Arborwiki discussion
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{ Monthly archives }
September 2007
His name is Herbal. Herbal Kint (week 17)
Community Farm of Ann Arbor distribution, per an anonymous embedded microcorrespondent:
nice sweet potatoes and broccoli and an eggplant and more of those weird Japanese greens. Some kale, too. And a nice head of lettuce. And a pumpkin for you!
Note from the farm chalkboard: the butterflies like to lay eggs in broccoli in this hot weather we’ve had. Soaking the broccoli in cold salty water will dispatch any errant caterpillars. I tried it last night and it worked!
2007-09-27
Placeshout progress
At this writing, there are 11 Placeshout microneogeographers in Ann Arbor who’ve written 5 or more shoutouts. The top 5 cities on the site are (1) Ann Arbor, (2) San Francisco, (3) Detroit, (4) Ypsilanti, and (5) Atlanta. 35 cities in Michigan have at least one place mentioned.
There’s a Placeshout Facebook group.
New feature: RSS feeds per location, e.g. Ann Arbor geoRSS.
2007-09-27
Wordpress 2.3 — tag time
Like a burning comet ☄ Wordpress 2.3 has arrived; the big outward-facing feature is baked-in tagging support.
Two plugins of note at this early stage:
(1) Tag Managing Thing — Wordpress allows you to transform categories into tags, which isn’t quite right. Anything else, and you are either writing SQL or using the Tag Managing Thing. You will find it helpful for renaming, splitting, and deep-sixing tags.
(2) New Tag Cloud — plugin which exposes a Wordpress widget that is a micro wrapper around wp_tag_cloud (except that number behaves differently, go figure). The built-in widget for displaying a tag list/miasma doesn’t allow for any customization, and where’s the glory in that?
There are the usual errors and omissions in how tags are handled in the front-end template and WP administration. But the big plus is that, finally, the table structure is a little more civilized as re: post categories and link categories and (now) per-post tags baselined into Wordpress.
To say more would be to devolve into standard issue tag-and-bucket praises of del.icio.us, for which there’s neither space nor time enough, tonight!
2007-09-25
Break through in the red room [1]
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