Asymptomatic

These guys launched a balloon into space - with pictures!

A while back, I installed Bunny’s Technorati Tags plugin for adding tags to my posts that would be scanned by Technorati. There were some little things about it that bothered me, so I made a couple of small changes.

First, I made the post input box narrower so it would fit inside its frame. Second, I added the ability to enter phrases as tags if you surrounded them in double-quotes.

Like I said, it’s been a while, and now my needs have changed slightly.

I’m still interested in publishing those tags to Technorati, but I’m not relaly keen on dumping the linked tags into my feeds at the end of each post. So I fixed that, too. Now, the tags are added to the categories that go out with the feeds, instead of appearing as links. Technorati is supposed to pick these up, in addition to the specially marked anchor tags. I like this implementation because it makes the feeds a little cleaner.

While looking for updates to Bunny’s plugin in the repository, I noticed that Felix Wong has a great tagging plugin. It’s neat because it uses the fancy WordPress rewrite rules class to enable pretty URIs for tag searches. My issue with his plugin is that it creates a whole new table for the tag storage and it requires that you modify (hack) the admin UI to add/edit tags on posts. Not nice.

So… I never was one to leave “pretty good” alone…

The Secret of Zir’An looks kind of neat, even if it is just another game that I’ll never get to play.

Our saturday game is escaping the serpent kingdoms, since Ken has decided that the demands of work and pregnant wife are too much to allocate an adequate amount of time to game preparation.

I was torn on the decision of what to do next, since I’m not particularly enthusiastic about Dave’s “Monster Manual as Adventure Module” style of gameplay, yet I would like to play a character now and then. So I kept my mouth shut and committed to the role I said I would play had I to choose to play a new character: A sorcerer.

Area people seriously turning Wikipedia into some kind of TV Show reference? I don’t know how I feel about my encyclopedia containing reruns.