Techy Trick of the Month- Add a favicon to Blogger

Techy Trick of the Month

As most of you all know, I like to play with computers, so I thought I would share this with you...if anyone cares. I think it's cool...

If you are familiar with the internet, you will notice a Favicon in the top-left corner of the address bar. Ever wonder how to make one of your own? Here's how to do it in Blogger.

1- Convert any picture or drawing, or symbol to an icon file. You can do this free HERE or HERE.
2- Download this icon to computer, then upload it to a place that can host your picture for free. The 2nd link above I believe will host your favicon for free. If not, then search google for Favicon Hosting.
3- Copy and past this code into your Blogger html code...

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="http://example.myfavatar.com/favicon.ico">

The important thing is that you post this right above the </head> tag toward the bottom your blogger HTML. Also update the http://link where your favicon is being hosted.
4- Whala!!! Save and test it and your favicon should work wonderfully for all to see.

*NOTE- for websites only, just upload your favicon to the folder of your webpage and then paste the first line of the code into your webpage.

This is what mine says...
<link href='http://www.scottandeileenmyers.com/favicon.ico' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/ico'/>

Holly is SO CUTE!!!

I just can't get enough of Holly...EXCEPT when it is very late at night and she just screams for NO REASON. Man, babies are work. I thought we could just live on Love and all would be well. I thought I could just hold my baby and she would calm down and sleep and smile and do what normal babies do! I thought I could tell holly to be quiet and she would. I thought if I told her to sit, she would sit! Hummphh

More Pics of Holly

I just HAD to post more pictures of our beautiful baby girl. Enjoy

Baby Holly has Arrived!!!

Happy Birthday to Baby Holly! We weren't quite expecting her to come today, but about 2:30am, Eileen woke me up and told me her water broke. So we rushed over to the hospital to be checked out. They did a few tests on her to prove that it really was amniotic fluid. All of the tests came back negative! But Eileen insisted that it was her water that broke. So they did some expensive test that is going to cost us like a thousand bucks! But it came back positive, meaning that it really WAS amniotic fluid. So they checked her in!

She wasn't even dilated hardly at all at this point, so they waited for a few hours to do anything...just to see what was going to happen. At 6:00 am, they came in and gave her some pill that goes up the birth place and sort of ripens the cervix for dilation. They told us that some women take 1-3 tablets to start dilating. It only took her 1 tablet and she was at a 2! I went home for a few hours to sleep since I was dead, and nothing was going to take place for quite a while. So she tried to relax and I slept.

About 10:30 am I came back and they had started her on the Petosin (or however you spell it). So I hung around for a while until about 12:00pm. I then went and studied over across the street from the hospital with a couple of my friends because UNFORTUNATELY, baby holly didn't listen to our little pep talks and came today instead of Friday Afternoon, like we had previously discussed! I have a big final I have to take on Friday morning. So I studied for a few hours. When I got back to the hospital, Eileen had a catheter and an epidural because of the pain. Luckily through her entire pregnancy, she was lucky enough to not feel the TRUE Contractions that really hurt until today. So she felt a few hours worth and she had it. So bring on the meds!

We just hung around until about 5:00, when the doctors came in. They got her into position and told her we are going to start pushing now. So she pushed and pushed and pushed! Come to find out, Baby Holly was coming out head first face UP instead of DOWN like she was supposed to. So she had a pretty rough labor, but to spare the graphic details, she was born at 5:53pm, she weighed 8 pounds 4 ounces, and was 20" long. She had a big head after her dad. I guess not any bigger than normal, but it was pretty big. We are very excited to be parents. I'm not sure what to think right at the moment. But Baby Holly is a good baby. Eileen nursed her after 2 seconds of trying. She latched right on with no problems at all. So we struck out with a good one! So there you go, there's the update. I just realized that I didn't get too many face pictures, so I'll take more and put them up later! Cheers! I'm a dad!!!

Pregnant Eileen

Eileen is 37 weeks pregnant now! Man, how time flies. I don't know where the time goes, but we're gonna be parents in a few weeks. I think Eileen is just about ready to have her body back and her bladder all to herself!

Doesn't she have a cute belly? This is the ONLY time I can tease her by calling her fat!

Ok, I think I have thoroughly embarrassed eileen enought. She is very cute!

Prop 8 and Politics

Man, This time of year really gets me riled up. When I was first married, I HATED POLITICS. I guess my wonderful wife has been rubbing off on me. I am now paying more attention to what's going on in the world. The latest thing I have been watching is Proposition 8 passing in California. I'm sure glad it did, but man the church has been dealing with a lot of backlash for promoting it so much. But I guess my opinion is that if the Prophet told us to support it, then he can see something that we can't and we should support it also. They don't call him a Prophet, Seer and Revelator for just being a title!
My Father-in Law is over living right outside San Fransisco and he was telling us that all the pro-gay people were picketing all weekend and it was so bad over there right now that he didn't go to church yesterday because of all the pickets around the temple and the churches there. There have even been people spray-painting and vandalizing the churches. I'm sure the Prophet saw this coming and he's still pretty confident in the world, so I wouldn't worry too much. We all know it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better, so just be prepared. I say a prayer for all!