Cephalopodcast - The Ocean Podcast

I’ve been taking short day hikes along a leg of the Appalachian Trail this weekend. I hope to share some photos and videos of my salamander and crayfish hunts soon. But there are other buggers I’ve been dealing with in the evenings, and most of them live underneath this old blog.

Climbing K2

In the past I’ve used one of the default templates that comes with every Wordpress install called Kubrick. Despite the lure of fancier templates, the clean lines and spartan markup of Kubrick have kept me from wandering. But lately some of the theme’s limitations were beginning to chafe. So I was happy to come across a suitable replacement that adds a lot of razzmatazz without altering the overall look and feel. It is called K2, and no surprise, it has its origins in the same place as Kubrick.

Please feel free to kick the tires of this new template and let me know if anything breaks or looks off. I still have some work to do under the dashboard, but I am ever so much happier with the way it is turning out.

Tags vs. Categories in Wordpress

Another nagging details that has bothered me is the proliferation of categories and tags in my blog. Tags are a recent option in Wordpress and I am afraid my whole blog taxonomy has gotten messy. Fortunately, I came across this post over at Lorelle on Wordpress and it cleared the difference up for me instantly:

A category is a table of contents for your blog posts, segregating your posts with grouped like-content.

A tag is an index word that helps you micro-categorize your blog posts.

I just published the 300th post and am not relishing the idea of going back to sort this matter out. But I’ve got one more day of vacation and the OCD in me really does enjoy making things tidy.

Other than that, most of the work is done and now I hope to get back to my goal of focused features. As a teaser, here’s a delightful photo of my family’s dog making a funny face. He seems to be wildly pleased with the 12 ft burrow he dug into the mountain side.