My Blogger Favicon

See the small image beside my URL address? That's a favicon. It's short for "favorites icon" and is used as a website icon. I wanted to put one on my blog earlier but only go the chance to do so today.

Some say that you have to convert the image to a .ico file in order to put it on your blog. But Web browsers today have eventually made it easier for us bloggers by making a .png and a .jpeg file to become a favicon as well.

Evidently, there are two ways to install a favicon on our blog. One is by converting an image into a .ico file and putting it in the root directory of the blog. Another way --- the easier way and the one I used --- is to put in an ordinary .png or .jpeg file, by putting this command on the head section of your blog's html:

link href="/path/image.png" rel="icon" type="image/png"

My favicon is temporary. I'm still looking for that one image for my blog. I wanted something like the card picture (second one on the right) but the details of the picture wouldn't be seen if the picture was resized to 16-25 pixels. My other candidates for my favicon is pretty much all about the Virgo sign. But I'm still looking, still looking...

Computer Down Again

Our computer is one of the most used appliances in our home (aside from the fridge, fans, tv, and DVD player). It was one of the main sources of entertainment for us --- my brother likes to download songs and play Diablo and Warcraft, my sister goes to Friendster and is currently addicted to Mahjongg Mystery, and I consider myself an average internet freak.

So it was obvious what would happen if the computer broke down. It would lead to reruns of DVDs, more news updates on TV, more soap operas, more sleeping, and more quiet days. These things happened for more than two weeks when our monitor broke down.

Now the computer is down again. I'm the one to blame... partly. I only wanted to install Adobe Photoshop on our computer and the file I downloaded ended up giving us a spyware.

> I curse the dude who uploaded the file! <

It sucked... big time. Still does, because I still can't get the spyware of the system. The antivirus can't erase it, and it seems like even Spybot can't either (guess it also got infected). Our screen is a bloody red with a bold warning to get some protection and some of our programs are lost somewhere in the system. A lot of our private files are also in danger.

There doesn't seem to be any choice now but to reformat the computer. I have been meaning to do this, but only after all downloads were done and I've made a copy of all the files. I guess my procrastination led to this unwelcomed "karma." Now there's no stopping it, and there's no chance of saving the files in the computer. It really sucks.

World of Soundtracks Indeed!

I was scourging the Web for music downloads of The Replacements soundtrack. It took me some time to find a source; I guess soundtracks of movies that weren't so popular are very hard to find.

Luckily, I found a blog that knew exactly what movie 'n music buffs like me wanted:

http://worldofsoundtrack.blogspot.com/

Just as its blog name says, the blog is full of soundtracks from small-time movies to the popular ones. I'm gonna be paying a lot of attention to this blog --- it's a gold mine for me. ^_^

How I Met Your Mother Websites

Here's a list of the the websites included in the hit TV comedy series How I Met Your Mother.

1. Ted Mosby is a Jerk!

If memory serves me right, this website was revealed in Season 3 Episode 14 (The Bracket). In this episode, someone was sabotaging Barney's attempts in picking up women. Barney had once introduced himself to one of his "exploits" as Ted Mosby, and this exploited woman ended up making a website on how Ted Mosby was such a jerk.

The site is a real crack-up. ^_^ There are pictures of Barney (aka fake Ted) in very painful circumstances and there's a copy of his "exit letter" aka Dear Resident letter. There's also a page dedicated to another fake Ted Mosby (the pornstar).

2. Ted Mosby is Not a Jerk!

This is in opposition to the first website. Different but oh so similar, these two. Haha!

3. Barney's Blog (of Awesomeness!)

Courtesy of CBS! It feels like awesome Barney is a real person when you read it.

4. Lily and Marshall Sell Their Stuff

Season 3 Episode 19: Everything Must Go

Lily and Marshall are having some financial troubles with their new apartment. One solution they had was to sell Lily's clothes. Lily didn't like it one bit... just watch the show.

Anyways, HIMYM decided to launch a charity auction based on the idea of Marshall and Lily selling their stuff. Proceeds from the auction goes to the Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. Maybe I'm wrong because I haven't read anything new about the auction, but maybe it already ended. I'm not sure.

For Just One Post

For just one blog post on my Wordpress blog, I sat and sweated out more than two hours in front of the computer... One post! Only one!

This is one thing I hate about posting at Wordpress. When you post pictures --- a lot of them --- you end up going back and forth in editing and refreshing the post.

I also had to scourge for good pictures from the Web. I had to check the sources of the pictures, too, to make sure that the pictures in my blog post won't just disappear when its source disappears. This is another thing that I hate about Wordpress blogs.

Oh well, after a lot of work (I've got droopy eyes; I'm tired!), I finally finished the post. I am featuring FHM's Top 10 Sexiest Women in the World. Guess who's on top of the list. It's none other than the foxy beauty pictured here: Megan Fox from Transformers.

Finally! This Blog Is In Action!

Frankly, creating this blog has been something short of a headache. It's all because of the template. When I saw this template at JackBook.com, I really wanted it to use for this new blog of mine. I thought it was going to be just a copy-paste routine, but it turned out to be a little more complicated than that.

Instead of the simple copy-paste task when changing your blogger template to that of a new one from an outside source (presently, this would most often only work with classic templates), it seems like I had to upload the .xml file of the template. Now that would have been fine with me, too. I mean this should be easy for me after spending almost two years in front of a computer. But there were other requirements in order for this template to be successfully displayed.

I don't blame JackBook.com for telling us to move the template images to our own Google Pages. The site is pretty neat and has a lot of subscribers that it is only normal for them to worry about their bandwidth. Moving the template images to our own folders would also ensure us that the template will still be up and there if ever JackBook.com closes that specific template down from their site.

Uploading the XML file and moving the template images to my Google Pages was fine. But I don't know what happened on my first tries. The layout turned out missing the header or lacking in images. It wasn't until I started all over again --- uploading and tinkering with the widget errors --- that I finally succeeded. Yes! Really.. it wasn't easy. It was my first time tinkering XML language. I found HTML and CSS far easier.