After six years of this blog, I’ve decided to redesign and reorganize. I don’t want to start over, but as I and WordPress have changed over the years, this site has developed category and tag entropy!

WordPress provides a rudimentary feature to turn individual categories into tags. Entropy and mess in tags is ok, as they provide emergent information, “wisdom of the clouds.” But categories are not tags, and I have plans for them, so I want to pare them down, and not post-by-post.

Thank goodness for Batch Categories, a miraculous plugin that lets you filter by categories, tags or even keywords, and update, remove, or replace categories and tags across whole groups of posts. I’m not done yet, but it’s making this mountain climbable.