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Look to the left - there’s my Gravatar!

Yeah, I know, I’m an ugly f%^&!r. :-)

Does it work?

It sure does! :-)

But what if I’m logged in?!

I anticipated that! ;-)

When you registered a user account Gabriel, you submitted an email address. Thus, if you post a comment when you’re logged-in, the system will query your account details and retrieve your email address from there.

I had somehow managed to break the textarea for IE! This is now fixed.

Thanks to Mike Papageorge for pointing out the error.

You know guys, your gravatar doesn’t have to be a geeky-looking picture of yourself… ;)

your gravatar doesn’t have to be a geeky-looking picture of yourself

grin

You’re absolutely right Matthew. In my case, I deliberately chose to use a photo rather than an icon as I want visitors to see my friendly (!?!?!) face.

Take that back! You’re just jealous that we’re gorgeous! (and I say this with a perfect record of heterosexuality)

Those folks that are running the gravatar service sure must have a lot of bandwidth to waste. How can they survive without any revenue? Does anyone know what their business model is? Are they going to charge sites to use the gravatar functionality?

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Tom Werner (Gravatar’s creator) has 1TB / month bandwidth dedicated to the project, so there shouldn’t be any problems in the immediate future Scott.

I have been thinking about getting one of those TB/month servers. EV1servers seems to have some decent deals on them, especially if you are hosting mostly static content. It’s good to see people putting bandwidth like that to good use for the common good. :)

Having trouble coming up with an Avatar?

Try: Stor Troopers Avatar Creator (via)

I made a silly little avatar on the Stor Troopers site. Not bad, but it shows up a bit small once it’s shrunken down on blogs. I think it’s time to get out my camera. ;-)

… or, you could just crop the avatar …