Tagging

[stoutfellow]

I recently learned about tagging livejournal posts - attaching keywords descriptive of the contents. This struck me as a good idea, so I changed over to Style 2 (which allows tagging) and went through my archived posts, tagging them as seemed appropriate. Fortunately, I've only been LJing for a year and a half, so this wasn't too lengthy a task. I'm not entirely satisfied with the set of tags I'm using, so I may make another pass-through sometime soon to adjust things.

Who cares?

"I told you that so I could tell you this." I noticed that it's been almost six months since my last post on mathematics. As it happens, the material I covered in my geometry class Thursday night is kind of neat and fairly self-contained, so I thought I'd recap it on LJ. Basically, it involves taking a close look at the differences and similarities between Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic (Bolyai-Lobachevsky) geometry. (They are more closely related to each other than either is to the third option, elliptic [Riemannian] geometry.) I'll put most of it under cuts, of course; it'll probably take three or four posts.

Comments

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to it.

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

Also looking forward to it.

Any pitfalls in a switch to Style 2? (Also contemplating that. Why didn't I do so at first? Young and foolish. :<{ )

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

The only advice I'd give is to be wary of the choices of format. There are a lot of possibilities, some of which I find very ugly; I went, conservatively, with the "classic" version. I may switch later, but this one is at least not eye-jarring.

[filkferengi]

Good for you! There are some people of whom I'm quite fond, but their journals are less-than-easy to read, because the background & colors they've chosen hurt the eyes. There's nothing wrong with readily legible.

What's style 2?

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

For full details, go here (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=168). For my purposes, the important point is that it allows tagging, and Style 1 doesn't.

[filkferengi]

Thanks!