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Back · Small talk · / 19 12 2004 - 01:28

After some time of inactivity, i found some time to post again. As my holliday is approaching, i have been so busy working 24/7 that i didn’t had the time to post something here.

On top of that the keyboard of my laptop crashed on me, so now i’m using an external one, which i “borrowed” from work. I use a Dell laptop, meaning i have to let the thing pick up by UPS and normally i would get it back in a week or so. But as x-mass and new year is arriving, that will probably be sometime in january, when i’m in Brasil for 2 months. So i decided to wait untill i’m back.

Meanwhile i’m preparing for my 2-months journey: new passport, international drivers’ licence,..... and clearing out my desk of all those “so urgent” files.

On the other hand, i just restarted on a new template to put up on my site, so i hope this week i’ll be all set to leave.

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Please do!!! · Small talk · / 1 12 2004 - 23:51

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Gravatar mania · Design · / 1 12 2004 - 23:16

It seems those gravatars, provided by gravatar.com are increasingly getting more and more popular. After installing my new guestbook, i decided to go along with the mass (not my usual thing to do) and implement them on my guestbook.

For those who don’t know what gravatars are: a gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is an 80×80 pixel image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. They help identify your posts.

But they are not only for weblogs. You can use them on any site, whether it be a weblog or not. Existing web forums, mailing list archives… can use gravatars.

The way it works is that the images are stored in a kind of dictionary and associated with your email address. Each time you leave a comment on a site and provide your email address, the site can use your email address to look up your avatar. Since the dictionary is available to anyone, a single image can represent you across many different sites. That is if they are gravatar enabled.

But one of the coolest things about the concept is that they are given ratings. Every image is manually given a rating of G, PG, R, or X . If you have submitted an avatar that contains nudity, it will be given an R rating. If you leave a comment on a kid-friendly weblog that has chosen to only show avatars with a G rating, your avatar will either not show up at all, or will be replaced with a default avatar of the weblog owner’s choosing.

I haven’t implemented them on my blog because i use Textpattern and in order to get avatars to work, i needed to hack Textpattern. Something i’m reluctant to do because of updates to Textpattern. But there are plugins for several popular blogs.

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