Might Corvallis become a wireless city? It looks like the city has a call for proposals. I think municipal wireless is cool, but I always wonder about bandwidth issues. What I really wonder if this wireless infrastructure might be sufficient to replace a per-house Internet connection.
Lisa and I were browsing around the Dollar Store and came upon yet-another-cooking-gadget. Seeing that I'm a sucker for gadgets--especially cheap motorized ones--I couldn't resist buying a motorized drink stirrer. Seems simple enough. Stick it in your drink, turn it on, wait, turn it off, take it out. Who needs directions!? Lisa, being more of the read-the-directions type, actually turned over the packaging and then started laughing. Go ahead, read the directions. I guess you can't expect perfection for $1.
I finally got sick of seeing a blank little icon in my URL bar every time I visit my own site (neumannhaus.com, you know, where you're at right now!) With a little gimp and a nice font, volia! a favicon was born. It was pretty easy to create. I worked with a 64x64 canvas and then scaled it down to 16x16 at the very end. It's nice that gimp allows you to save directly into the windows icon format, apparently it didn't used to.
One caveat, if you have more than one layer when you save the icon, they will each be stored as separate icons in one icon file. I was a bit confused for a minute when I was viewing my icon in Firefox and all I saw was white. Apparently the white "background" layer was saved as a "white" icon and the black "N" was saved as another icon--all inside one icon file. Firefox defaulted to the first icon it found--the white one!
So know you can ooh and awe at the big "N" in your URL bar.