that’s a good idea; i will consider it when it sounds fun to revise mine further.
right now i am enjoying it working all by itself. :)

fwiw i think the tiny text on your cloud is too tiny.
i know not always what it says.
but i still like it!
yay clouds!

and wordpress stripped out what where?
i don’t even see it if i look at the original and try to fix it for you, but i am nearing a food coma, so my eyes are far from their sharpest.

function wp_tag_cloud($wpdb) {
// Grab category info from the database table wp_categories
$qrystr = “SELECT * from $wpdb->categories ORDER BY cat_name”;

$cats = $wpdb->get_results($qrystr);

//get total number of posts to use for normalizing
//the size of the category tags
$totalposts = $wpdb->get_var(”select count(*) from wp_posts where post_status = \”publish\”");

//read and write the category data
foreach ($cats as $cat)
{
$catname = $cat->cat_name;
$catlink = get_category_link($cat->cat_ID);
$postcnt = $cat->category_count;

if ($postcnt “;
echo strtolower($catname) . “   “;
}
}