Alex's Adventures on the Infobahn - meta

Cleaning up the tags

2010-01-17T19:17:00+00:00

When I first converted my old blog to Wordpress I used tags for all the old categories. This was probably the wrong choice as tags present more subtle meta-data about a post. After manually updating a whole bunch of posts I discovered Wordpress already has useful "Tags->Categories" and "Categories->Tags" tools to help with the clean-up. So now my tag-cloud is a little less dominated by the generic "general" and reflects the distribution of posts a little better. It remains to be seen if this is a good thing.

Meta Meme

2009-12-11T12:05:00+00:00

I thought I'd jump in with the current meta-meme which if I understand the rules correctly is the first line from the first post of each month:

Jan: Rockbox happily made it through the New Years Eve gathering without frustrating anyone with its occasional rough edges.
Feb: True to Hofstader’s law it took a few extra days to finish of my (unpaid) work at Essex University.
Mar: You may recall the adventures of playing with the bleeding edge of Xorg.
Apr: I’m slightly wary of posting anything on Internet Lie Day but I’m guessing it all depends on the timezone.
May: I went to a embedded conference today (re: sales pitch).
Jun: While browsing stackoverflow I (re)discovered Desktop Save Mode which I must of played with in an earlier emacs version and then disabled.
Jul: Thanks to all who came to the party on Saturday.
Aug: We spent the weekend attending the wedding of C&P in the royal county of Buckinghamshire.
Sep: I dropped my car off at the body-shop for it’s cosmetic surgery today.
Oct: I was little disappointed by David Cameron’s performance on Sunday AM.
Nov: I’ve finally gotten around to migrating the blog to Wordpress.
Dec: The weekend was a relatively quite one.

So that's 4 geek, 2 job, 5 life and 1 politics post. I'm a well rounded individual I am ;-)

Migrated to Wordpress

2009-11-02T11:34:00+00:00

I've finally gotten around to migrating the blog to Wordpress. While I'm still very happy with Personal Weblog it was getting a little long in the tooth and given Livejournal's ongoing problems with syndicated feeds I thought it would be easier to host everything (including comments) on my site. You can see the very ugly migration script on github.

The one remaining thing to do is code up some re-directs in the original news.php page so the syndicated feed still slurps up something, but there is no rush I guess seeing as LJ isn't currently paying attention.

EDIT TO ADD:Well LJ may not be paying attention but I've implemented the redirect for both normal pages and RSS feeds. Old permalinks should continue to the old page.