katallison

God bless Roadrunner, honestly. For the past week I've been having recurrent internet problems, with the connection dropping every hour or so, requiring me to reboot the cable modem and snarl. This is very unusual--my connection's usually rock-solid--and I was dreading doing anything about it because calling tech support is such a renowned, time-honored exercise in total frustration. But this morning, after four reboots in an hour, I finally gathered up my fortitude and phoned in to Time Warner, and after going through a brief automated-menu thing, I got an extremely affable and competent support guy, who, while chitchatting amiably about the weather, also swiftly determined the source of my problem (low power supply, probably due to aging cable modem unable to cope with extra demands of wireless router), and advised me to just bring the modem in and swap it for a newer one. Yay!

In between bouts of kicking the modem back to life, I've been spending a low-pressure morning going through and tagging old entries. The project tweaks my perpetual interest in taxonomies and how people categorize and sort things--I'm wishing now I could view others' overall tag lists and see what kinds of general schema they're using. Me, I'm more a lumper than a splitter, which is to say I try to avoid making entry-specific tags but rather use larger categories like "fandom" and "job." Questions that have arisen thus far:
--Hm, should I just use "cons" or make separate "Escapade" and "Connexions" and "Vividcon" tags?
--Are "TV" and "movies" essentially subsets of "fandom" or do they need their own tags?
--Leave "computer" as one big category, or separate out "internet," "hardware," "software"?
--Is that "kerfuffle" tag just gonna make trouble for me at some point?

Anyway, it's amusing to think about how I organize this stuff, and to get a big-picture overview of what I tend to post about most often. (For the record, "fandom" and "weather" are tied for the lead at this point, which I guess is no surprise.)