I have just been having a play with my website, attempting to create a favicon.ico (i.e. a customised icon that will appear next to my url in the browser’s address bar). After testing it in my usual browser, Firefox, and finding it not working I had a look with Internet Explorer to see if this recognised my icon.
The result was “hooray” IE did recognise it but disaster – my latest post embedding a youtube video of my goanna stalking has a big blank patch where the video should be.
Oh crikey, I really don’t know what I am going to do about this. When it comes to techie stuff I am a complete blagger, I am playing around with things I really don’t understand here and know nothing about programming. It probably doesn’t help that my theme for my blog was bodged in the first place. Maybe I just need to start afresh with a new theme that is nice and clean and enlist the help of my very dear friend the blog fairy (aka Chris M), when he is back from his birthday trip to Amsterdam of course… in fact make that a good while after his return from Amsterdam to ensure full recovery 
Anyway, short term answer to the video problem is – I will post a link to my video on youtube in addition to the embedding for those that insist on using IE. For those of you open to change, for a better brighter future, download Firefox here and use instead!
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Hmmm, you all might want to ignore the above post. When I tested things at home Firefox updated with the favicon fine and the embedded youtube video worked perfectly in explorer.
The problems still persist on my computer at work but I can only assume this is something to do with computer itself for some bizarre reason.
If anyone has any other suggestions I will gladly accept any advice offered.
Random – a few days ago Firefox, on my computer at work, suddenly decided to update itself with my favourites icon. How long has that taken? I swear that no matter how logical computers are supposed to be, they are in fact always in control and occasionally like to demonstrate the fact!