Note to self: when you want to get out of the office, don’t start a restore from your laptop, because then you need to wait for it to finish before you can go.

So, I’m killing time looking at how I put data into Wordpress. When I imported my stuff from the old blog, I dumped everything in the General category – which doesn’t help to find or categorize anything. I see search requests in the logs all the time that brings up a huge page with hundreds of posts, and I think that’s wasteful. So I’ve been thinking about how to best break up the site (both for blog entries and static information – WP calls the first posts and the second pages,) and I decided on some new categories (they should look familar to board game players.) The categories will also be tied to static content areas of the site – Arts & Entertainment will list the live concerts I’ve been to; Education & Development will have the school links, Sports & Leisure will talk about the IFUND, tailgate group, etc.

I fixed the categories from posts from March and from a few low-post categories, but it was pretty cumbersome. I’ll probably write a tool to help re-categorize WP posts. I also don’t like the way the category list is sorted. I’ll have to look if that’s something I can configure in WP 1.5 when I make that plunge.

While looking through the website, I found that Yahoo is good and actually calls /robots.txt before polling an RSS feed. Somehow, the RSS/blog fad/phenomenon didn’t follow some of the hardfast, Internet friendly rules – like, if a program or script is going to scrape/crawl a website, they should requests /robots.txt first and follow its instructions. I applaud Yahoo for their adherance to things that are supposed to make the Internet a better place, and I’ll ask Bloglines about it (since I’m using them exclusively now for my aggregation.)