Yesterday my girlfriend was over and i let her use the PC(this was the first and last time) while i made some popcorn. When i got the popcorn done i came back and we watched a movie and went out for a walk. Yesterday i didn’t start yahoo messenger because i got home late and after a shower i went to bed.

This morning when i started up YM i noticed that emoticons are not showing up, i checked every setting in YM but everything seemed fine, eventually i decided to turn off emoticons because its better to see the mark rather than a square with a red dot in it.

A friend asked me to check a website in IE6 and when i started it up i noticed that it’s not loading any images, i went to Internet explorer settings and noticed that the Show pictures box was unticked, i ticked it, refreshed the page and the images showed up. I checked YM and what do you know, a miracle happened, the emoticons showed up.

I would have never taught that YM is in a such close “relationship” with IE, i knew that the messenger insider uses IE, but i never knew that the instant messaging(the chat) itself is linked with IE also.

Check out my conversation with Tim:

slayer: brb
slayer: i got to reinstall
slayer: YM
slayer: smilies not showing up
slayer: >.<
Tim: ok
slayer: stupid
slayer: emoticons
slayer: still not showin up
slayer: >.<
Tim: lol
Tim: weird
slayer: f**k it
slayer: blah
Tim: lol
slayer: i disabled emoticons
slayer: same shit
slayer: if i see the text
slayer: or emoticon
Tim: lol, ok