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I’d never thought about looking at my weblog statistics like this until Paul did it, but…

Entries (3712)
Comments (8888)

That gives me a 2.39 comment per post average. Not bad, though you could make a good argument that the average is inflated thanks to certain pages. ;)

“Black Party (full mix)” by Various Artists from the album Black Party (1997, 1:13:50).

A little bit of silliness being resurrected after finding an old post — is my weblog Hot or Not?

I’ve been using the free traffic monitoring service StatCounter for some time now to get an idea of how much traffic I’m pulling in. Here’s a look at the past year’s traffic for Eclecticism:

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A little bit more work on improving the tags.app implementation here.

By default, tags.app’s results page from performing a tag search is very sparse — simply a bulleted list of post titles, presented ten at a time. One of the first things I did when tweaking my install was to enhance the page a bit by adding post excerpts, author, and time/datestamps to each entry. I also added a list of ‘related tags’ in the sidebar of the results page.

While tinkering around with adding the tag search field tonight, I realized that it shouldn’t be hard at all for me to add easy tag intersection searches to the tag results page. A few tweaks later, and it’s done: when a search on a tag is performed, the list of related tags now includes a small ‘[+]‘ symbol before each tag. Clicking on the tag itself will start a new search for that tag alone — but clicking on the [+] will add that tag to the search (and narrow down the ‘related tags’ list dramatically). I’ve been playing with this, and it’s making it very easy to drill down through the thousands of entries on the site very quickly.

Code snippets follow.

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…this is only a test.

Update: And it’s a test that worked — my favorite kind!

Last month, I added tag support to the site, courtesy of tags.app. While it’s been working quite well, I’d occasionally want to look for a tag that wasn’t displayed as a clickable link on whatever page I was on. I’d been getting around this by clicking on any tag to perform a search and then editing the URL in the browser’s address bar to get to the search I really wanted. Obviously, not a very user-friendly solution.

With a little simple form editing, things are much simpler now. In the sidebar there are now two search fields available. The first is the standard full-text search that comes standard with every Movable Type installation. The second (or the one at the top of this post, for that matter) ties into tags.app’s search capability, so you can now search for arbitrary tags. You can even search for tag intersections by entering multiple tags separated by spaces.

Quick, simple, and easy to use. Some days you’d almost think I knew what I was doing around here.

For the record, here’s the code I inserted just below the div that the standard search field lives in:

<div>
 <form method="get">mt-tags.cgi"&gt;
  " /&gt;
  <label for="tagsearch">Tag Search:<br />
   (Separate multiple tags with spaces)</label><br />


 </form>
</div>

“She’s Hot” by Sheep on Drugs from the album One for the Money (1997, 3:50).