diff --git a/History.txt b/History.txt
index 55e3d2a..5ffdef2 100644
--- a/History.txt
+++ b/History.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 == 0.1.8 2008-11-30
-* 1 major enhancement
+* 2 major enhancements
   * Moved base_uri normalization into request class and out of httparty module, fixing 
     the problem where base_uri was not always being normalized.
+  * Stupid simple support for HTTParty.get/post/put/delete. (jqr)
 
 == 0.1.7 2008-11-30
 * 1 major enhancement
diff --git a/examples/basic.rb b/examples/basic.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..672f772
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/basic.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+dir = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib'))
+require File.join(dir, 'httparty')
+require 'pp'
+
+# You can also use post, put, delete in the same fashion
+pp HTTParty.get('http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.json')
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/examples/delicious.rb b/examples/delicious.rb
index 245631a..3f47b4f 100644
--- a/examples/delicious.rb
+++ b/examples/delicious.rb
@@ -33,5 +33,4 @@ end
 
 delicious = Delicious.new(config['username'], config['password'])
 pp delicious.posts(:query => {:tag => 'ruby'})
-pp delicious.recent