Emoticons part 2

In my Xanga Blog, I left a message about the use of Smileys (and I'm still trying to workk out of to do the same on these blogs). On Xanga , when you construct an entry, there are about a half-dozen smileys you can add to that entry. But there are many more icons out there.

I would like to thank loopdeloup and marion for their kind responses (thanks for the codes for the icons by the way) about my Xanga and emotiocons question - it was most revealing. Will Xanaga be allowing us to extend our range a little in the future ?


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The main reason for the question was that other sites I have used have a larger range of emoticons (even my own bulletin board, c/o php.com, has access to a fair range of emoticons), and , although I don't use them to a large extent, there are sometimes when, to emphasis a point, an range of emoticon's would be very useful .

However don't do what I did this A.M.


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Hotbar - it puts its program everywhere - and without asking

In an attempt to add a few extra smileys and the like, I saw an advert on a web site along the lines of "Do you want to add extra -----" you know the sort of things. Anyway , as it as , on the face of it, an addition to your e-mails, I pressed the OK button. The Install dialogue came up, and I never notice it mentioned Hotbar. I've tried hotbar before and its OK but since I never really used it - I uninstalled it. Anyway back to the story. The program installed itself. I started up Outlook and there was the Hotbar menu - again it was OK. I never though anymore of it until I opened one of my document folders - there was hotbar installing its self into my ordinary folders. I fired up IE6 - there it was again. Hotbar has installed its self everywhere. I wouldn't mind - but I never agreed to anything other than installing in Outlook. I've left things as they are for now - but anyone else out there beware, be sure you want Hotbar to install its self into everything - moan over!!!


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Now I know why I hate Decorating

Don't get me wrong - I don't really dislike decorating per-say. I prefer the actual act of putting the paper and paint on the wall - it's the art of picking and shopping for your "bits and pieces" that I really hate.

"do you like this?" - " that's nice!" - "you can not be serious", and that's before we get to the wallpaper.

Normally my self and Cathy have slightly different view on what we want to do. This, as it turns out is not such a bad thing as, when we do come across something we both like it usually works quite well - but it usually after as series of that wall paper is a slight shade to dark,that paper is a shade too light, that one won't go with the Hamster.

But today! - today was something out-of-the-ordinary.

The story is this. We are having a new built in wardrobe fitted soon and as such the bedroom has to be re-decorated ( that fact that , given half a chance, it should have been decorated several years ago is yet another story). First store we went into was a dead loss . The next in line was actually the carpet store. Not only did we agree on one shade of carpet - but three, and we were able to pick one to purchase. The next was to visit a local, small, decoratoring suppliers - you know the one - this is were the local decorators go for their "bits and pieces". We had to look through several pattern books without success - but then it happened again - we both picked a set of papers that went with carpet.

Is that scary or what - LOL