Cleaning Up Some Posts

This is post number 571 (even if the node id is 709).

Over the last couple of days, I have been fixing what I am calling a problem with the documents I had converted into Drupal from the original MovableType version of this site. The first 479 posts all had a greater than sign (>) dangling on a line after the text. I do not know specifically where this was introduced. It showed up in the data as an character entity. I have to assume it was an artifact of the migration scripts that converted from MT entries to Drupal nodes.

This took me about 2 days of free time to do.

While I do not really want to do that exercise again, it was not completely without merit. It did allow me to categorize the first 480 posts. The category information did not get migrated from MT to Drupal. I do not remember if this was a limitation of the script, or if it was something I had done.

The important part of this categorization is that I had to read each of the first 480 posts in order to figure out where they went. And being I did not convert all of the old MT categories to Drupal, it provided me an opportunity to make decisions about where each node belonged.

There have, of course, been additional changes to how I classify nodes. Weather was a category, and is again. Most of the new content about weather is more than likely going to end up in the SysMango fourm for Weather. Just saying there is a storm coming in circulation does not itself mean I have anything to say about the storm, even if I am tracking the storm.

I do have some additional work with categories and taxonomy. Many of the nodes ended up in either Diversions (135 nodes) or under one of the terms under Life (209 nodes). This seems artificial and maybe forced, and even lazy.

And I may consider introducing some new modules to deal with how taxonomy is presented.

The site still does not have a niche, and I do not want to make it too specialized.

I am still happy to invite friends, family and interested on lookers to create accounts, post comments and create new comment in the forums.