Lee Clemmer {dot} com

So working on allbiodiesel.net I came across a great plugin by Dan Grossman, WP Calais Archive Tagger, which is really only the step brother of the WP Calais Auto Tagger, which due to its granular application is less interesting to me.  Basically this plugin parses your blog posts, analyzes your text, and spits bag tags that it thinks are descriptive of the blogpost.

Hm, no big deal you might say, and I would agree if you’re talking about a little blog (like this one for example), where you don’t write that many posts.  However, once you start thinking about feed aggregation, this becomes a fascinating -  and extremely useful - tool.  With hundreds of posts coming in every day (I use FeedWordPress), there’s no way I’m going to tag all of them.  Being able to automatically parse and tag posts become invaluable then.

The problem: WP Calais Auto Tagger lets you auto generate tag as you’re writing the post.  However, with feed aggregation, you’re not actually writing the post, they are generated automatically.  So this is useless. Ok, WP Calais Archive Tagger is getting close to the problem: it lets me autotag my entire archive of posts.  Ok, so I tag 300 posts, and the next day 50 are added… well, it tags all 350 now.  Plus I’d have to go in and manually hit the button.  Do I want to do this every day? No.  So, what I am was looking for was something that would do this automatically for me.

I’ll be the first to admit, my PHP programming skills are horrible, totally not 733+.  However, I can look at some code and figure out what’s going on.  A few echo statements sprinkled throughout and I catch on; change a variable here or there and see what it does, ok, I get it.  So I took the WP Calais Archive Tagger code, stripped it down so that it could be run through a cron job (meaning it had to instantiate the WP environment itself), and voila, I’ve got posts coming in automatically and then soon thereafter being tagged… automatically. While I’m sleeping.  My tag cloud is building itself.  Knowledge, patterns, trends emerging while I sit back and relix.

Pretty cool.

Anyway, long story short, here’s the file I hacked up.  Enjoy!

http://www.leeclemmer.com/calais-cron-tagger.rar

Update (8/20/2008): Please be aware that you need to have the Calais Archive Tagger installed first for this to work

So I recently got into modding (or more specifically, day-dreaming about modding) and found some useful resources.  Specifically, mnpctech.com is check full of tutorials and resources.  Of course you should also check out the Overclockers Club forum.

I actually did do some stuff to my comp recently: got a new phatty 22″ Samsung flatscreen monitor, newLogitech keyboard and mouse, blue LED fan, and some cables to clean up the case interior.  Also figured out that my power supply indeed does have holes for the back bracket (so it’s no longer loose), and the reason why my sound card seemed not to work (sound was being sent to onboard sound card).  Also overclocked my Athlon XP 2500 to 2800 (166Mhz x 12.5 for a total of 2,075 Ghz… and yes, I know it’s old).  Now I need to get another Gig or 2 so I can run my memory dual channel, run the FSB at 200Mhz and try to crank to the CPU up to 2200Ghz and beyond.  Perhaps I’ll also get the ATI Radeon HD 2600 for my AGP (haha) slot, at least I’ll Direct X 10 then, and a nice 512MB graphics card.  Also looking out for a Socket A liquid cooling system (harder to find than I thought) to play around with that.  With a somewhat older system, a little money can really go a long way in cranking extra juice out of the machine.  And I’m also thinking about giving real modding a go and taking an as-of-yet-not-purchased power drill to an old case I have laying around and install some 120MM fan holes and give the whole thing a nice makeover from beige to electric blue… maybe some tear drop shaped holes in the side lit up by white neon lights might also give the whole thing a cool effect.

Modding… combining craftsmanship with creativity and über-geekiness, now that sounds like a good time no?