Variation on the theme of WTF?

So I got bored and made myself a new default icon, on the same theme I always use. This time it's a PNG image, with a proper transparency channel. The kind that MSIE refuses to handle, so you out there who insist on running that won't see it like it should be.

Anyway, it occured to me that I now actually have a machine that can run MSIE: the iBook. So I decided to start it up and have a look to see how much it sucks -- only it turns out that MSIE5 for Mac can handle PNGs with alpha channels. Correctly, as far as I can tell without looking at a torture test page.

So I still don't know what that icon looks like for you MSIE/Windows users.

EDIT: For the IE (and apparently some Opera) users, here's a capture of what it looks like in a browser that gets it right. Note how the shadow works on different background colours.

NaNoProblems

Problem one: My brain is getting tired. It's pretty damn obvious that I'm not nearly in as good a shape as I was last year. I'll make 50k, but it'll be a bit of a struggle. Actually, I should probably try to take it slow to avoid overexerting myself.

Problem two: The story isn't really working out. As I think I said near the beginning, I had planned to have three main plotlines, but two of them got brutally axed in an attempt to keep the story even close to 50k. Unfortunately it turns out that those plotlines were necessary for the thing to make sense and have a decent ending (not to mention that some characters now have no reason to exist). So now I'm trying to make up mind if I should take it to 50k and then simply stop, or if I should try to bring it to some kind of cliffhanger-like end. Or maybe go Hamlet on their asses and kill everybody off.

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