Unknown Dog

What is a favicon, you might ask? Favicons are those little pictures next to the URL in the web browser address bar. They also show up in one’s Bookmarks or Favorites list. Fav-icon- get it? Well these little wonders are only 16 pixels square, so slapping one together was fairly simple. Not bad for a quick job- though it does look something like a deer instead of a dog.

So I am reading this piece on [Hummer branded laptops] on CNET. And the article is talking about how this laptop can survive six seperate drops from a height of 30 inches, blah blah blah. The whole point being that it is rugged like the Hummer.

I got to thinking….
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I recently tried explaining [Wikipedia] to the lovely wife and some family members. While I am mostly enthusiastic about the idea, it was a hard sell to the rest of the family. The lovely wife even declared that it was a preposterous arrangement and that she had little interest in something that seemed as unreliable as a community authored and edited encylopedia.
I personally find it quite useful, though I have some internal reservations about taking it as an authoritative source. One of the things I like to do is drop by Wikipedia and check out the featured article of the day. Here’s one that really set me thinking:
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Acting on a Slashdot tip last night, I managed to connect to the Google Talk IM using [Gaim], an awesome Linux instant messaging client. Didn’t actually do anything with it, but it was neat to see it up and running.

This morning, Google Talk officially releases as a beta: [Google Talk]

What is going to make Google Talk better than the big boys like Yahoo or MSN?

UPDATE: I tried the voice chat with a co-worker and the voice quality was very good. I was particularly impressed on two counts:
1- I was listening to Thievery Corporation at the time, and my co-workers voice was perfectly audible and coherent while the music was playing.
2- I was speaking through a built-in microphone that my work laptop must have, and the sound quality was still pretty good. My co-worker and I even switched seats to hear how the other sounded, I thought the audio was pretty good on both ends of the conversation.

First things first, the link you might be looking for is here: [Helpful Google Search].

Unknown Dog turns 1 year old at the end of the month, and my last post was about the top posts in terms of traffic. A very low traffic blog to be sure- the top 5 posts gathered in total only a few thousand requests, the front page only around 15,000 hits.

For being a such an anonymous blog, Unknown Dog can crow about one thing: the top spot on Google!

I don’t know how it happened, and it definitely wasn’t that way a month or so ago. It might not even be that way right this now- check it out [here].

I didn’t realize it, but the end of the month marks Unknown Dog’s 1 year anniversary! Wow!

UD is a low traffic blog. That said, here were the top 5 posts from the last year in terms of hits, as reported by my webserver logs:

1. Oracle Decode
2. Tom’s Java App
3. ‘Wicked’ Book Review
4. Get Your War On
5. ODDIO Overplay

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