{"id":6883,"date":"2004-12-11T08:47:03","date_gmt":"2004-12-11T15:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/12\/11\/iconic-2.html"},"modified":"2004-12-11T08:47:03","modified_gmt":"2004-12-11T15:47:03","slug":"iconic_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/11\/iconic_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Iconic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"daveicon_9696.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/daveicon_9696.gif\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\"class=\"right\" \/> This is a very cool <a href=\"http:\/\/illustmaker.abi-station.com\/index_en.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">personal portrait-icon generator<\/a>.  It&#8217;s set up to create two different sizes of MSN Messenger icons, large (96&#215;96) and small (48&#215;48), and it has a pretty complete (if eccentric) set of customizations.<\/p>\n<p>Three warnings:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It&#8217;s Japanese.  Very Japanese. 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