which, to the daughter of a pilot such as mine fine self, is counterintuitive in the extreme, but there ya go. The world don’t make no sense. Deal.
So here, without further ado, is the tag cloud that engtech rigged up for us WordPress users. I could paste this into a page, but what the heck, it’s not dynamic anyway, and nobody ever reads my pages except bitter Midwesterners and confused Bristolliacs.
Tag clouds, if you’re not finding the concept listed on the Weather Channel, are indices of the tags/categories used on a blog, with the size of each directly proportional to the number of uses of the tag. I had no idea I posted about politics this much!
By the way, I didn’t tag this with every tag that’s relevant, because that would be spamming the tag system, and we all know how I hate that. At least, those who crossed me once and now have to keep changing their names, yeah: they know how I hate that.
That this particular version of the tag cloud is all overlappy-like is on the one hand a bug, but on the other a perfect metaphor. You doubt? Read more of this blog and all will become clear.
Tag me, bay-bee!
Entertainment Allegory Politics Celebrity Blogging Literary Fans Blogroll Crime Sex Videos Canada Movies Travel Science Historical Lush Life Religion Singles sad Books Censorship Art War Family Dating Uncategorized Work Vancouver Squid Christianity YouTube Hoaxes Operation Global Media Domination Wildlife Porn humor Emergency Supernatural Sports Physics technology Etiquette Holiday philosophy Quizzes and tests capitalism music Christmas The Shebeen Club animals Science Fiction Archive tragedy gender Fantasy Public Service Announcement Random Thoughts horror Pets podcasts beauty contests Games Technorati Cthulhu Olympics how to environment comics fashion Plush writing Anna Nicole Smith Donnie Davies Generation X Islam architecture Iraq Professor raincoaster’s little lectures Valentine’s Day advice cooking hacking 2007 resolutions cars Daniel Radcliffe Google Jokes kids pirates quotes ATHF charity iPod Operation Orwell Apple Britney Spears betting Culture flash fiction Humour knitting mashups media Oscars poetry practical jokes Star Trek Star Wars Weird
Created by WordPress.com Tag Cloud Generator by //engtech
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The overlappy-thing is a bug? I thought it was meant to look like that. It looks especially cool overlapping when set to ‘alphabetical’ rather than font size.
Yep, it’s a bug. I personally don’t mind it at all for the purposes of this post, but if it were to be a utility (as it’s supposed to be) it shouldn’t overlap at all.
I’ll pop over and check yours to see the alphabetical arrangement. Too sleepy to get that done tonight.
Actually, yeah, that does look good.
The one on the page (rather than on the post) is the most recent, though I’m using engtech’s first version. Even though it’s not dynamic I think it functions well as a utility. it’s just the font size that would need to be updated every now and then. But yeah, the overlapping can be a bit annoying. Still, it looks more like a cloud that way.
I liked the way you laid out that page; it’s almost bilingual. I’m definitely ripping it off (properly attributed, of course).
Bilingual? :?
For those who process information spatially and those who process it in a linear fashion. It works for both kinds of thinkers.
Sure tag clouds are great and “Orwell” makes your list but what about the very scary RFID CLOUD.
:-)
What about that? Well, I think you shouldn’t re-post entire articles, even attributed, without the owner’s permission, that’s what I think. Also, your Links widget is floating right over the middle of the text so I can’t read the body of the article and your ad-packed sidebars are intrusive.
Also, the fact that it’s Google Adsense on a purportedly pro-Orwell blog, surrounding an article on RFID is something Orwell himself would find ironic in the Beckettian sense.
As for the article itself, like I said, I can’t read it till you move that image.
> I can’t read it till you move that image.
I can’t move anything – because it’s not my site.
The page looks perfect to me in both IE and Firefox. Which image is the problem for you? I will send a note to the webmaster. I like that site.
If it’s not your site, it shouldn’t be part of your name: that’s the protocol. The link on your name goes to YOUR URL. If that’s not your URL, don’t be claiming it in that fashion.
> If it’s not your site, it shouldn’t be part of your name: that’s the protocol.
I didn’t realise that. I thought I could put in any URL I liked. Where is this “protocol” explained? I’m not an expert in this area.
> The link on your name goes to YOUR URL.
Actually all it says on your page is “URI”, it does not say “YOUR URL”.
Anyway, you never answered the question in my last post: “The page looks perfect to me in both IE and Firefox. Which image is the problem for you?”
Thanks.
You’re right, I didn’t, because if it’s not your site and you’re not getting the interference, it really isn’t your problem. I’m not sure if you’re aware, but what that site is doing is illegal.
There are many aspects of protocol that aren’t written down but are understood, often through interactions like this. I’m sure your mother didn’t tell you not to put initials after your name that you didn’t earn at a school or in the military or seminary, but you wouldn’t do that. If you take a quick browse around this, or any, site, you’ll find that while there are all kinds of links around, the ones on peoples’ names go directly to their own sites. Test it.
Is this is a flash game?