With the release of Wordpress version 2.3, tagging has been finally integrated into the core functionality of the platform.
Not a bad idea, if your blog generally has fewer words and more photos. I am well aware of its usefulness in flickr, fergodssakes, but tagging posts with the very same words that are used in the body text of said posts?
Maybe I’m not “web 2.0″ enough. Maybe, with my four years of blogging, I’m turning into a luddite. What exactly is the benefit of a tag on a text-based post? The fact that posts could be assigned to multiple categories was a pretty awesome thing, because topics do overlap. But tags?
BUT TAGS?
TAGS?
No doubt, I’ll have to get into it and understand it if I want to continue relating to the needs of the people for whom I maintain Wordpress-based sites, but on my site? When I do upgrade to version 2.3, you can expect tags on photo-based posts.
Mkay?
2007-09-28, 7:41
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I won’t be redesigning the site; I like the way my site looks right now, with just a few minor changes I have procrastinated on. I am, however, going to be upgrading to version 2.3 of Wordpress. However, I will be re-engineering the theme I use. I have used this same theme since before they had theme directories. I have functions here that are older than sense, and I need to clean some shite up.
So if this place looks a lot like the “classic” theme that we used to have, in the ever-lovely pea-green color—which won’t be around for long, trust me—just know that the minimalist theme I have will return.
Just give it a few days.
2007-09-27, 17:47
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The concept of a career evades me these days. It’s weird.
One of the biggest challenges I face when I get into a new job is that I learn my tasks so quickly that I get bored with what I do. Right now I am in a job where I know I won’t be staying in to make a career out of it. A younger version of me, after having read that past statement, would have told me to quit my job and go do something else. Though I know there isn’t much of a career with this place, there are also practical matters to be considered.
However, when the time does come that I join an occupation that would be my life’s work, how would I know that that’s it? Not so many people live their lives towards some magnum opus, artists and writers, maybe. And I am more than aware of the tendency for all work to be repetitive, but the little nibbling fear in the back of my head is, “when I actually do get into my ‘career,’ would I be able to handle it?”
Am I doomed to go through my life doing what interests me for a period of time and moving on to something different? It would be a charmed life, I know, but is that how I want to live my life? I don’t quite know.
I’m not saying anything you haven’t heard before
I’m just trying to understand the way we are…
2007-09-24, 16:19
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Living fine
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I am, however, very proud to praise Motion City Soundtrack for their new album, Even If It Kills Me, which I got a hold of today.
I listened to the whole album this morning and while there isn’t as much “catch” as Commit This To Memory, it holds its own as an album. The same lyrical artistry that had me hooked since their first album is ever-present in songs such as Calling All Cops and I Fell In Love Without You.
Classified as “pop punk” by most, it avoids the pitfalls of some bands that have been categorized as such, including being overly angstsy, or frivolous. No, MCS lays on the pop quite unapologetically and pulls in the punk as an ever-present glow.
(Gosh, does that paragraph make this sound like a “music review” now?)
All together, a great album to get, and listen to from end to end.
2007-09-19, 19:25
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I’ve spent the past week reading Ender’s Game.
Looking back, I’ve thought to myself, “whoa, I’ve only read this book now?” But at the same time, taking the rest of my life and experiences in context, I understand that now was the right time to have read the book.
And having done, that, I read, no, I devoured the second book in the series, Speaker for the Dead, in under eleven hours today.Were it not for my weary eyes and my usual bedtime I would be starting Xenocide tonight.
And so here I am, enthralled with the books of Orson Scott Card. Books that feel like familiar friends, that won’t let you leave just so easily when the day ends.
2007-09-09, 21:21
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