Mass movement, to review or to code, and other stuff

[corinthum]

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Mass movement of posts
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How exactly are posts' codes saved behind the scenes of the catalogue?
 Is there a way to recode a long list of posts without doing it
manually post by post?  I've started moving posts from the Admission
process category to their new homes, but it may take a while, and is
mind-numbingly tedious.  Posts can basically be divided into four
categories:

1) Admission process posts: no change
2) School population posts: drop 3.16.3 and add 3.16.3.2
3) Reject group 1: drop 3.16.3
4) Reject group 2: drop 3.16.3, add 0.0.5 and reject marker

Any way to automate this?

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To review or to code
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Would you prefer me to continue reviewing the rest of my sections
(Sorting process, School discipline, and Teachers, plus subcategories)
or go back to coding?

I'd like to finish my reviews now.  I won't be able to do any
reviewing once I go to sea, since my version of the catalogue will be
static (I can add category changes like last time, but won't be able
to see newly coded posts or the results of others' reviews).

However, the post counts of my remaining categories are a bit daunting...

Sorting process: 343 in main, 1101 in subcategories
School discipline: 73 in main, 133 in subcategory
Teachers: 147 in main, 378 in subcategories

If I dive into the review, I probably won't code very much (I'll still
do some, since I find it difficult to review at work, but can fit in a
little coding now and then).  However, once out on the boat, I'll pick
up the coding pace quite a bit over my current rate.

I think it's important that we finish as many reviews as possible by
launch date.  Actually, I think finishing the reviews is more
important than reaching our thereshold OoP post before launching the
catalogue.  Adding new categories will obviously be necessary
post-launch, as the final two books are published and new characters
and topics are introduced.  But we should try to avoid any
reorganization and redefining of the categoies that already exist,
since this could be annoying and confusing to the catalogue users.

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Other stuff
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On a completely unrelated and off-topic note, to all you Brits, do you
learn to spell by sound rather than letter?  My sister works in a
popular destination for British tourists (well, tourists of all
nationality, really, but half of the UK seems to migrate there at
certain times of the year).  And she's noticed that when she asks
young kids to spell their names, they don't use letters, but sounds. 
For example, my name would be k at -e-@l- at l-j@  rather than
keI-i:-el-el-waI.  Is this a widespread technique for learning to
spell over there?

And on another slightly off-topic note, abovementioned sister was
visiting me this weekend, and we got into a HP discussion, at which
point I noticed just how far beyond the normal range of HP obsession I
have journeyed.  She's a big fan and has read the books multiple
times.  But she didn't realize there was a huge internal inconsistancy
about the number of students at Hogwarts...  never realized that if we
assumed a large Weasley age gap and if we filled that gap with a
missing son, then Ron is a seventh son and that just might imply he's
a seer... passed right over Mark Evans without a second glance... had
no clue who Florence was.  Hmmm...     

-Kelly