Igenlode Wordsmith

I decided to add a chillies tag retrospectively to my blog (possibly I should do tomatoes, as well?), as I seem to write about them so often -- however it is likely to be of fairly questionable utility since just about *every* entry already tagged with plant-pots appeared to refer to chillies! I hadn't realised I'd been writing about them quite that much...

After working my way through the entire 200-odd list of posts tagged as being about growing plants, I ended up with 79 (at the time of writing) references to chillies amongst them. The tag probably *should* be a sub-tag of 'plant-pots', since they never occur independently, but it's rather a lot to type... and since there are very few posts that refer to chillies *without* also referring to other plants, most of those posts would end up with duplicate 'plant-pots' tags on them anyway.

I suspect I'm probably the only person who, when deciding that a new blog tag is needed, goes back through hundreds of past entries (I'm currently on ?skip=380) in order to locate all the places where it ought retrospectively to have applied :-p

It never did make much sense that I had a tag for cold but not one for heat -- it was just a matter of historical accident, dating back I think to importing my old blog from MySpace. Which I never did finish doing...

[Edit: I managed to navigate all the way to ?skip=770 (2016) using the "Previous 20" links, but beyond that the site only lets you view one post at a time and go to 'Previous Day', and since this is even slower than skimming the summary versions at 20 per page I've given up on re-tagging at around August 2015.]

Tagging sprint, Round Three!

I went back through years of posts (unfortunately I seem to have become more prolific again of late) trying to relocate the various ones where I've posted examples of rewritten or deleted material. Virtue was rewarded in that I did manage to track down the Carnegie Hall one I'd failed to find previously and assumed to be lost in a fanfiction.net PM conversation somewhere:
https://igenlode.dreamwidth.org/101703.html

I also took the opportunity to go through and use an emulated browser to access (and paste in content from) the various archived Tumblr links that no longer work, adding another new tag for that: https://igenlode.dreamwidth.org/tag/tumblr
Unfortunately cosette_giry's list of 19th century female names has not only moved blog address since it was posted, but has subsequently been deleted :-(

Tagging sprint, Round Two!

Finally created a Gustave tag and went all the way back to 2012 again (240 posts) looking for all the posts where I would have tagged him had the tag existed at the time. I found twenty-two — plus this one. A waste of a very considerable amount of time, since character tags are really not that helpful on Dreamwidth.

(But then very few of the others are either, once they get used sufficiently often to make it difficult to find the specific entry I'm looking for...)