St. Blogs

I'm a St. Blog-ger now. I'm not moving anything; this blog (and Critical Mass) will remain active where they are. I'm just casting my net wider, so to speak.

The Pope... a blogger?

It could happen. At least, it's been suggested by the president of the Catholic Biblical Association of Hong Kong.

The jokes and puns on this abound. For example, the Pope's operating system would need to be an upgrade of redhat Linux, such as whitehat Linus (named after the second bishop of Rome).

And if you want to donate to the Pope's blogging cause, remember you can send your money digitally and securely via PaPal.

[H/T: The Curt Jester]

Blogger: The code for the alpha/freq taglist widget

This is the Label1 (alphabetical) widget:

<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Labels [Toggle]' type='Label'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:title'>
  <div class='widget-title'>
    <h1>Labels (<span style='text-decoration:underline'>Alpha</span>
    | <span onclick='document.getElementById("Label1").style.display="none";
      document.getElementById("Label2").style.display="block"'
      style='cursor:pointer;color:blue'>Freq</span>)</h1>
  </div>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
  <ul>
  <b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
    <li>
      <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:label.url'>
        <data:label.name/>
      <b:else/>
        <a expr:href='data:label.url'><data:label.name/></a>
      </b:if>
      (<data:label.count/>)
    </li>
  </b:loop>
  </ul>

  <b:include name='quickedit'/>
</div>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

This is the Label2 (frequency-wise) widget:

<b:widget id='Label2' locked='false' title='Labels [Toggle]' type='Label'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:title'>
  <div class='widget-title'>
    <h1>Labels (<span onclick='document.getElementById("Label2").style.display="none";
      document.getElementById("Label1").style.display="block"'
      style='cursor:pointer;color:blue'>Alpha</span> |
      <span style='text-decoration:underline'>Freq</span>)</h1>
  </div>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
  <ul>
  <b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
    <li>
      <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:label.url'>
        <data:label.name/>
      <b:else/>
        <a expr:href='data:label.url'><data:label.name/></a>
      </b:if>
      (<data:label.count/>)
    </li>
  </b:loop>
  </ul>

  <b:include name='quickedit'/>
</div>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

The only places the two widgets differ are:

1. Their widget ID (Label1 vs. Label2)
2. The code for clicking "Alpha" or "Freq"

That's all, really.

The only other step is adding something to your page's stylesheet (also through the HTML-template editor). You need to decide which of these widgets you want displayed by default. I have Label1 displayed by default, and Label2 hidden, so here's part of my stylesheet:

<style type="text/css">
#Label2 {
display: none;
}
</style>