Eventually I'll get around to writing the "long versions" of each pet's life story. Two down, seven to go! :) And to make things a little easier to follow on a daily basis, I've used Erik Bosrup's most excellent OverLIB JavaScript library to implement some cool little mouseover info boxes for each of the critters.
So now when you see the first occurence of a pet's name in an entry... for example, Oscar... you'll notice the dashed over- and underscore. That means if you mouse over it, you'll get an info box so you'll know a little bit about the pet I'm talking about.
Also added something just for my own convenience: Josh Cooper's smilie bar mod which adds clickable smilies to the Movable Type Edit Entry screen.
UPDATE 4/30/02: Look under MORE... for some info on using OverLIB if you or your audience will be viewing the pages with IE 6.
This NetMechanic Webmater Tip, HTML Tip: New Headaches with IE 6 gives the details, but the short version is that you may need to edit or remove the DTD line at the beginning of the document where you are using both CSS and OverLIB.
This was the case with dog:blog :: cat:chat ... when viewed in IE 5, IE 5.5, NS 4.7x and NS 6.x, all was well with the popups. But when viewed in IE 6 the popups disappeared off the page to the top. After I wasted a couple of hours on a wild goose chase suspecting the PHP random reads code I'd just added, I got smart and went to the OverLIB Yahoo! Group support message board where this question had been answered and archived some time ago :)
I opted to comment out the DTD line and now this page and its popups should look fine in all recent browsers.
Ooooo! I like the comments!
I have pretty much decided to redo my blog in MT now that I have moved my hosting to a company that doesn't suck! :)
Oh I love the pop-up boxes! :)