You know what I hate?

Wordpress plugins that include nifty libraries, classes, and hooks that you can use to act on items ... who then give as examples of their usage, special cases and not typical cases.

Context: FeedWordPress, which is doing what I want it to do, scrape items from the Facebook ConDFW fan page feed and post them to Wordpress as individual posts. However, as you don't have the option to put in a title on regular Facebook status updates, it posts the full item in the title field and in the post body field. :/

Enter said libraries, classes, and hooks. FeedWordPress has some nifty hooks you can use to act on various bits of the feed, and I simplified hacked a sample plugin they had to replace the title with "Update from Facebook," and that works beautifully. I'd like to add the date and time the item was posted to Facebook, but the examples for the published, updated, and created hooks are using Google Calendars, which as far as I can tell are different than your typical RSS feeds when it comes to the dates, which means the example is no good when it comes to explaining how to use it on other RSS feeds. Aaargh!

ETA: Or maybe not? Making a calendar I don't use public and getting the RSS feed for it shows a feed that looks about the same ... but I can't make the logic woooork! *whine*

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Walk 30 minutes 1 mi. Total: 983 mi. From Lorien: 125 mi. Continuing gray and overcast.

Went to the sub shop in the building next door to get lunch, but took the long way round campus. :D And realized I won't be able to do it much longer, as even though it's in the low 70s outside, my head was juuust barely starting to hurt. If it gets into the 80s, I'll have to walk inside to avoid triggering a migraine.

And I really should go through and change all these "bike" tags to "exercise" or something.

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H.P. Lovecraft meets Chick tracts.

Hmmm

Question: Suggestions on words or phrases that would be better served by using synonyms when searching for them?

Context: I'm writing another emergency post for L@L to be held until we need it, and I want to use examples that people would actually use, instead of the artificial ones I think up. :D

Examples: I'm talking about things like "teen smoking" vs. "adolescent tobacco use" (the latter will get you more scholarly sources), and "search engine strategies" vs. "how to use search engines" (the former is stuffed full of links to the Search Engine Strategies conference and utterly useless for finding actual strategies).

I was first thinking "fast weight loss" vs. "weight loss" because the former gets you get-skinny-quick schemes and the second gives you more useful links, but that's really more appropriate for a post on broadening your search, instead of synonyms.

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Walk 30 minutes 1 mi. Total: 984 mi. From Lorien: 126 mi. Continuing gray and overcast blah blah blah.

Aaaaand a walk around the neighborhood after work, too! PH33R MY EXERCISE!