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A Minor Confession

Aug 7, 2005
Johan Svensson

I don’t like the verb “blog.” Actually, I kind of hate it. I despise sentences like “I blogged about this or that.”

But then I thought to myself, “Self, what is it you’re doing here if it’s not blogging?”

Well, I feel like I’m going the same thing I’ve done since 1995 or so, only some people now call it blogging. I still call it writing. This is a blog, but I write on it.

I like words. One might even say I’m a big fan of them, both the words themselves and their visual representation. Typography is how I got interested in etymology. Sadly, blog turned into a hyped-up overused word that started to replace the already perfectly good word write.

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Visited

Aug 5, 2005
Johan Svensson

Why on earth didn’t I think of this myself? It’s so simple to do, yet incredibly elegant. Here’s what:

That’s the list of recent del.icio.us links over at Lisa McMillan’s site. When I first visited I wondered why those two links had marked checkboxes, and when I realized they were links I had visited earlier I instantly started to mentally slap my forehead for not thinking about that myself.

I’m totally stealing that idea for whenever I design my own theme for WordPress. It’s very simple to do: make a list with unvisited links having one background, and visited links another background. It looks much more special and attractive than changing the link text alone.

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