Excluding a blog category from your feed

While I was working on a new system for my WordPress newsletter, a system that uses its own custom feed (skipping FeedBurner which caused errors last week), I had to figure out how to exclude a category from my blogs regular feed as well as my homepage and some other pages.
There's a couple of ways

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Postbox, an interview with Sherman Dickman

A short while ago I moved over to a new email program called Postbox, and I've been absolutely loving it for it's labelling, archive and search functions. One of the people involved with Postbox is Sherman Dickman, whom I knew from when he was still the Product Manager at Mozilla, so I decided to interview

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Switching from plain text to HTML emails

Recently, I switched my WordPress News mailing-list from plain text to HTML. There were a couple of reasons for that:

I use a lot of links, and these were breaking up even a simple text layout, and I figured HTML email would increase the readability of the whole thing.
With HTML emails, because you're seeing normal link

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Several plugin updates and a new plugin!

I've had a good few days of coding, and updated several plugins today, all for different reasons explained below, and also written a new one, email commenters. Of course I used this chance to update all links in these plugins and in these plugins pages on WordPress.org. Check out what I did!

Annoyances and weird stuff

So somebody copied virtually all the code from my robots meta plugin, put it in a "Platinum SEO" plugin, and conveniently forgot to attribute the code to me... The GPL isn't that hard to deal with, but somehow, people manage to fuck even that up. I've emailed them and posted a formal complaint to the