Today I switched hosts (Bluehost to Dreamhost) for this site. It was John’s idea; Dreamhost is better for various reasons that I’m sure he’s explained several times. I think the switch went smoothly, but if you see anything that appears to be broken, let me know. And for anyone who is about to comment that my face appears to be broken, yes, yes, you’re very funny. Run along now.

One highlight of mucking around in the blog’s innards is that I finally figured out how to remove that obnoxious “miscellany” tag from my tag cloud.

Here’s the totally boring story: I prefer tags to categories. WordPress used to have only categories. A few versions ago they added tags, but they still kept categories. Every post must be assigned to a category. If you don’t assign it to one, it goes into the default category, which I’d named “miscellany.” I stopped using categories when tags came along, so all my posts went into the “miscellany” category. I can’t delete that category.

Unfortunately, WordPress seems to have trouble keeping categories and tags separate. To every post that by default went into the *category* “miscellany,” it secretly added a *tag* “miscellany.” This ruined my tag cloud, making all the real tags tiny in comparison to the enormous, meaningless MISCELLANY.

This has been bothering me for probably a year now, but today I finally found a way to delete WordPress’s made-up “miscellany” tag. The cloud looks much better now, don’t you think?