2004.01.31
Categorically Speaking
I’m subscribed to the Blosxom Mailing List and a recent entry mentioned an entries_template plugin that I’d never heard of. I went to Pomin Wu’s website to see what else he’d done. I soon discovered it is in Chinese with a smattering of English so most of it is unintelligible to me. I did see, however, one of the more brilliant schemes for categories I’ve run into yet.
Pomin Wu has created a subject/verb/(object) category system that is clever, simple, and coherent. For example he has a category called “me” where he sometimes talks about “drinking” and in one case specifically about “coffee”. How simple! /me/drinking/coffee! Much simpler and more specific than where I would probably file something like that, such as /journal/life or possibly /private/life/fun or something.
Further examples are /me/eating, computer/blogging/blosxom, /me/fancying, and /realworld/adopting. You can see them all in the popup menu on the right side of his site.
Simple, elegant and linguistic even. Kudos to you, Pomin Wu!
Categorized: geek
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