On Website Formatting/Maintenance, Etc.:
(Musings of your humble servant at
Rerum Novarum)
In posting the most recent thread pertaining to the president and the issue of the Iran deal, I found myself thinking of the subject of war and remembered that one of the tags on this page that I have utilized for a long time is the
War/WOT/Etc. tag. I remember when the tagging feature was first made available on this platform roughly ten years ago and I set out
in piecemeal fashion creating various tags to better categorize posts for easier access and perusal by pertinent subject matter. As is my wont with rough drafts be they in writing or otherwise, the tags initially were longer and I ran into space limits. I noted this not long after posting the first thread on these matters with an expository musing detailing an even further expansion on the tagging method including the distinction between major{1} and minor tags.{2}
Basically, after taking some time in years past to thoroughly categorize every post in my archive, everything eventually was tagged at least in a rudimentary fashion. It took no shortage of time because of a principle I have utilized from day one that I do not purge or otherwise airbrush my archives because of a concern that I have for history being accurately reported, even when the latter is not to my own benefit. Or as I noted when detailing the largest such formatting project of its kind:
Essentially, we would be less than fully honest if we did not admit that there are some postings in the archive which we do not find to be of value anymore for a variety of reasons which we are not going to delve into at the moment[...] except to note one significant reason which went into this determination.
For you see, your host has refused to purge his archives of stuff which in retrospect he regrets posting. Part of the reason for this is principles as we have been critical of others for trying to airbrush the historical record at their own sites to avoid telling the truth about their past actions or statements in a given point of time. But another reason is that life itself is a process of growth and development across a broad continuum. This includes weblog writing and interests.
We have no problem admitting that it took a bit of time before this weblog really started to take a discernible shape and some of the features and/or principles which have become standard or typical over time were in the "finding their feet" stage early on. [Excerpt from Rerum Novarum (circa May 15, 2007)]
In the interest of fairness, I have to note that I later made
exactly four exceptions to the above rule in the interest of attempting to foster a greater atmosphere of both civility as well as charity. And while all the effort I put into that endeavour was unfortunately not appreciated or reciprocated by those for whom it was intended; it would be less than honest if I did not admit to the above exceptions to my general rule. But that is neither here nor there as I am getting off the general point of this posting; ergo, let us return to it now.
After finally getting a general pattern of tagging down, I had to later on do
a mess of reformatting to condense a number of tags as I found space constraints in this area to have hit a kind of critical mass. Today's revisions are much less extensive; however, as it was a stretch of years since anything of this sort was undertaken, it seemed appropriate to explain my rationale a bit at this time.
So as I posted a thread yesterday which could indirectly pertain to the subject of war, I found myself thinking the previous tag which I created for that subject was to a certain extent obsolete at least in my mind. So I decided on the following revision to the pertinent tag which will be obrogated with this posting:
War/WOT/Etc.
That tagging with the publication of the present material has been changed on all previously tagged postings of its type and will henceforth read as follows:
War
I also decided to change the description which from its founding up to the present read as follows:
My musings on ...well...basically whatever I want to muse on...
It will henceforth read:
Musings on whatever I want to muse on...
All things to the contrary notwithstanding.
Notes:
{1}
So while the weblog probably will not be close to fully and thoroughly archived until summertime but as it is, the entire weblog has been given a preliminary go-through. While still far from complete, it can now be said that nearly 100% of the posts to this weblog can be broken down into eighteen non-overlapping primary categories. [Excerpt from Rerum Novarum (circa May 15, 2007)]
{2}
Taken together, the eighteen categories above comprise by our count 100% of all posts to this weblog as primary categorizations. But besides those primary categories, there are also various additional tags including the following which will at some point be added as applicable to all the various postings on this weblog to which they can be ascertained to apply[.] [Excerpt from Rerum Novarum (circa May 15, 2007)]
{3} I go over this matter in the following thread:
Commemorating A Controversial Anniversary (circa August 17, 2017)
