Author: Olly

Many people today noticed that internet giants Google changed their Favicon from the familiar big G with a square round it, to a simpler lower case g with no border.

I scoured the internet looking for a reason why they changed it, but only found other people with the same questions as me.

Many people talk of a rebranding? but surely that would be a dumb idea due to how wel know the google logo and simpple layout/colourscheme is?

But i have my own theory behind the most talked about favicon in the world.

In the last few months i have been using Firefox 3, and they have made quite a few changes to the layout of the browser window, more specifically the way it displays favicons.

They are displayed on a grey background instead of a white one, and you can now see if the favicon is transparent or not. Googles old favicon is in a square, and wasnt (as far as im aware) transparent, so would of looked like this Blogger favicon;

This is square, boring, and doesnt really look much different from before. This is the new google favicon;

This new favicon shows off the cool white glow type thing you get when your favicon is transparent. Google would of missed out on the cool glowey shit, so in order to keep up with the times, they have updated it, and dropped the gay border so you can see the glow round the g.

But as my friend DJB quite rightly pointed out, they are suppsed to be the BIG G – maybe now they wanna be known as the little g – as written by Philipp Lenssen who pointed out that one of googles core values is to think and act like the underdog.

I guess they will officially let us know soon enough.. Maybe its just some new employee who decided to change it for the shits and grins. I wonder how much bandwith in total – across the world -this new favicon has sucked?

Wow.

I dont know what it is, but whenever my blood is at boiling point, i take it out on my poor blog. I guess its better than shouting at my business parter, or worse, my fiancé. Its not their fault i woke up in the worst mood ever, so its not fair to take it out on them either.

I was woken by Gem this morning at about half past 7 telling me that the dog had poo’d in her bed again. Last night, she wee’d on the floor. Its the 2nd time shes ever poo’d in her bed, and its probably only the 5th time in her life she has wee’d on the floor.

Whats causing my dogs random bladder outbursts?

Its the fucking dog next door. It has to be! Either that or their fucking cats. Ever since they have moved in and their tribe of animals have been shitting and pissing on my garden, bonnie has been different. She was good as gold before, the best dog in the world. And now in the space of 24 hours she has done two things that you’d expect from a puppy, things she grew out of a long time ago.

I figure its the fact the back garden doesn’t smell like her any more? She is a bit funny about where she wee’s and poo’s really, usually only on grass etc.

Hosing down dog shit at half 7 am is not something i enjoy being woken up for.

I guess im also pretty mad that i have had to get a part time job to help pay my bills. The businesses are going OK, but they are not moving fast enough for me. I don’t want to jack it all in – and i wont – but im fucking annoyed that i have had to go out and get something part time.

I want to write a lot of other things down right now, but i wont because i will probably look back in a few hours and regret it.

400th post anyway. Yay for me.

Meh.