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Continuing from my previous post about the keywords plugin, I went and added keywords to about 50 of my posts. Then I decided to have some fun with combining keywords together. You can now search for entries that have 2 or more keywords assigned to them, or at least one of two or more keywords assigned to them, etc. For example, you can search for all entries that have the keyword tool assigned to them, entries that have the keywords colour and tool assigned to them, entries that have the keywords colour or tool assigned to them, and so on.

I looked at the pages at del.icio.us Technorati, Furl, and flickr, all of which support the use of keywords/tags. Del.icio.us seems to be the only one of these that supports combining keywords/tags. But then, they handle a lot more tags and links than I do.

I’ve been playing around with Andy Crouch’s Keywords Plugin. It works just like the tags in del.icio.us, flickr, and technorati. It’s very very neat! There’s more discussion on the plugin at the EE Wiki page  and the talk page. So far I’ve only added keywords to my Blatherskite log, and I may add it to this weblog as well.

You can see the weighted list of keywords I’ve assigned here.

Note: the term used in del.icio.us/flickr/technorati is tag, but after some discussion us EE users use the term keyword, so there won’t be any confusion with EE tags.

Assigning keywords to a post is supposed to be less restrictive than assigning a category, because you can create keywords on the fly. With categories, you have to name them in advance. But honestly I’m still struggling with using keywords over categories. For example, take this post, which has a link to a php tutorial. I gave the post two keywords - “php” and “tutorial”. But say later on I made a post that linked to Sims 2 Inside, a page that teaches you how to build houses in The Sims 2. I would give this post the keywords “sims 2” and “tutorial”. If I were to later decide to search for all posts that has the keyword “tutorial”, I would find both the php tutorial and the sims 2 tutorial, which are both tutorials but on completely different topics. If I kept on assigning the keyword “tutorial” to many posts with different topics, I wouldn’t find the tutorial keyword very useful, the links would be too varied. It’d only be useful if I searched for all posts that has the keyword “tutorial” AND some other keyword(s). If I were to have assigned categories to these posts instead, I’d assign the php tutorial to the category php, subcategory tutorial. With the sims 2 tutorial, I’d assign it to the category sims 2, subcategory tutorial. That’d be much easier to search.

Hopefully anyone who has made it this far understood what I was getting at in the last paragraph , I’m sure other people have written about this before. Anyway that’s why I’m hesistant about using keywords instead of categories, I’m just more used to using categories (and subcategories, and multiple categories). I could use both but it feels like I’d be duplicating information.

Coroner:: That scene in the Bourne Identity where Matt Damon and Franka Potente go to the morgue to look at a body *
Mystify:: Elements
Corroborate:: Evidence
Misinterpret:: Stupid typos
Humorless:: Not funny
Calculus:: Integrals .... ugh ...
Eye for an eye:: A tooth for a tooth
CPR:: Rescue
Stitched:: Wound
Facility:: Recreational

* I watched this movie recently

(from Unconscious Mutterings)

I was bored earlier, so I created a little painting over at art.com’s artPad. It’s done in Flash and you get to see all the brush strokes I used.

It’s night over here, I’m going to shut down my comp now and do some reading, so, Good Night, everybody. :zzz:

Sneaker Pimps - Six Underground

I got a call today saying that my laptop is repaired - YAY!

Also, I finally figured out how to access that My Yahoo! beta, the one that I’d been wanting to for months. First I changed my account info so that my address was somewhere in the U.S., and then changed the preferred content language to U.S. English.

There’s this product called Bubbles which is supposed to push your butt upwards to make it more shapely. Which in my opinion is just hilarious. :p

Also, there’s a press release outlining their list of Top Ten Tush-Challenged Celebrities.

Material world:: Madonna
Satin sheets:: Comfy
Blizzard: Snow snow and more snow
Real estate:: Houses
Dress up:: Dolls
Wesley:: Wyndam-Price
Robber:: Cops and ...
Saliva:: Drool
Slave:: Drive
Shift:: Gears

(from Unconscious Mutterings)

Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind

I should have mentioned this earlier - go visit the Hunger Site. Every click you make at The Hunger Site will help in the hunger relief efforts of the Mercy Corps (and their Tsunami Relief) and America’s Second Harvest. These clicks are sponsored by ads of course.

Besides that, there is The Breast Cancer Site, The Child Health Site, The Literacy Site, The Rainforest Site, and The Animal Rescue Site for you to visit and click.

After that, you can head over to Care 2 and click some more.

eXeem 0.20 public beta has been released. eXeem is a peer-to-peer client that uses BitTorrent. The program is free, but it is supported by ad revenue (adware), and there have been reports that means spyware is also installed with it.

I really want to try using this program, but I want to install it on my own laptop and not my dad’s computer (which I’m using now). And I won’t get my laptop back for at least another week.

Does anyone know what happens when your IP is banned from a site? Because I think that’s what’s happening with me.

For one, I’ve never been able to access the Mod the Sims 2 site. I always get an alert box saying that the site could not be found. Yet I’ve read from blogs that people post there all the time.

Yesterday, I tried going to this Squirrel Name Generator and I got the same alert message.

And just now I was clicking on a link from the pMachine front page to one of the newly updated sites. I couldn’t access that site either. But that site must have been up fairly recently, because it sent a ping to the pMachine site.

Using Anonymizer, which allows for free anonymous surfing, I got to both Mod the Sims 2 and the Squirrel Name Generator site.

I read that if you use .htaccess to ban an IP address, it should return with a 403 Forbidden error. I wanted to try it for myself, but then I realized I might make a mess if I tried to ban myself from my own website.