The weeks are flying by.  Can you believe it’s October already?  Heck, I can hardly believe it’s 2007!  That means 2010 is right around the corner — I remember when I was a kid and thinking that 2010 was SO FAR AWAY.  Well, ok I guess it was, but still.  It’s truly amazing.

The Leg.  Sweep it.

Here’s my homage to Karate Kid.  Easily one of my favorite movies from that year (whatever year it was).

So for you I give you two things - a video for “You’re The Best” and an inspirational poster.

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Another Wordpress Upgrade, done

It seems like only yesterday (ok, it was a couple weeks ago) that I blogged about upgrading my version of Wordpress (the software that powers my blog), and there was a lively discussion about profanity, plugins, and Avi’s immediate suggestion that I incorporate tags vs categories.  It didn’t take long for me to heartily agree - Categories should be used in a much more general way of, well, for lack of better term - categorize - the posts, and I can see maybe a couple dozen categories at most.  Tags, on the other hand, should consist of keywords related to the post, and are more free form, context-driven pieces that help with search engines and the like.  to me, Categories are for browsing, tags are for searching.

I was very close to getting the Ultimate Tag Warrier as Avi suggested, but ended up procrastinating.  Now I’m glad I did - Wordpress 2.3 has inherent tag support!  So I dropped everything (sorry, coffee mug; I didn’t like you much anyway) and did the upgrade Friday afternoon where no-one does internet surfing.  I had my maintenance page back up for about 6 minutes while I did all the upgrading, and it went without a hitch.  I did have to upgrade my Get Recent Comments plugin, tho.

Now I’m at 2.3, as evidenced by this handy screenshot that’s documented and certified impossible to forge:

There are tons of new features, all of which seem very logical and worth the upgrade.  I haven’t really seen if SpotMilk welcomes the changes or shuns them, but for now just the tags are good enough.

Oooh, and now I get a tag cloud!  Built-in!

It will be extremely difficult to not re-tag EVERY SINGLE POST on my blog.  I only have 740 of them in 368 categories.  0 tags for now.  Well, I take that back.  When I submit THIS post I’ll have a few tags — :)  I wonder if there’s a ‘netiquette for this.  As Waynal as I am, I’m going to be re-tagging posts that I think need it.

My theme doesn’t support tags vs categories yet; in fact, the theme calls categories “tags”, so I’ll either have to look for an upgrade or just make the mods myself.  I’m betting I’ll have to make the change myself, but that’s ok.  I think I’ll go for the categories being “Posted in (category)” and Tags just saying “Tags: (tag, tag, tag)”.

Any suggestions?

Best of the LOLcats

I knows some of you don’t “get” the lolcats.  And by that I’m not saying you’re stupid or don’t understand it, I’m saying you don’t find it as funny.  That’s like me telling my wife she doesn’t “get” The Simpsons - I’m not saying she doesn’t get the jokes.

So let me know your opinion(s) of these, if any.

God, is it time for another WP update?

First of all, you don’t drink coffee. You giant lying (insert explitive here, since I can’t.)

Second, I ain’t watching your karate kid crap. That’s soooo gay.

Third, I don’t think it’s “The Simpson’s” that your wife doesn’t get. Amazon has some great books.

Fourth: I like the bunny. That one is cute. It’s the cats that are gay. Except that one on the Don’t mess with Britney thing on that other blog. That one, I liked.

Have a great day! I am going shopping.

And when are you going to fricken fix my categories so that they collapse? And while your at it, why don’t you upgrade my WP, since you are experienced in it? Oh, and send me my fricken’ birthday present already.

*sigh*

Correct, I do not drink coffee, but I have coffee mugs. Some I use for pens / pencils / scissors / screwdrivers. Some I use for drinking water or my fruit juice / orange juice / vodka / screwdrivers. In this instance, however, the coffee mug I dropped was full of hot coffee because I was delivering it to a homeless man. I got the urgent email message that I was 11 days behind in upgrading to WP 2.3 and, well, I dropped the hot coffee.

If “sweep the leg” and a FIGHTING competition is you definition of gay, then, well, you look FABULOUSSSSSSSS!

Yes, it’s The Simpsons, sans apostrophe. She gets the jokes (ie, they’re not above her head), but she doesn’t “get” The Simpsons, in that she doesn’t find it funny. I even went to great lengths to try to explain as much but evidently, some people don’t “get” how I write

I didn’t put the Britney LOLcats cuz someone already did. But yes, it was a good one.

And ok, I will upgrade your WP for you. I’ll try to do it before tomorrow. I have to send you your present? Won’t you be coming to town sometime in the next, oh, 12 months or so? It’s not like I got you a cheesecake that’ll melt or something.

It’s not the karate; it’s the movie. Gay, gay gay gay gay gay gay.

I don’t think YOU got my joke about what your wife gets and doesn’t get.

Don’t sent me my present, you insensitive jerk. I will be down sometime the week of the 22nd..

and thanks for the WP upgrade…

I still need to upgrade from the last time. I’m just so worried that nothing’s going to work after I do it.

Absurdist, I’m not an insensitive jerk. I’m a sensitive jerk. It’s kind of like a civil war.

Ahveee, there are special upgrade instructions for users of that Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, and it’ll convert those tags for you, too. After I do Abs’, I could do Avi’s. I’m going in alphabetical order. Lemme know if you’d like help. I highly recommend the WP backup plugin (link escapes me at the moment)

Oh cool! I just found a “category to tag” converter built-in to the new version of Wordpress. Seeing as how I have 368 categories, most of which really were used as “tags”, this will save me a LOT of time. Then I can come up with a short list of actual nested categories for a cool site-map and we’re home free, baby!

I still need to find out how to manage the tags (or maybe you just don’t), and also how to find uncategorized entries. I did a test conversion and it made the entry uncategorized, but when I edited that entry, it changed the category to “General”.

I love these. The bunny is the bestest.