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This Just In From Stat Boy…

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I’ve done a couple other posts on number of comments, but it’s been over a year since the last one. Lets see where things stand now. This is not a complete total; just the posts since the last summation (which happened on February 9th, 2008)…

Lauren 938
Peggy 663
Brad 623
Beth 591
Lloyd 581
Deanne 481
Karla 397
Annette 221
Curt 193
Deborah 182
Kristi 180
kiwe 132
Lauren’s dad 96
Mark 89
Kitt 81
Michele 77
Christina 74
Cousin Sam 74
Rae 74
Lauren’s mom 63
Jill 57
Brady G. 38
Lloyd’s Mom 30
Gretchen 26
Karla/Arron 25
Stephannie 21
Arron/Karla 19
Kathi D 18
ratty 18
Heidi 17
Beth Marshall 13
Dana 13
Amy 12
Lisa Espinosa 12
Mom 12
Meredith 11
Vera 10
Ribs 9
Sambo 9
Jessica 8
Todd Peperkorn 8
Keren 6
Keren Lowell 6
Marisa 6
Charles 5
Aaron 4
Heidi Thomas 4
Kim 4
Uyek 4
Arron 3
Aunt Lolly 3
Barbara Trujillo Brown 3
beth (sam’s 2nd wife) 3
Brent 3
Gravity Gardener 3
Rachel 3
Rev. Todd Peperkorn 3
Sarah 3
us cellular guy 3
Anita Pointer 2
Barbara & Sarah 2
beth (rachel’s wife) 2
ChiaLynn 2
Cricket 2
Jennifer 2
Karen 2
Kathryn Peperkorn 2
Katxena 2
Lauren (Not Brad) 2
Magickwyrds 2
Mary 2
Mary Gerlach 2
Mokihana 2
Patrick 2
RGBuesing 2
Rolando 2
Sharly 2
Smeagol 2
Stephanie 2
Suz 2
The Crafty Cactus Lover 2
The Exterminator Beth 2
zch24- from Manila, Phils 2

For a grand total of 6435 comments (if you add to these comments the comments by people who only made one comment). Here’s a bonus chart for those of you who don’t like numbers:

This took longer to make than it should have.

Tag… You’re It [redux]

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Well, my buddies at the CIA finally got back to me, and I’m happy to report their summary of the great tag-off of 2009. We tagged a total of 450 different posts with 607 tags.

The Most Tagged Post award goes to Lovin the Mac with a total of 5 tags (cdc, Gadget, ipod, macintosh and preschool). There were 6 other posts tied with 4 tags each.

The Most Used Tag award goes to Cooking, but that really shouldn’t count, because it was converted from a category.

The Most Interesting Tag award goes to ninja with honorable mentions to architecture, beard, bee, brats, eek, hottie, paranoid, rectal, romance and TMI.

Finally, the Most Prolific Tagger award goes to Kristi with 385 tags on a total of 338 different posts. Kristi, I’ll soon be carefully selecting the thing(s) that Lauren won’t notice are missing for a couple of weeks. If there’s anything you’re interested in, let me know.

Thanks to everyone who played, here’s the total list along with the most common tag(s) that they used. Feel free to continue tagging as you are so moved.

Kristi 385 food, family, green, bathroom
Lloyd 71 peggy
Deanne 39 prototype
Curt 37 experiment, homemade
Jill 24 cricket
Baltimore Lutheran 20 all different
Karla 10 fame
Lauren 5 ukulele
Christina 5 pocket, politics, vitamin, ukulele
Mystery Tagger 3 4 house, kate, slow, wallpaper
Ratty 2 food
Mystery Tagger 2 2 birthday, ninja
Mystery Tagger 1 1 house
Lauren’s mom 1 icon
Brad 1 christmas

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Tag… You’re It.

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Lauren is feeling a bit under the weather (which is strangely cold here now), so I get to write something during the week. That means you’ll be suffering through some more geeky stuff today.

The latest version of WordPress (the software that makes this website toe the line) added tagging. So we’ve been tagging new posts since, more or less, the start of March. You might have seen the little tags at the bottom of posts, or the Tag Cloud over there in the sidebar (Jeffrey Zeldman said that Tag Clouds are the new mullets).

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While adding them as we go has taken care of about 20 posts, there seem to be around 800 more that don’t have tags. There are programs that are suppose to read through posts and “auto-tag” them, but they say that they aren’t very good.

I thought maybe we could do a little tagging experiment. The little box in the bottom right of the post will let you enter any tag you want for that post. Just type it in and hit enter. The link below will take you to a random post. Why not hit a random post or 50 and see what you think about tagging?

Tag them in whichever way you think is best; don’t feel like you can only use the ones in the Tag Cloud, those are only the most popular. There are something like 140 different tags in use now. Oh, three requests:

  • all lowercase
  • singular
  • one word tags

As a sort of incentive, I will send the person who does the best job tagging something of Laurens that she will not notice is gone for a few weeks. May the best man win…

Get me a random post… now!

Oh, and I should point out that all of this is made possible by the folksonomy plugin written by Scott Sherrill-Mix.

I need some feedback

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Well, it’s been a week, and I think I have the bugs ironed out, so I want to know what you think of the new look (If you’re reading this from a feed, you can click here to see it). Take a look around, There are new page links at the top (I like the gallery, but Lauren doesn’t). The categories are in the menu below the logo (Most Popular…) And there are some new things items in the tabs to the right (I really like the Tags, but Lauren does not share the love).

In fact, Lauren was pretty indifferent to the idea of changing things. I believe her exact words were, “Quit bothering me. Get me a soda.” I took that as permission to go ahead. There were a few things that I didn’t like about the old look, And I tried to fix those with a new theme and assorted new plugins:

  • We were starting to accumulate a fair number of pages, but there was no good way to access them.
  • There was no way to highlight the few posts (roughly one in a hundred) that were popular.
  • I wanted to add new things (tags, delicious links…) to the sidebar, but still keep it short.
  • I wanted cool gravatars like Brad’s site.
  • Added a few little additions like ‘subscribe to comments’ and ‘social bookmarking’ that will never get used.
  • Find some way to get our names on the homepage without being obnoxious about it.

I looked at a lot of themes, and ended up getting one from woo themes. It was pretty easy to customize, and I didn’t really have to do much to it anyway. Most of the changes I made were to get threaded comments looking okay.

I like the way the tabs turned out, and I love the way the gravatars look like little Polaroid instant pictures (I just lucked into that by breaking something else).  I don’t really like the way the logo turned out at the top, so if you do logos, send me a better one.

I would really like to know what you think is worse than before (and anything you like too).

Phennig did most of these.

Out With The Old

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I’ve been getting bored with the old theme, and there were some things that it just wouldn’t do well, so for about the last week I’ve been looking for something that I like better. Some of you have caught me messing around in the evening. I thought I would be safe because Lauren said that no one reads the site after 6:00pm. I guess people just don’t write any comments after 6:00pm.

Say goodbye to the Thoughts v2.0 theme. We’ve had some good times together, but you were getting a little old and dated looking, and I wanted something hot new and fresh.

I'll miss you most of all thought bubble.

The new theme won’t have all of the sidebar features until I figure out what the h e double hockey sticks is going on with the sidebar anyway. Feel free to look around, but if something doesn’t work, it’s because some things don’t work yet (it really wasn’t working to try to get things working first behind the scenes).

But before you go all clicking around, let us each take a moment to recall our fond memories of old Thoughts v2.0. She was a fine theme, and I’m sure we’ll all miss her.