I've added a weighted categories plugin that formats the categories in the sidebar a bit better than the simple categories list Wordpress comes with by default.
I was a bit skeptical about using tags on this blog because I didn't like that long list of categories, but I'm satisfied with this implementation of tags. The circle is now complete.
I've just installed Jeff Minard's modification of Edmundo Hidalgo's Cat2Tag plugin for WordPress to move away from the antiquated categorical organization system to a more flexible tag-based system. I've already been pseudo-tagging my posts using categories in the sense that I've been putting posts in more than one category, but I've been sticking to existing categories since I couldn't previously create categories on-the-fly while writing posts.
As the description for this plugin says, "It’s time to use folksomonies in our blogs, people."
Now if only there was a way to integrate the Technorati tagging plugin with this plugin…
Technorati Tags: blogs, tags, folksonomies, wordpress, plugins
So July is over and my self-imposed blogging goal of 1 post/day wasn't met. I did manage to post 25 entries in 31 days, which almost doubled the 30 entries I had from the previous 6 months. I'd say it was overall successful exercise since I did manage to make relatively substantive posts, sometimes two a day. Suffice to say that if I had this much free time in November, NaNoWriMo would be a breeze. I noticed that I rarely posted over weekends and that I partially made up for that by posting twice almost every day since I announced my goal. It has to be the fact that I'm sitting in front of a computer for 8 hours a day on weekdays that accounts for this trend…
I woke up this morning to find 95 new emails in my inbox. Three of them were random (not spam) emails but the other 92 were blog-related emails. 90 of them were requests for moderation of comments in my 3 and a half month old Flickr post. The other two were comments that slipped through Wordpress' filters and were posted as comments.
The emails were dated (timed?) 7:41am through 8:09am, so all this took place within a half hour. Since it took me less than 5 minutes to clean up and only two comments actually showed up on the site, it just goes to show how futile these spam attacks really are.
Dreamhost is having a promotion where you can get their Crazy Domain Insane Package (the same one I have) for $9 a year. This is the same package I have, with the small exception that I paid $120 for it. All it takes is five easy steps:
For this price, I am very tempted to sign up for another account (which is probably against their ToS). Maybe Veronica would like one, though.
Also, remember to put me down as a referral, I get some cash if you do.
My goal for July is to have an average of 1 post/day. I don't mean to start postwhoring, but this seems like a convenient benchmark to use. I'd like to get my thoughts and experiences out there into the world, not only to share with everyone else, but also to serve as a public collection of personality that I can look back upon in a few years and see how much (or how little) I've changed.
So far I'm at 9 posts in 12 days (including this one), so it looks like I've got some catching up to do.
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The lyrics have been fixed. Now to get to work on that interpretation…
I'm working on a post about one of the Stand Up songs and went to check the lyrics here, and it the formatting is all messed up on those pages. I never realized this before, but it seems the Stand Up lyrics pages I set up a few months ago didn't respect the line breaks I put in, so I'm gonna have to manually add HTML line breaks to each page. Shouldn't take very long and it gives me something to do for 15 minutes tomorrow.
This post brought to you by insomnia and the great ideas I get while laying in bed.
I added the $9.99/mo 5mb wireless internet plan for my phone on Cingular today. I haven't been able to get a GPRS connection here at work, but I'm hoping it's just a config problem since all the Blackberries around here seem to be working just fine.
So what does this mean? It means I'll be even more connected to the Internet. Eventually I hope to set up a moblog (mobile blog, get it?) and post pictures from anywhere straight from my phone. I'm not sure if there's a WordPress plugin for it or not, or how well TextAmerica integrates into this site, so that's something I have to look into tonight or tomorrow.
Despite the fact that only 1.5 of last summer's 5 new songs made it onto Stand Up, I've still kept the lyrics database up. I had some bad luck trying to implement mod_rewrite in the past, but I think I finally got it implementing clean URLs. Instead of having /lyrics.php?song=&date=, it now uses /lyrics/song/date. I think it's pretty neat and there's also the added bonus that clean URLs are indexable by search engines. Not a bad learning experience for a Tuesday night.
