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Dual screen laptop (via /.)
There is no spoon notes that David Watson
[has come] to the rescue for Radio users who would like to add "autolinking" or automatic "backlinking" to their blogs. He's created a little webservice called "getReferers" that automatically generates a list of links to the sites who are linking to you. It then helpfully puts that list at the end of your page. Allowing your readers to see who is linking to you helps to put your comments in contextHe (she?) also mentions what's different about my implementation: "By the way, I think the way JimsLog handles this referer feature is the best I've seen because it indicates referers by post." Thanks. I don't know enough about how radio works, but if you can script with it on the level of apache environmental variables then it's pretty easy to have your backlink system only activate on requests for specific posts, rather than general links to your page (for me, in my system, this just means watching for a numeric query string - like ?4454 on the end of the REQUEST_URI - which will always be a link to a specific post.) I'd love it if radio got this feature.
A couple of lingering problems. I was sure I had the back link thing filtering out links back from the same page (I don't want it recording back links originating on my own page.) But this doesn't seem to be the case now. I'll get that sorted this week.
My friends from Montana arrive today. I'm very excited. The timing of everything is working out so well. I've been very busy finishing things, and now they arrive just as I am ready to pick my head up, switch gears, and take a long look around. I think Frank was here once before when I did that. In fact, I think that's what started me back into computers in the summer of '99. I wonder what's next.
David McCusker did mention me today, and now it seems that my last name is out. I guess I sort of like that. I wish I could be more revealing about my home life like he is. It's very interesting to read. If it was a book I would be staying up late to see what happens with Lisa and the Taekwondo studio. As this isn't the case MB and I stayed up late finishing Return of the King. This was her first time through. It's great to read out loud.