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I think it’s a good idea to regularly change your favicon to remind customers that you exist just a click away, for if they have their bookmarks displayed visibly as buttons  I do this, and one of my links on my Bookmarks Toolbar is Amazon.com, and I display it as an Icon only. Recently they changed their Favicon enough to draw my attention to it (It changed the appearance of the environment I look at every day) but not so much as to appear unfamiliar. Google has been doing this with their logo. The familiarity of the change added, I think, to their overal public image signature.  I think it might work because it links the icon (and thereby the business [like a pointer]) to both your present awareness, but also  in your memory, so your thinking about the icon (and thereby the business) from two different perspectives, using two different processes of your brain.

Come to think of it, Weather.com does something similar but with a diminished frequency- I think it might be that they change their banner and theme seasonally.  I can’t remember what they are now or what they’ve recently been though. This tells me that it’s likely that one can build an immunity to this tactic- still it can’t be the only trick in your bag. I think that you’ll reach a point where you filter things like that out of your comprehensive view.  Who knows-

What is my problem with linked lists?  I love them. They’re simple and ingeniously so. I understand them and I know how they work. I could write one from scratch. So why do I have this aversion to them (and for that matter arrays)?  It feels like laziness.  Somehow the idea of sitting down and writing one, despite the fact that it would completely be the simple, God given key to writing an interesting program, find myself irritated by the very idea of doing so?

Maybe it’s that I learned it using the word ‘Node’. Something about it puts me off. Kind of like how PHP uses dollar signs preceding variable names (or the really irritating fact that the dot operator is signified by a plus sign and the symbol for concatenation [generally indicated by a plus sign since concatenation can easily be seen as Adding Things Together] is a fucking dot.).  It irritates me- look at a page of PHP code and you’ll see- a bunch of dollar signs, question marks (particularly irritating) and angle brackets and leading double underscores

__who $wants.(’ to’) <?read> $that?

Irritating. So the word “Node” is like that to me. Maybe. Even the name “Linked Lists” puts me off.  I hate lists- they make me think of grocery lists and to-do lists and I hate those. I don’t use them, fail miserably, because of it and I’m fine with that.  I probably should address that too. What to call it though? Pointer Chain? At least it’s got chains. What to call a Node?  A Node I guess. I lose. A Pointer? How is it different than a neatly designed system  of organizing pointers? I guess I should get over my aversion to the term Linked LIst.  Maybe I should just start naming nodes “Pointer”.  PHP is still ugly though.

T.V. is so weird.