Just one of those useless little things on sites, but I wanted to have my own favicon, which is the little picture that displays right next to the URL in the address bar. I used to have one, waaaaay back in the day, which is sort of a funny story:

I found this little red maple leaf image that I liked, but it wasn’t a favicon. I was using my Windows machine a lot during that time, and so I opened up MS Paint, imported the image, and then saved it in *.ICO format, which is necessary. During that process, MS Paint reduced the colours in the image to 16, which effectively turned my innocent-looking red maple leaf into something that resembled a marijuana leaf. I found this hilarious, and installed that on my site. However, a few years later, during a crash which resulted in the hard drive in my old FreeBSD box melting, I lost the image, and the site. Turned out to be a good thing as I wasn’t happy with the site, and hardly updated it. I was also using PostNuke, which at the time was a pain the ass to maintain and update.

Anyway, this one wasn’t that difficult to create as all I had to do was take a snapshot of myself, crop it, resize it to 16×16 pixels, and then used “convert” to change the image format from PNG to ICO. Then, placed the file within my theme directory, and voila! Searching for instructions on the ‘net resulted in all these shareware applications that would convert the image for you… blah blah blah. It’s amazing how many programs are out there that you have to pay for to do the most simple things if you’re too lazy to look up how to do the task yourself. I’m not paying for a one-time process… that’s idiotic.

So. There we have it. Yet another mugshot of myself on my site. Exciting, eh? 

Haha…

There is good news and bad news for President George W. Bush as he pursues his valedictory tour of Europe this week, according to a new worldwide study by the Pew Global Attitudes Project.

On the one hand, the image of the United States has improved slightly in many countries over the past year. On the other, the new optimism appears to be driven largely by the fact that Bush will soon be leaving office.

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Personally, I really REALLY hope that Obama is elected. Not only would having a black President be a great thing to help end the continuing racial issues we’re always hearing about on the news, but the last thing the world needs right now is another four year stint with the Republicans in charge. Best to have the Democrats in power so they can clean up the mess left behind by the Bush administration before the Republicans can fuck things up further.

Come on America! Be smart! Vote Democrat!

Breakfast

• Protein shake
  • 1.5 scoops of Weider 90% Protein Soy - chocolate
  • One banana
  • 250ml 1% skim lactose-free milk
  • Mix of frozen strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries

Lunch

• I Love Sushi
  • Assorted sushi (eight pieces of sushi, a six piece spicy tuna roll, one California hand roll)
  • Kimlan soy sauce
  • Miso soup

• Bangkok Paradise
  • Two Thai spring rolls - seafood
  • Sweet tamarind sauce

Snacks

• One Pep

Dinner

• Harvey’s
  • Double original bacon cheeseburger with ketchup, mustard, relish, onions, pickles, and mayo
  • Small fries with salt and ketchup
  • Fountain Pepsi

Snacks

• Three glasses of Tropicana orange juice - no pulp
• One Pep