I’m now using the WordPress categories as tags, and I made a plugin to do a Flickr-like weighted tag link section instead of my old categories links. Now I just have to go back and update all the old posts. I’ve gotten through the most recent 100 so far - only 450 more to go!
See the top of this page and the sidebar for examples (same plugin); I haven’t decided how I want to style them or where to put them yet.
I like the idea of tags much more than hierarchal “categories”, but in WordPress, the out of the box categories already work more like “tags” than “categories” anyway, so I figured it is better to build on top of that. Plus, there’s already an admin interface for maintaining them, etc. - and after looking at other solutions for this, I decided there’s really no “tag” functionality that the WP categories can’t accommodate, with a little plugin code on top of them.
There has been a disturbing trend lately in which internet service providers have lobbied and in some cases succeeded in getting laws passed which ban free (or very cheap) “wifi” internet access in whole cities (such as Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and others). In some cases, it would also be illegal for businesses (like coffee shops) to offer free access as well.
It is disgusting that such laws would ever even be considered, much less passed. The governments are bending over backwards for these companies while at the same time cracking down on small businesses who are only trying to give things away for free, which isn’t harming anyone.
After the successful removal of the stent today, Christian is officially “tube-free” for the first time since this whole ordeal began. So far so good, just slowly settling into the relief of this latest victory.
I’m now using WP 1.5.1.3, which I think will fix that annoying trackback issue. Let me know if you experience any errors. I need to make some slight CSS changes, but otherwise it should be pretty painless.
OK, so now I need to block loan and credit card related spam too.
Still, not too shaby - only 8 out of 271 (and counting) for today made it past the filters.
I just realized that I rarely ever use 90% of the bookmarks I have. There are some sites that I go directly to, but the vast majority of the time I think it is easier just to re-search for something, rather than taking to time to save and categorize the bookmark first then find it again. If you know what you are doing with a search engine, it’s usually faster just to find it again (unless it was extremely hard to find the first time).
or No child left unrecruited?
A provision of the No Child Left Behind Act requiring schools to provide military recruiters access to students’ names, phone numbers and addresses has critics fuming.
When the new education laws took effect in September, school districts nationwide were required to provide student contact information to military recruiters upon request—or lose any federal funding the school receives.
