids that Aaron talks so much about.  We all had a great time.

First and foremost, I want to thank David Chartier for the write-up he completed for the DownloadSquad regarding my WordPress plugin, the Vox Crossposter. I didn’t think the plugin was that big of a deal until users started to email me, asking me for help installing the plugin. I received a lot of positive feedback as well some suggestions for enhancements.

I have implemented a few of the suggestions and will continue to do so if I feel that the request actually enhances the plugin or if I get many requests for the same feature.

I was first contacted by David back in Jan 2007. I was very excited (and very surprised) to know that the plugin I wrote got someone’s attention who would be able to spread the word more than I have been able to. After a while, I forgot about the proposed write-up because after all, everybody gets busy! So fast forward to tonight when I just happened to check my email and what do I see? A wonderful message from Google Alerts (yes, I receive alerts regarding my own blog and yes, I do subscribe to it via Google Reader) :

As far as future development of the plugin, I am waiting on Six Apart to create an API for Vox like they have for LiveJournal or MoveableType.

Anyway, read about the development of and the pride I have in my plugin in my WordPress Plugin category. Thanks again David for the great write-up and the recognition.