In my copious spare time, usually whilst sitting in the waiting area at Charlotte’s karate studio, I have been making slow but steady progress toward adding tags to all the posts on this site. As of right now, I have completed tagging all the way back to April 1, 2008. The current archive of this site goes back to July, 2007, so I am only about 60% finished, but I did want to point out that you should see quite a few more “Related Posts” start to show up at the bottom of each current post. As I have been working along, it has been very interesting to revisit some of the old posts, remember what was going on in the news or in my life at that moment in time, and see what recurring themes and subjects have been covered the most. The most frequently used tag far and away has been “funny pictures”. I really need to get my act in gear and spin that off into its own site.
Once I finally catch up with the tagging, I’d like to se if I can import some of the older posts from before I switched from Movable Type to WordPress. At the very least, it would be great to have the posts from the first half of 2007 and from 2006. I do have archives of every single post dating back to when I first began using Movable Type, which was around October, 2000 if I recall correctly, but it’s not terribly likely that I’ll ever get everything back online, nor is it necessarily desirable.
UPDATE: I have completed tagging ALL of 2008.
I also decided to begin the importing of the 2006-07 posts. It’s a much more convoluted thing, since it involves stripping out all of the HTML from each and every post, and then doing a bunch of manual editing once the original text has been cut-and-pasted into WordPress. It took me most of an afternoon to do about half of the posts for July ’07, whereas I could tag a month’s worth of posts in less than an hour. Progress sometimes happens more slowly than we would wish…
Update to the Update: I have completed all the tagging. On to the importing!