Jquery Horizontal Timeline

Hey Guys,

I am trying to create a timeline that will eventually work to display Wordpress post titles and a link to the post. but at the moment I am just trying to figure out how to go about making the timeline.

I have found two great examples of timelines using css and js.

http://mattbango.com/notebook/web-de...#comment-47205
This is an awesome example of a timeline but is lacks the ability to interact with it as well as arrange items by date. currently items are pre positioned, I am wanting these to be dynamic and based on where in the time frame that post falls.

http://tutorialzine.com/2012/04/time...#comment-23898
This timeline has it all... In fact too much and unfortunately I can't seem to decipher what is doing what in the JS file, I can't strip out just the slider. I don't want the whole portolio, youtube, google spreadsheets functionality. I am just looking to grab post dates and display them on the timeline.

Sorry I know thats a big explanation but I felt I needed to give a bit of background.

Can anyone sugest how I can go about achieving this?