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So it took me a while, but I got it figured out. Yes. Those annoying little favicons. They work rather well on Safari and Firefox. Can't say I've had much luck with IE though.

Here are a couple of good resources if you want to make one for yourself.

• Creating favicons with Adobe Photoshop and GoLive: From the nice folks at golivein24.com, this is for the "do it yourself"er, who likes to make things from scratch. Turns out that the favicon is not really a gif, jpg, or png. It's a Windows Icon format and by default, Photoshop does not save to that graphic format. If you haven't already done so, you will need to download and install a PS plugin to save to this ico file format.
• FavIcon from Pics: From the nice folks at Chami.com, This little utility will take a graphic that you upload from your local computer, convert it into a 16x16 pixel favicon in the proper Windows Icon format and give your the opportunity to download the file (so you can then re-upload it up to your site). There is even a nifty favicon validator, which checks for the presence of your favicon file and favicon link. A handy tool indeed.

Today I added a little weather module to the sidebar of my blog. At first I tried the Get Weather plugin, but I could not get it working for the life of me. I could not even get the darn plugin to show up on the plugins page so that I could activate it. It's probably not the plugin. I probably just missed something. Anyway, I looked for another weather plugin and found another nice one called WeatherIcon 2.0. I like it. I'm keeping it.

Instead of staying where it's safe, I decided to jump into the pool today and look around for other themes for this blog. If anybody else is looking to do the same, I can recommend a couple of good sites to browse a ton of different designs, alexking.org: WordPress Theme Browser and WordPress Theme Viewer. By and large, they do the same thing and even appear to have the same list of themes. The alexking.org theme viewer has nice previous and next buttons in addition to the drop down list. Anyway, after viewing plenty theme examples, I settled on one called Connections. You can download this great theme at Vanilla Mist.

I couldn't leave well enough alone though. I swam out to the deep end and changed the main banner to something more me. I'll be tweaking other parts as time permits and as my inspiration fosters. Maybe someday I can throw together a theme that is all mine.

Even boys need a rag doll sometimes.

It's interactive. So have fun.

Pretty neat trick huh? Well for me it is anyway. I found a plugin called Kimili Flash Embed, that allows you to embed flash movies in your post.

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If this had been an actual emergency, the Attention Signal you just heard would have been followed by official information, news or instructions. This station serves the world wide web area. This concludes this test of the Emergency Broadcast System.

First, it was Sunday. No work. A day of rest, and yes... I vegged for much of it. Today was also my sister's birthday. Peg and I got her a ceiling fan, because we live in well... Las Vegas. It's fuggin' HOT here lately. We (the fam) all went out to Joe's Crab Shack for dinner. Had that 40 shrimp special for $12.95. That's good eats right there.

Came home and watched Office Space again, while Peggy went shopping with the girls. It's only one of the funniest movies of all time. Peggy came home with another fish today (another betta).

Cute lil fella, huh? We named him Sora, after the main character in the Kingdom Hearts video game. All of her bettas (6 in all) are named after either anime or video game characters.