Shell commands to upgrade to WordPress 2.6.1

Just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.6.1 via ssh. Went just fine (knock on wood). Here’s the commands I used, for my own reference as much as anyone else’s:

wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
rm -rf wp-includes
rm -rf wp-admin
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
cp -rpf wordpress/* .
rm latest.tar.gz

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Adding a subject to a text message sent to an e-mail address

Here’s a tip for text messengers that I discovering when configuring Remember The Milk for my cell phone:
If you are sending a text message to an e-mail address and put words in parentheses at the start of your message, they will show up as the subject of the e-mail.
For example:
(this is the subject) this is [...]