For a long time Blogrolling has been broken. I finally got around to trashing it and using the Blogger blog roll widget. Created the list fresh from scratch. Bruised egos are welcome to drop hints.
Here's a weird thing. All the Blogger blogs have the Blogger favicon next to them instead of whatever favicon the blogger has implemented. This is because if you approach the Blogger blog from a certain direction, the Blogger favicon is the only one you will see. I figured that out awhile ago. But I don't remember what I figured out, or why, or how, or (again) what, so just drop it, huh? Geez.
Just before I did, or maybe while I was doing it, I found my Blogrolling blog roll was gone and my old blog roll from a couple years ago was in its place, full of blogs long dead, moribund, or banished. That was weird and unsettling. Got rid of that list right quick.
What a tiny box we live in, full of tiny details, when we decide to be a blogger. Or any other sort of hobbyist. Yes, I said hobbyist. What do you think we are, writers?
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8 comments:
oh hay! i'm a writerz!
Top o' the list! And it didn't even cost any favors.
Poop, mine is the orange B. But yay I'm there!
Yeah, there's gotta be a better way.
OK, now I want to spend all day discovering some way to automagically extract the favicon path that, if they have one, is embedded in people's templates, so their favicon can display next to their blog instead of the orange B. A born tinkerer. It's probably not possible. Phoo.
It looks like you discovered how. Lizard Dreams has her URL favicon. Now I want to know how to do that.
No, gekko has her own site and blogger grabs her favicon from there. The orange B's are all the one for blogspot. The favicons we point to in our templates are invisible to an external program such as the linkie widget so all we get is the B, or that W for wordpress. Kind of a drag. There might be some way to write a clever script to extract people's chosen favicons but it's way beyond my interest level to bother figuring out how. And the widget is incapable of dealing with Sal's address at all. I'm in the market for a better blogroller.
"Yes, I said hobbyist. What do you think we are, writers? "
You and Mr. Lee... "Are you doing another blooooog post, Asha?"
Ps. I agree. All the Bs in a row are BS. Very greedy of B_logger.
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