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Sunday, March 04, 2007

favicon

What is a favicon? A favicon is the part highlighted in red



I was asked how it got the cross up there in the address bar and i'll just explain the process here so if you ever wanted to you also can.

Now you can make a favicon if you're creative or you can get one that is already made like me. If you want to try your hands on making a favicon there's a good tutorial here and here.

If you want to get one that already made then there are a lot of places to get them. Here, here, here, flags favicon, and i got mine here. Of course there are lots of other places you can find favicons, these are just a few.

How to add a favicon to your blogger
I'm assuming that you get the favicon online, some are saved as .gifs all you do is save the image to your computer and rename it with a .ico extension otherwise no need to rename it. Now comes where you will save the image so you can link to it.

Most photo hosting sites dont accept .ico images. I use photobucket and they dont, i'm not sure about the others but there's an easy way around this. If you have a yahoo id, just go to geocities.yahoo.com, login with your yahoo id, click on manage, and then open file manager. It should look something like this



Then click on upload files and add the .ico image to yahoo. You can see mine there.



Once the image is uploaded, click view and copy the link location. It should be something like this: http://www.geocities.com/YourUsername/TheFileName.ico. That link is very important so get it right.

Now open your blogger and go to edit html. Be careful here because you can alter the way your blog appears if you're not careful. Go to the section and add the link to the favicon. For example:


xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
<head>
<href="'http://www.geocities.com/YourUsername/TheFileName.ico'" rel="'shortcut" type="'image/x-icon'/">
<data="'blog'" name="'all-head-content'/">


Thats all there is to it. If you encounter any problems or have any questions or something you'll like to add just let me know :-)

~shalom~

Saturday, March 03, 2007

6 weird things

So i've been tagged by isaac and i'm suppose to say 6 weird things i do, and then tag 6 other people so here it goes

  1. I dont throw away reload cards, i always keep them. Right now i have quite a stalk and its growing. I'm not sure why i do this but i guess for posterity sake, and also i like to see the different card designs digi comes up with each time. And to be honest, the calendar is useful but uninspiring.
  2. I used to be able to sense what people are feeling, it happens like this, someone would pass by me and something in them would just get my attention and i get a word, or a sentence about them. I guess its not weird per se but i'm putting it here because its uncommon.
  3. This one doesnt happen to be anymore but there was a time i could know when i was about to get a call or sms. There's no warning or blinking lights but somehow i just pick up my phone and there a message will come.
  4. I have cetain dreams that repeat themselves. Some are like movies that i can pause rewind and play from any point. Its so weird, usually they're dreams of survival and i guess its doesnt end until i win and i dont always win in the movie, sorry dream.
  5. I sneeze just a few minutes after i wake up each time. Its so strange, i dont know when it started but if you notice i always have tissue in my pocket for emergencies.
  6. Finally, this is not suppose to be weird but i enjoy old movies, those black and white ones. I put it here because when i share this with my friends they're like why? So i guess its ok to add it here lo.
And so now i tag the following:
Gracie, Joshua, Jasmine, Yan hui, and kimberly

~shalom~

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

meeting the parents

I never really watched the movie but i did something i have been planning on doing for a while now, and thats to visit eilyn's house. I've never been invited before but chinese new year is the best time to do these things so i went today.

Good clothes give me confidence. So wore something comfortable and confident, called a taxi and stan, and we headed off. Mom and dad were washing so we just went inside and sat down, waiting for the go signal before we started devouring all the 'food' in front of us.

I just love the square beef thing, dunno what its called but i could eat those forever. And of course there was some home-made pastries, and all the usual.

I was expecting someone to come and tell me, you keep off my daughter or else, and then show me a knife or something. Blame it on my crazy imagination. Movies are evil, they mess with your mind which is why the reality was somewhat disappointing.

Mom and dad just asked me some generic questions, what are you studying, how long do you have? What next after that? You come from Nigeria? That one is a classic, i cant count how many times i've been asked that. Apperently some people dont know Africa is a continent like Asia or Europe, they think its a country. Well AFRICA is NOT a COUNTRY, and Nigeria is a country in Africa just like Indonesia is a country in Asia. I'm sure alot of people know that and i'm just being insensitive.

So anyway dad {her dad} took us back, we got off at inti and that was how it ended. I never expected that. I expected some hostility and disagreement but i guess no one can make straight what God as made crooked and vice versa.

This year i wanted to take more risks and make mistakes and like i said in my new year post this is the year of responsibility and its starting to happen. I just pray i would meet up to the trust people have in me because quite frankly i'm nothing.

~shalom~

Saturday, February 17, 2007

the duty

I first saw this flash animation when we went for the condensed world missions course at Goodnews way back in 2004, i'm sure che chung and feli would remember it. I was just going through some old bookmarks and found it. Its very special, never fails to break your heart everytime and i would like to share it here.



Larger version here

~shalom~

Monday, February 12, 2007

cny 2007

CNY 2007 is looking up, so far i think its going to be specially memorable this year granted some of my friends are no more here, moving on with their lives and probably most significant is my visit to eilyn's home.

I dont know what to expect even after she's told me what to expect i still am quite nervous. I know its the right thing to do and i've been wanting to do this for some time now but CNY seems to be the perfect time for me, i think. Pray for me...please :)

Someone called me an Introvert and even though she's correct; i tend to keep things to myself and hardly share with anyone but i've been thinking about it since then and basically my dilemma is this; introvert is what i am, i can't change that {or can i? should i?}. My biggest concern is when it gets in the way of reaching out and being used by God to touch someone's life. If its a hinderance than i might have to re-think if i want to continue like this or change.

But then in changing, what do i become? More like someone i'm not familiar with or have bits of myself with a different approach to things. Its just tricky for me i think. Yet have i really changed from who I used to be?

My sister called me saying she can't believe i could go on stage and act a drama, and true i wouldnt do that under normal circumstances, and my family know that more than anyone else but i dont know if its growing up or God changing things in me but i find i can do that {i mean act abit la}.

So if anyone is reading this i'll like to ask is my personality a hinderance to you? Be honest. :)