{"id":167,"date":"2009-04-17T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2017-04-08T20:51:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T03:51:53","slug":"blog-labels-at-the-library-the-not-so-dewey-decimal-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/17\/blog-labels-at-the-library-the-not-so-dewey-decimal-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Labels at the Library: The Not-So-Dewey Decimal System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\">Blogger<\/a> lets you categorize your blog entries with tags &#8211; like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Development.html\">Development<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Pound%20Cake.html\">Pound Cake<\/a> or what have you. However, they don&#8217;t provide an easy way to put these labels into your web page if your site is <a href=\"http:\/\/help.blogger.com\/bin\/answer.py?answer=44474\">not hosted on a Blogger server<\/a>, which the Library of Dresan is not. I&#8217;ve played around with this a bit, but have not yet figured out how to do it.<\/p>\n<p>But the directory structure of the labeled blogs is simple &#8211; just the subdirectory &#8220;labels&#8221; and a bunch of eponymous files like &#8220;Mission to Mars.html&#8221; or &#8220;Sith Park.html&#8221;. So I&#8217;m going to put these labels up myself right now, and write a 10-line or so Python program that will do it for me later.<\/p>\n<p>To make things easy, I&#8217;ve added an index.html to the labels directory, so you can just navigate to it to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/\">current list of labels<\/a>.  For historical interest, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got right now: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Artworks.html\">Artworks:<\/a> Essays or announcements about my and my wife&#8217;s art.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Book%20Review.html\">Book Review:<\/a> Um, what it says.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Dakota%20Frost.html\">Dakota Frost:<\/a> Essays about the Dakota Frost series.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Development.html\">Development:<\/a> Software development.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Dragon%20Writers.html\">Dragon Writers:<\/a> Creative writing and my friends in the writing life.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Edgeworks.html\">Edgeworks:<\/a> My circle of friends, the Edge.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Hard%20Science.html\">Hard Science:<\/a> Essays on science.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Hard%20Science.html\">Hard Science:<\/a> Essays on general science, usually physics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Intelligence.html\">Intelligence:<\/a> Essays on cognitive science and artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Mission%20to%20Mars.html\">Mission to Mars:<\/a> The Mars Desert Research Station.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Philosophy.html\">Philosophy:<\/a> Essays about my personal philosophy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Politics.html\">Politics:<\/a> Commentary on politics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Pound%20Cake.html\">Pound Cake:<\/a> My efforts to create a good homemade version of my fourth-most-favorite<br \/>food.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Restaurant%20Review.html\">Restaurant Reviews:<\/a> If all the tags were named like this then I wouldn&#8217;t need to write<br \/>clever descriptions, now would I?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Sith%20Park.html\">Sith Park:<\/a> Science fiction fandom<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Taidoka.html\">Taidoka:<\/a> Studies of Taido, my favorite martial art.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/The%20Break.html\">The Break:<\/a> When I broke my arm.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/The%20Cats.html\">The Cats:<\/a> Small, and covered in fur.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/This%20Guy%20Called%20Jesus.html\">This Guy Called Jesus:<\/a> On Christianity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/We%20Call%20It%20Living.html\">We Call It Living:<\/a> My life.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/labels\/Webworks.html\">Webworks:<\/a> Announcements about this family of websites, like this post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<br \/>-the Centaur<br \/><b>Update:<\/b> removed the image for this post after investigating the license and finding it was a GNU-style &#8220;poison&#8221; license that required GNUification of the entire post.  Sorry, Richard, I appreciate your efforts to make things available to the world but you don&#8217;t get my blog entries in exchange.  I can take my own dang photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger lets you categorize your blog entries with tags &#8211; like Development, Pound Cake or what have you. 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