Unlike all the Cool Kids, I’ve never gotten down with using Tags for my blog entries. I don’t trust myself enough to tag things consistently, frankly. So I use categories to group things together for those times I want to review a subject (vs. searching for individual posts).
I’ve added a bunch of new subcategories today for several categories that had grown unwieldingly large. In most cases, these were categories I’d been pondering for a while, but which I finally got around to building. I’ve done them as subcategories of the parent categories I’m trying to break up.
Now, in theory, I should go back through those parent categories and reassign things appropriately. Alas, with over 12,000 entries, that’s a herculean job that I’m saving for when I have a week with nothing else to do. Perhaps when retire …
So for the most part these categories are starting off as stubs that will build from this point, with possible backfilling if I reference back to an earlier post. Let’s see how that works for now; in another 12,000 posts, nobody will remember the difference.
Sub-categories being added:
- Blogging – Technical (to track posts about MT and technical issues with my blog, vs. other general Blogging subjects)
- Family (broken out from Personal)
- Health – Science (to distinguish from “I am down with the grippe” Health posts)
- Media – Art (to make various reference to the Tate Modern, etc.)
- Media – Sports (for the occasional obligatory sports post)
- My Mobile / PDA (for stuff having to do with cell phones and PDAs and combos thereof)
- Religion – Episcopal Church (broken out from the general Religion category)
- Religion – My Parish (my local church activities)
- Religion – Me (my own musings on the subject)
And I’m doing this post as much to note these changes as “starter” posts for those new subcategories than as anything I figure anyone would be interested in actually reading. We now resume my regular blather, normally scheduled for this time.