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.