Yesterday, bbPress 1.0 was announced to be officially released and available for downloading.
For those of you not familiar with the software, it is PHP-based forum software that owes its existence to WordPress. In fact, it is often deployed alongside WordPress instances in order to provide forum capabilities to the weblog.
Or is it vice versa?
bbPress has been in its pre-1.0 release state for quite some time now, so this appears to be a good time to finally have it reach its “official” 1.0 status.
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Sure there are other countries that celebrate their independence days on other days in the year, but today is the Independence Day for the United States of America.
This year, as many of you have already experienced, the observed federal holiday began yesterday, July 3rd, due to the fact that the 4th of July occurs on a weekend.
Nevertheless, today is the formal day of observance.
Have the Times Changed?
If you recall last year’s meandering about this day, the vacation involved a lot of people managing their free time as “staycations”. The U.S. economy has not improved significantly enough for most people to “get out of Dodge”, as it were, so staycations remain high on the list of places to go… However, the food spread may be more extravagant where you are.
And for the folks who have managed to get out of town, the discounting that has been going on in the travel industry over the past few months is starting to bear fruit for those savvy entrepreneurs who have brought their lodging and entertainment charges to consumers down to reasonable, affordable levels– in stark contrast to their exorbitant rates from a mere two years ago. Likewise, while the air fare wars are not as dramatic as seen in previous years, there was some appreciable discounting between certain airline brands, while the discount airlines continue to do well in pricing and availability.
Relaxation
So, take it easy, folks! Enjoy this extended weekend. 
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This issue of whether themes and other code modifications to the WordPress software should comply with the GNU General Public License now has a more firm statement set to the dispute:
A reply to Matt’s request to the SFLC has come back, and it plainly states that, yes, the code aspects of themes fall within GPL, whereas images and other multimedia products may or may not, depending on their origin(s) and their authors.
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If you recall my previous discussion about Microsoft’s [MSFT] positive about-face decision to honor E 74 Red-Ring-of-Death (RROD) hardware failures as covered under their extended three-year warranty, I mentioned that the company would be refunding people who had paid for the repairs prior to the announcement.
Yesterday, as I was browsing my credit card statements, I noticed that– YES!– there was a refund from Microsoft for my Xbox 360 Pro’s repair.
If you are/were in the same proverbial boat as myself (and my poor Xbox 360 console), you may also be subject to a refund. If you haven’t received your refund yet, I recommend that you contact the Xbox Technical Support folks on their site concerning the matter.
N.B.
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