by John Hoff
JNS blog readers, who are an attentive bunch and seem to spot little technical changes, may have noticed a new "favicon" today.
The "favicon" is a little symbol which pops up next to the URL when you type in the web address (URL) of this blog. Since 2008 when I started this blog, the favicon has been a simple orange Blogspot symbol, which is the default setting.
Recently, however, I figured out how to change the favicon and I started looking around for symbols. For a couple of days around Christmas, I used a different symbol. Then I found out the symbol was already in use by a major website, so I dropped it and found a standard and available "American flag" favicon. The change doesn't happen immediately and took a couple days to "stick."
The American flag stands for all kinds of things, but as a favicon on this blog it primarily stands for...
FREEDOM OF SPEECH. And the right to live quality lives free of daily fear, a right which the decent people in my neighborhood have to fight for every day with help from our police and public officials. But it was Thomas Jefferson who said...
