This is news to me! In the last week (perhaps) or so, Google has changed their Uppercase "G" favicon to a lower-case "g" favicon.

A favicon is the icon that appears in your bookmarks, to the left of the web-address your a visiting, etc etc. You may notice the Green Circle Thing to the left of "http://profy.com/..." Go ahead, look, I won't mind.

Is this an attempt by Google to appear less corporate and more trendy? (I'm looking at YOU Apple) I have only found the icon to appear on the mini-apps by Google. This includes Gmail, Maps, News, Images, Reader and so on.

Why CBC, Why?

For those who don't know, a "Timbit" is a small egg-sized doughnut that, usually, mimicks the flavours of their larger ring-shaped counterparts. They are referred to as "Timbits" when they a from the coffee-shop super-chain known as "Tim Horton's".

How much does one (1) timbit cost these days? Normally about 15 Canadian cents. But, in London, Ontario, it cost 27 year old Nicole Lilliman, an employee at Tim Horton's, her job.

As the story is told, a child had become fussy in the store and Nicole gave them one free timbit. The managers found out about this by watching the taped security footage and fired Nicole because she went against store policy. Before any of my personal comments, you'll be happy to know that Nicole has since been rehired and relocated due to "poor judgment" of her previous managers.

In My Opinion
Are people getting that greedy? Is it store policy to be a jerkface? Sure she has been rehired, but I can only see that as being a result of bad publicity and negative media coverage. If this didn't get out into public eye, this lady would be out of a job because of 15 cents.

It was very possible that the managers could have turned a blind eye on this and write-off the penny (if that) worth of dough and sugar to keep a happy customer. Let's face it, one Timbit does NOT cost 15 cents to make.

A message to those managers: What do you give out at Halloween? A lump of coal is probably too much for you to just hand out for free, right?

Read the CBC News.ca article here: http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/05/08/timbit-lilliman.html

One of the recent non-internet and non-homicidal news story that keeps coming up in my usual medium scoutings is the news of "toxic" materials in plastic bottles. Plastic number 7. You can find that number on the bottom of most plastic bottles.

*waits while you check your water bottle's bottom*

See? How creepy is that?

Anyhow, chances are high that your refillable clear water bottle is a number 7 regardless if it is a Nalgene or not. In fact, even baby bottles are affected by this. One of the materials to make number 7 plastic is "Bisphenol A" or BPA. BPA has been found to negatively affect your health. source

There are plenty of 'healthy' alternatives. Glass and stainless steel. If you still fancy plastic, you can always go with a not-so-cool-as-clear unclear plastic. These plastics should have a number other than 7.

Yes, Nalgene does have bottles that don't contain BPA.

After listing to a brief sessions of CBC Radio One's Ontario Today, I learned of the up-and-coming plan of Canada's monopolistic jerks super-telecommunications networks, Rogers and Bell, to start charging Internet users higher rates if they exceed a certain bandwidth. On top of this, they already have an undocumented cap (or maximum) per month. Readers of the Globe and Mail may have seen this article a few days ago that outline the changes. What interested me was the table at the bottom sporting a new price guide:

Paying for speed Rogers' usage fees and speed according to service level:

Service level	Regular monthly Subscriber rate	Download speed	Usage allowance	Additional usage charge
Extreme Plus	$99.95	18 Mbps*	95 GB**	$1.25/GB
Extreme	$54.95	10 Mbps	95 GB	$1.50/GB
Express	$44.95	7 Mbps	60 GB	$2.00/GB
Lite	$34.95	1 Mbps	25 GB	$2.50/GB
Ultra-Lite	$24.95	500 Kbps	2 GB	$5.00/GB

*Megabits per second **Gigabytes SOURCE: THOMSON DATASTREAM

To put things into perspective: 2 GBs a month is roughly 2.8 downloaded movies AND NOTHING ELSE. Do you rent movies online from NetFlix or even Xbox Live? Now, I'm not big city lawyer, but it seems to me that there are two main companies wanting to cash in on Internet trend. In other words, "Price Gouging or Profiteering"

As a result, questions are being raised about whether Canada's major service providers are prepared to handle the future of the Internet as bandwidth-gobbling activities such as downloadable videos and file-sharing go mainstream. The exploding popularity of online video is causing headaches for ISPs. Much of that traffic is facilitated through peer-to-peer networks. SOURCE: Globe and Mail

The world is into downloading massive amounts of data for entertainment, information or otherwise. And yes, "YouTube" is considered bandwidth use because even if you are "streaming it", it is still a bunch of 1s and 0s running through the tubes. Rogers and Bell want a larger cut. All is fair in the corporate world. It looks like the Internet Service Providers are taking a note from Canada's Long Distance Plan Providers. Oh wait, same jerks companies, my bad. At least we don't see price gouging in the oil industry. Those guys are class acts.

Oh, hello there Mr. Polar Jetstream. Why are you feeling so down? What's that? You want to freeze North America? Thanks... we appreciate that. Please cheer up soon.

I can't remember the last time I've seen the Jetstream curve down that low. Because of this, of course, there are massive waves of the chills.

Some people may not have experienced the dead of winter before and, after only seeing a few newscasts, I can see most are not prepared.

It's all about layers.

Normally I hate it when people layer because I find most people cannot pull-it-off and end up looking like a fad follower... but in this case, of potentially life or death, I'll let it slide. Stay indoors as much as possible. If you must venture the freezing terrain:

• Wear a hat or hood or cover your head. Long hair and ear muffs aren't going to cut it, miss.
• Wear a couple shirts under your sweater.
• Wear thicker tights or even "Long Johns".
• Wear something that is going to block that harsh wind.
• Wear boots (WITHOUT FANCY HEELS).
• Cover your face with a scarf, neck warmer, balaclava, etc etc.

What I usually find is that people want to look good in these situations. It's okay, it's cold out. All of you beautiful people can have a few days off. Stay warm!

For some strange reason, I keep calling it "Profly".

Anyhow, just a few things that I'd like to bring up that hopefully someone will read...

1. When typing in the WYSIWYG editor then switching to code view, via the HTML button, it is very messy.  There are no line breakss
   

   Why don't you just type in code then???
   

   Uhh, because the WYSIWYG is set to default and a button is, usually, faster than typing in <pwqijefpoeijf>whatever</pwqijefpoeijf>
2. Leaving the site while writing a new post by accidentally pressing the back/forward/bookmark/home/anybutton key completely gets rid of post.
   

   Why don't you just Save as draft
   

   Well, you see (presses Save as draft)... it takes you OUT of the post.  And don't even tell me about the Save button... a.k.a. PUBLISH.

I guess that is the nature of the program.  May I suggest a quick-save that doesn't take you out of the post?

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So this is Profy eh?

Here's hoping this takes off and gains a substantial market share!

The user interface is quite familiar, though -- much like Google.  I'm not saying that is a bad thing. That makes it easy to know where things are.

Hello, world!