I’ve posted another track recorded by my old band, Ubiquitous Proprietors, called Where the Ceiling Meets the Floor. It may have been the last original we wrote, and was recorded about nine or ten years ago. It’s straight-up funk/rock, and is surely the song to listen to if you want to hear U.P.’s sound.
For me the song marks a sort-of milestone of where I was in life, reminding me of some extremely fun times, people, and places, all that I’ll never forget. It’s interesting how repeated listening to or playing music can capture memories from a time period.
Where the Ceiling Meets the Floor can be downloaded from the MP3 Goodness page.
Last week I used a Photoshop plugin to create a favicon.ico file for the Dirty Superb website. This was my first time making one, and it took me a while to get it looking right since I wanted the image to look decent at 16 x 16 pixels. I started with a 64 x 64 pixel image, and sharpened the edges before shrinking it (if you don’t sharpen the edges they can get lost or blurred when you shrink it). That didn’t work too well for me, so I settled for a simple two-color icon where sharpening wasn’t an issue.
Shortly after, I whipped up an icon for Ralford.net. When I had something that wasn’t horrible, I published it. A few days went by, and when I saw it next to the link on my Google Profile page, I thought it kind of looked like crap… so… I took it down. Today I checked out my Feedburner Subscriber count and saw it drastically went from a whopping 5 subscribers down to 1. Feedburner’s Subscribers chart showed me that this happened within a day or two of removing my favicon. Until I removed it, I’ve had a steady 4 to 5 “readers” (almost all of them bots) since creating this blog.
So I suppose the moral of the story is to not create a half-assed favicon the first time around. Get it right, publish it, and be satisfied. Though the Ralford.net favicon is still in the works, I’m rather happy with the first one I created. You can see it over at the Dirty Superb website.
