The Timeline of Life
January 6, 2003 03:00 AM
Looking at Victor's attempt at plotting a timeline of blog posts (as opposed to the frequency distribution of blog posts across a day in MTBlogTimes), it seems very trivial to plot the timeline of your life using MT and SVG.
It would be as easy as creating an index template for the SVG file, creating entries corresponding to the events you wish to include on your blog and generating the SVG file. It is quite possible. And if you get frightenend by the word SVG, go here.
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Sachin Nair said...
Yea this would be interestng if we ever blog say, for a span of decades. Maybe our great grand children might learn history by following blog times .. hehe ..
btw, new blog up & running ... ahoy at sachinnair.com ( pardon the main index page..atleast for the time being) .. Update your kautilya links will ya .. its kautilya.sachinnair.com these days .. :)
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It seems I spoke too early (when saying it occured to me first) or too late, actually. I mean that, when I wrote that, I had thought about it for a long time, and probably before Nilesh wrote about it. But then again, he probably thought about it befor...
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Looking at Victor's attempt at plotting a timeline of blog posts (as opposed to the frequency distribution of blog posts across a day in MTBlogTimes), it seems very trivial to plot the timeline of your life using MT and SVG.
4 comments have been added. Add your comments.
1. Sachin Nair said...
Yea this would be interestng if we ever blog say, for a span of decades. Maybe our great grand children might learn history by following blog times .. hehe ..
btw, new blog up & running ... ahoy at sachinnair.com ( pardon the main index page..atleast for the time being) .. Update your kautilya links will ya .. its kautilya.sachinnair.com these days .. :)
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3. Gerald said...
I get a runtime error in JScript when I click at the timeline-sample. I use the IE6. What's wrong? The errortext: document.getElementById() is null or no object
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