Saturday, July 02, 2005

Psst, look aside!

Apology to my readers who are more interested in personal stuff, but this post will again be technology-oriented. But it's very cool, and nothing hard to understand :)

First, please finish reading this paragraph, and then follow its instructions. Look at the side bar. Scroll down, as you see stuff like "About Me", "Previous Posts", "Archives". And keep going...

(Now I give you a few seconds to do it)

Didn't you see something cool?? Hopefully with your name in it! This is a list of latest comments to my blog. When you move your mouse on the commentor's name, a tooltip shows you the first few words of the comment. You can click on it to see the page with the comments. This is made possible by LastHalo, an addon for HaloScan, my new comment service.

You may already see something missing: you can't tell what post the comment is for. Unfortunately, even after you click the commentor's name and open the page with comments, you have no way to get back to the original post. I read about this problem in HaloScan's forums; it seems Blogger makes it very hard to get back to the original post. There seems to be a partial solution, and I'll look into it soon.

So, why not leave a comment and be on the cool list? ;)

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