I think this makes the WPHC fully viable and mature. I still find it interesting that Automattic didn't come up with this on their own first, but it doesn't surprise me that Alex is behind it. He's a savvy guy, a smart entrepreneur, and willing to try new things.

"The number one reason people give us for not upgrading to the latest version of WordPress is fear that their plugins won’t be compatible. As part of our continuing efforts to make WordPress core, plugin, and theme upgrades as painless as possible, Michael Adams developed and launched a beta of a new “Compatibility” feature in the plugin directory, powered by your votes. When viewing a plugin in the directory, select a WordPress version and a plugin version from the drop-downs. If there has been feedback about this WordPress / plugin version combination, we’ll show you what percentage of responses marked that combination as compatible vs how many marked it as incompatible." A great move.

"James Frye has written a small app that syncs facebook events into iCal, so that you can integrate your facebook invitations with the rest of your calendars in one view."

Always interesting to see what other people are using. Still slacking on getting my CrashPlan system set up. Ah me. Maybe this weekend.