Paul M. Jones

My sister Alaina is in town; she arrived yesterday afternoon and immdiately fell in love with Wendy, my new dog. Alaina and I went out to eat and caught up on each other's lives. She's moving from Indianapolis IN to Columus OH in a month or so.

Here's the funny thing: I'm not a very religious man any more, you could call me more an agnostic or a Joseph-Campbellian. I like to think, as Franklin did, that there is a Providence that leads us toward good ends. Providence appears to have led me to adopt Wendy so that Alaina could take her home. I could be very happy with that end. :-)

Last week, my neighbor Phyllis from down the street was talking about a dog she found at the corner of Riverdale and Quince. Phyllis has four cats, and they were terrified of the new dog, so she couldn't keep it. At the same time, she didn't want to just "give the dog away" -- instead, she wanted to adopt it out to a good home. I told her to bring the dog by to my house Monday evening; while I wasn't going to take another dog in, I have another friend (Libby) who is a dog fanatic and who would know of any good homes in the area.

On Monday, the new dog arrived in my backyard for play-time and looking-over. A good natured creature, mostly lab but with a little chow, perphaps some dachshund (long nose), about 25 pounds with a short golden brown coat. 6-9 months old, some minor tooth problems, sweet as could be.

So I took her in. :-) I've started calling her Wendy; it's not a Peter Pan reference, although I could work one up easily enough. "Wendy" just sounds right for her. She and Zoe (my first dog) are quickly becoming used to each other.

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The change notes are:

* Fixed break in area_pages.php where a call to the map did not specify which area to use

* Fixed break in yawiki.class.php method _buildMap() to check isset() on the title for a page

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The change log is:

* changed error_reporting() calls to ini_set() calls, for some reason the new error reporting level is not always honored on some systems

* fixed a bug in parseConfLines() from 1.0.1 that would prevent multiple groups with the same name (e.g., [Log])

* fixed a bug in start() when setting up the Var_Dump object; now properly sets the display_mode option when [Var_Dump] group has no elements

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