A little embarassed

When I said I needed a "better" photo, I was referring to the grain quality -- not my face! The head shot I'm presently using as my "About" photo has been cropped from a larger photo and looks grainy when posted at a width of 150 pixels. This is especially true on IE, which is what a lot of you use. On top of that, when the file size is reduced for use on the Web, the image comes out looking dark. Yet all of you seem to like it, so maybe I'll keep it the way it is.

A particularly annoying thing about Blogger, too, is that every so often they crawl into your HTML code to remove bits of personalized coding that you've added along the way, such as, in my case, a Robots META tag to prevent indexing. The unique spelling of my name means this site can be easily found by anyone who Googles me, and having a noindex, nofollow tag helps prevent that from happening.

Ideally, when the Secretary-General of the United Nations -- or anyone else I want to appear respectable to -- Googles me, I'd prefer that this website not be prominently displayed among the search results. But much to my chagrin, I discovered a few days ago that Blogger had stripped me of my noindex tag, causing aboutblogreader.blogspot.com to appear first on the Google list!

Seriously though, being Googled doesn't bother me. In fact, it's kind of nice. But since this website is (a) silly; (b) silly; and (c) frequented by the dubious likes of "The Tart", I am more than a little embarassed.