Labels

I have almost finished the epic task of labelling nearly 2,000 posts. If you are a new blogger please learn from this and do it from the beginning. On September 10th I said the task would take me three weeks and it turns out to have been double that.

I think I have become clearer in my use of labels as I have worked through the task so some of my early efforts might have had too specific a label, later ones I may have ignored some more appropriate possibilities. I'll tweak the system as I go but it gives a general idea of what sort of things I write about.

Click on a label and all the posts under that heading will be appear in chronological order.

Interesting that my key labels have been, in current order:

Church (which is, after all, my work)
Biography (by which I mean posts that tell you more about me than any other subject)
Life Skills (things worth learning or mistakes best not making - call it 'wisdom')
Music
Theology
Language
Bible
Politics
Book review
Football
Food
Family

I think this list does express my interests in about the right order. My family will all understand that coming 12th says nothing about what they mean to me.

Blogging Lessons

Going back over the history of my blog and inserting labels is demanding but I'm biting it off at the rate of about 100 a day, so it will take less than three weeks to finish. One thing I've noticed, and I apologise to those of you who have been with me for a long time, is my tendency to multi-subject posting. It will make searching much easier if, in future (and I may find I've already settled down a bit but I hadn't by 2005) I try to keep each post about one separate thing. My tendency to want to include a joke, if I can think of one, each time is going to make for over-use of the label 'funny.' Funny that.