Custom plugin help request

[dimopoulos]

Greetings,

I have read quite a bit on hooks in the article section so I decided to give it a go.

I created a plugin which hooks to the global_start. It queries the blogs and picks the last 10 entries from it. It then stores it in a variable which I can use.

Everything works fine if I put the variable to be 'echo'ed in the footer lets say. However when I put the variable in the sidebar (I am using the Ultimate sidebars product) it just doesn't display.

Any ideas as to how I can make a variable that clearly has data work inside another plugin?

Pointers are more than appreciated.