Thursday, 19th June 2003
Blog genealogy
When else would I ever get to see my name in a list along with the likes of Shelley Powers, Mark Pilgrim, Sam Ruby, Simon Willison and Ian Hickson?
It seems I have spawned a blog, by someone else who's doing things with ESF.
I'm so proud.
(And also wondering whether this post has the lowest ratio yet of words to hyperlinks.)

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'When else would I ever get to see my name in a list along with the likes of Shelley Powers, Mark Pilgrim, Sam Ruby, Simon Willison and Ian Hickson?'
In the grand tradition of answering rhetorical questions, I say: Aquarion's blogroll.
I don't call this proper genealogy anyway. When I see a family tree I want marriages, divorces, old men marrying young women and vice versa, illegitimate children, tragic early deaths, and people disappearing into obscurity. If it's fleshed out with a little bit of incest and murder, then so much the better. BlogTree is so tame.
argh! use your title tags!
Who, me?
I think that was directed at me - I have a bad habit of not using the title attribute in my hyperlinks because I used Opera for about six months, and in Opera if you hover over a link with a title attribute the status bar will, in an effort to be helpful, display the title of the link instead of the URL. This always annoyed me because I usually want to see the URL before I click on a link, so I stopped using the attribute. Now that I've switched to Mozilla Firebird, however (Use Mozilla!) I have no excuse.
It's been fixed for this post, anyway :)
what version of opera were you using? in mine [7.11] the status bar [which you can show\hide using the view menu] shows the url of the link, and hovering over the link pops up the title attribute info, if any has been defined, _and_ the url it points to.
Yeah, that changed somewhere between 7.03 (the version I did have, which does as Cathy described) and 7.11 (which I just downloaded). The new style is very slick.
Ah right... I have 7.0. Damn you people, you're going to make me go back to Opera again just when I'd made the switch successfully!
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