Bwa ha ha, the explanation inside of the link funball posted showed that they used to link to the *****ed site.
The stars mean that the site is now blocked (which happened b/c they were having virus problems).
Last time myvacationcountdown went down, I just switched to the Dis ticker.... Then it came back up and I got a new mvc ticker, which is why I have two.
Kylie, I see the mickeypath "nametag" ticker (which I adore), but also the wrong code for a myvacationcountdown ticker, which makes it just appear in words and symbols. You are using the "HTML" code, but for message boards aka "BulletinBoards" you have to use the "PseudoHTML, UBBCode or BBCode". I remember it b/c of that BBCode bit, BB, bulletin board....
If you want it, take the 2 spaces (one before the = and one between img and ] out of the following and plop the whole thing in your signature spot along with the mickeypath ('cuz I like 'em both lol):
[url =http://www.myvacationcountdown.com/"][img ]http://www.myvacationcountdown.com/tickers/iu5e3w5pbhsvez4d.png[/img][/url]