I've often wondered what kind of file type the ico format is specifically. Here is a good overview on how to create a favicon.ico.
For my version of MovableType, I do not see the helper toolbar in FireFox. It must be treating it as a non-script compliant browser. I may have to upgrade, since I miss the html buttons, even being an HTML hack at heart. When I am in journaling mode, separated from the end web page, I don't feel like typing HTML.
I have been using the Wikipedia for about a year now as a first source when it comes to defining a topic. It is usually a reasonable approach to start with that reference to gain a frame of reference, then continue to a search using Google or Vivisimo.
I think that some of my comrades in Toastmasters hae been using it as well. One of the people involved in last week's meeting were quoting nearly the same definition for the word I had found in Wikipedia (the word was "serendipity").
Firefox is a nice browser, in that I can have my primary references (Wikipedia, Google, and Vivisimo) as address bar-level search engines simultaneously (via a nice dropdown).
I ran into this article on FUD by the old order today that gets into some of the specifics between the old order and the new, a battle that the old order would like to have thought was one with the fall of a few dot coms, but really still exists today.
I do believe in the power of great editors, but I also believe in the power of many enlightened individuals working to create an alternative. Not every 10 year old has parents that can afford a triple digit encyclopedia. Why not give them the basics and let them peruse the literature deeper for more interesting insights away from the bell curve mentioned in Robert McHenry's article?
I did go to the Alexander Hamilton diff log, You can see changes over 500 so far, that shows a lot of revisioning. But this revision in particular was to remove "graffiti". So it would seem like any other public item, it is possible that it will be subjective to crime.
The universe is a vastly complex system.
Coincidental, serendipitous events
are bound to occur, indeed they are to be expected to
be part of part of a pattern, part of a plan.
- Gaius Baltar
This is from an introduction I used a couple of weeks ago at Toastmasters:
There are some rituals that come from religion, but increasingly in the twentieth century there were a number of rituals and holidays invented by commercial interests. Prior to our wedding preparations, for instance, I did not know that the ritual of the unity candle at the wedding was not truely endorsed by our Church but was introduced by Hallmark. Similarly the idea that we should only be loving to our spouses on February 14 is probably contrived by the greeting card/flower/candy industries.
If we are to have these artificial holidays to make everyone spend more, what better industry than in software? Everyone could get their loved ones a hardware/software upgrade.
Tonight I am getting some homework done for a Financial Management class and I'm watching the new Battlestar Galactica Miniseries.
After the passengers on a transport hear about the Cylon attack, some of them are asking about other colonies not mentioned in the briefing, and one of the ladies clear asks, "What about Trevor?"