i’ve been using bonqlinks for awhile on the main index of bonq.net as a primary list of bookmarks. through the use of a simple redirect.php (which scoop@freshmeat originally helped me with </namedrop>) i was able to update a database and keep track of how many times i’ve clicked on a certain link.

this is just another example of how i’ve tried to re-invent the wheel though, it was fun going out and grabbing various site’s favicons but when it’s said and done i started to rely on bonq.net being up and available in order for me to access all my favorite sites.

i guess it’s time to re-look at wordpress’s blogroll functionality. maybe i can write a plugin that will either grab a favicon image and save it locally to a wordpress install or create a repository of favicon images.

here’s a full list of the current bonqlinks dump

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i just went through and limited the output of bonqlinks. right now it’s limited to the top 36 links. i’d like to add something that would allow it to expand and show all of the bonqlinks. i also think i need a better rating system than just the number of times a link has been clicked on.

for awhile each time bonq would get crawled the spiders would follow the favicons thus giving them a click. heh, oops. rel=”nofollow” in the <a href was a simple fix to get a more accurate number of each time a person clicked on a link.

i guess it’s about time i got back into playing around with code vs finding quick widgets to use.

i actually got around to writing the favicon linklist [ previous ]. it automatically orders the favicons based on the number of clicks each one has received. what’s really annoying is that there are lots of sites out there that haven’t gotten around to creating favicon.icos yet. i’ve had to make a couple of favicons for the listed sites, maybe i should email the favicon.ico to them so they could use it. knowing my luck, i’ll get hit with a cease and desist letter because of copyright/trademark infringement or something.