I’m generally very spartan when it comes to my browsing habits. I surf without Java or Javascript, turn off cookie-support unless I absolutely need them, filter out Flash objects … if it’s not strictly necessary for navigation, I turn it off.

I developed this habit back when I was surfing on a dial-up connection. I was paying for internet access by the second so speed was of the essence. Anything that bogged me down was out.

One of the things I usually disable whenever I install a browser on my system is favicons. These are icons that show up on the address bar or the bookmarks of a browser. They’re usually less than 1KB in size so they weren’t exactly system-hoggers but again, if I don’t need it, I don’t want it.

Thus, the sites I maintain did not have favicons. If I didn’t feel they were necessary, why should I foist them on others?

Still, some folks may actually like those icons and I will admit there are some cool examples to be found.

I was also tired of seeing 404s because visitors couldn’t find my site’s icon when they bookmarked the site.

So, I decided to try creating a favicon for fanmode.net.
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I really like the idea of having microposts that are one or two sentences in length as they would be a neat way of sharing links or making announcements about the site. I was looking for a way to incorporate microposts in a WordPress blog and discovered there are a couple of different approaches available.

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