dasBlog Patch - Exclude Single Post Category from Home Page

dasBlog lets you specify multiple categories for each post you publish.  It also lets you specify that your blog home page only shows posts within a specific category.  The feature is surfaced in the dasBlog Configuration page section, Appearance Settings:

I would like to be able to specify that dasBlog show all posts EXCEPT those in the category I specify.  Why you ask?  Well most of my posts will be public.  Only a few (what you might call pages, rather than posts) should not hit the home page (they will still be public).  Given that other dasBlog features (like the tag cloud) use the category information, I don't want to start seeing things like Public (1,000,000) in my tag cloud!  I would rather see Pages (3).

Adding Support for the "-" Operator in a Category Filter

This patch means that if put the "-" character in front of your category filter string, it will put all posts EXCEPT those in the specified category.   Important Note:  This only works for a single category.  The patch assumes all after the "-" is the Category name (as this is how the include filter works).

So, with the setting above, all all posts EXCEPT those in category "page" will make it on to the home page.