The year of 2006 was a year of masting. The Summer of 2007, a lot of immature acorns dropped, and 2007 was not a year of masting. This Spring, there was an abundance of catkins. 
Piles of them could be seen where the wind had blown them against road edges. Whether or not 2009 proves to be another masting year will depend on other factors it's true, but if it isn't, it won't be from a lack of male flowers during the time of pollination.
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- Clean Options Plugin
Have you tried different themes for your blog and no longer use them? Installed plugins that have since been removed? Although having unused rows in your wp_options table may have only a minimal effect on your blogs efficiency, you may still want to remove them - Clean Options Plugin Release Candidate
The first version of the Clean Options plugin became available in April of 2007 - Error Reporting Plugin
This post is for comments, suggestions etc - WordPress Functions 2.6
WordPress has changed quite a bit since version 2 - Clean Options and Speed
In the blog article - Understanding Clean Options
What options does the Clean Options plugin catch? To understand what the Clean Options plugin does, an explanation of how it gathers WordPress options may be helpful - Clean Options RSS options
The Clean Options plugin lists options named "rss_(hash value)" and "rss_(hash value)_ts"
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