Categorisation
Earlier in the month, when I was putting this new look together, for the first time I set up Movable Type so that I was categorising my postings. The categories aren't displayed, because I haven't decided how I want to use them, and I can't imagine ever wanting to do a 'list by category' index page, but I thought I'd put them in place so that I had them to experiment with. I went back and categorised some previous postings too, but the thought of going back through the entire journal to do so is a bit frightening.
Anyway, in an idle moment, I thought I might at least post what the categories are, and the way my postings split out among them. So without further ado:
Blogs and Blogging: 21 Entries
Comics: 2 Entries
Just Plain Weird: 3 Entries
Life: 42 Entries
Links: 14 Entries
News: 11 Entries
Politics: 19 Entries
TV and Film: 13 Entries.
I'll try to do a monthly revisit of this obviously-fascinating subject.
March 28th, 2003 - 14:09
Why the title change?
Doesn’t seem to be any mention of it in the recent entries though I am sure you can prove me wrong.
Some sort of HAL/2001 reference?
March 28th, 2003 - 14:23
Tragically, it’s an in-joke. Someone we used to work with was well-known for thinking he knows everything, and came up with this very question at a point after he’d been talking ‘knowledgably’ about Bluetooth with a client.
I thought I might try having occasional non-standard headers on the journal homepage. Like The X-Files sometimes took a step away from ‘The Truth Is Out There’.
March 28th, 2003 - 15:04
shame it doesn’t change for the rest of the site as well …
I was originally going to do this with my “everyone needs a space to drink …” … but a complete imagination failure took hold!
March 29th, 2003 - 11:23
Categories – I think categories are cool, but then, I have a slight manifestation of OCD that lends itself to categorising entries. It eats up discspace though, so I’m thinking at some stage I’ll remove remove old entries from categories. But not just yet.
It’s an absolute dream on my photo blog, because, say, someone does a google search on a place of where I have photos, they can focus their viewing, if they so wish, on that place – eg soemone did a search on a holiday resort I visited, and then had 100 page views, which made me feel good, because it suggested that I had helped them in some way.
March 29th, 2003 - 13:52
Actually, I can certainly see the advantage in that sort of use.
March 29th, 2003 - 16:51
Specifically to address Mike’s point (not the one about his lack of imagination), when I decide to try a new line, it will indeed appear through the whole site, courtesy of the wonder that is the server-side include….