I decided that my "Law School – The Process" category was getting too disproportionately big. (And it would only get bigger, since most of my posts talk about it, what with it being the ostensible focus of the blog.) So I split it up by year. I figure a year will run from July to July. The dates of my posts suggested that split, and I think it also makes sense. In July you start anticipating the upcoming year. In June you are still getting over the previous one.
I also finally (I think) figured out how to syndicate my site. I'd meant to do it before, when someone commented somewhere here that she'd really like me to do it. I'd like to write her back and tell her I have, but I can't figure out where her comment is to find her email address. (Edit: found it.) What I'd really like is for someone to tell me if I did it right. There's a link on the front page for the syndication, which links to here: http://www.cathygellis.com/mt/html/index.rdf. This is just my best guess though since I don't really know how RSS works. Poking around the MoveableType manual has not so far been helpful on this front.
Edit 11/26: Today I played with my first RSS newsreader. I'm using Thunderbird. It didn't like the URL above, but it did like this one so I've added it to the side navigation: http://www.cathygellis.com/mt/html/index.xml.
Beware with syndicated readings, though, that I frequently edit new posts. I almost wish there was a way I could keep things from going out on the RSS feed until 2 days after the post or something. I think the way it works the headline will go out, but when you click on the article you'll get the latest and greatest version that's posted. Which is fine, as long as you are aware that there may be a later version and don't just delete the article and move on. But I guess that could happen on the real site. Why would you reread an article you've already read? Maybe I'll just have to get better at editing up front...
(The other hazard of the syndication is that those horrible comment spams will go out if I haven't had a chance to delete them. Sorry. I don't mean to be the authority on penile implants and texas poker...)
Speaking of editing, my Musicians for Kerry posts have had some work done to them since first posted. I may still make some tweaks, but they're better than they were before 11/19.
Edit 12/2: It's interesting to note that even if a blog does not have a syndication link on it, it probably still syndicates. The blogging software seems to set up the xml pages automatically, whether the author explicitly advertises the links or not. For instance, apparently my blog was syndicated well before I got around to syndicating it...
Edit 12/8: The dark side of RSS: bandwidth consumption. The BoingBoing post referred to talked about only allowing one RSS download per day/update/other iteration. But I'm not sure how it was achieved. This isn't a huge problem for me though as a publisher - yet. I'm just not that popular... (darnit).