jQuery(document).ready(function() {    
                                
     jQuery("ACRONYM.blog_published").each(
	 function()
		{
			var theStartingDate = jQuery(this).attr("title");                
			//get orig. date()
			var tmp = theStartingDate.split("/");
                 
			var myMonth = tmp[0];
			var monthNames = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"];
			myMonth = monthNames[(parseInt(myMonth) - 1)];
			var myDay = tmp[1];
                 
			var myYear = tmp[2];                                
            myYear = myYear.split(" ");                 
            myYear = myYear[0];          
                             
			jQuery(this).append("<span class=\"blog_pub-month\"><span>" + myMonth + "</span></span><span  class=\"blog_pub-date\"><span>" + myDay + "</span></span><span  class=\"blog_pub-year\"><span>" + myYear + "</span></span>"); 
		});      		
		
		jQuery(".commentCount").each(
			function()
			{
				var hrefContents = jQuery(this).children("a").text();
				//split this value down to just the number itself.
				var tmpConts = hrefContents.split("(");
				tmpConts = tmpConts[1];
				tmpConts = tmpConts.split(")");
				tmpConts = tmpConts[0];
				//end split				
				//alert(tmpConts);
				jQuery(this).children("a").text(tmpConts);				
			}
		)
		jQuery(".permalink").each(
			function()
			{
				var tmpConts = "<img src=\"/images/link_16x16.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"permalink\" />";
				jQuery(this).children("a").html(tmpConts);	
			});
			
		
		
});