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Blog Entry: That Stupid Icon
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Blog Entry: That Stupid Icon
2005 September 24, 11:44 PM
If you've ever bookmarked one of my pages, and your browser supports
the "favicon" feature (most browsers do), you've probably wondered
what that strange icon you see next to my pages is (some browsers will
show this even if you don't bookmark any of my pages). It's really too
small to see (here's a full-size
version), but it's a cartoonish representation (or "avatar" if you
prefer) of me, created by a program used to access the long-defunct
Sierra Network (TSN for "The Sierra Network", an AOL-like dialup
service that was popular before the Internet was widely used). The
avatar was created in the early 90s. Since I no longer wear glasses (I
had LASIK about a year and a half ago), wear my hair much shorter
these days (the "skinhead" look), have pastier skin, and never
smile, I guess it's more a representation of who I used to be (ah,
forgotten youth!). And, yes, while we're at it, that picture on my homepage is even older (late
80s). Why don't I put up a more recent picture? Hey, if I looked
that bad back then, imagine how I look now (or, better still, don't).
