Greg In The Desert

Technorati has come out with a new feature that allows you to “tag” your entries, then find other entries that are similarity taged and also find photos from Flickr. Really, a tag is a category and guess what, one already categories posts in iBlog so lets incorportate this feature.

You can see on my main blog page I have a “Related” link next to the category page. When you click it, it will take you to the technorati tag page. The code is pretty simple:

< a href="http://technorati.com/tag/<$>" rel="Tag">Related</a>

You use this code on both the BlogPage.txt and EntryPage.txt template files. Due to the high level of consistency in iBlog, you will need to use slighlty different code for CategoryPage.txt file:

< a href="http://technorati.com/tag/<$>" rel="Tag">Related</a>

note: There’s an extra space just before the “a href” that you will need to remove.

I don’t know if “Related” is the best way to describe it, it should be easy enough that any vistor should be able to figure out what it means. That may need some work still. But I think it works pretty good.

I couldn’t agree more with Alton Brown when he says (June 10th, BTW).

“I?m just saying that people with authority should have to play by a set of rules…published rules. If as a nation we?re going to have to tolerate being probed, scanned, profiled and frisked before we can get on an airplane, so be it. But it seems to me that we deserve a little consistency. Otherwise we open ourselves up to a whole new brand of bully…bullies with badges…not to mention really nice omelet pans.”

(TSA = Transportation Security Administration)

In the year before September 11th, 2001 I was working away from home in California. I flew back and forth for 9 months and got quite familiar with the airport system. I was luck that my assignment was over just before those planes crashed into the towers. At the time I thought it a good idea to turn over security to the feds. I mean, they should be doing for the safety of the citizens instead of for the money (not that “for the money” is a bad thing). Having been through security since then I can think that it is nothing more than a joke. They have random searches of peoples shoes? Give me a break.