Daily Twaddle

When are you online?

It depends. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are no good because I’m at work. Weekends are usually good, but only if Roch goes hunting. Monday is good because I spend the whole time in the office working on taxes, payroll and invoicing. Mornings are no good because I work out. Nights are no good. So, to summarize… I’m probably online during these times:
* Mid-day on weekdays (10am-3pm) excluding T & W

How do I get a picture of myself for comments?

That picture is called a Gravatar (or Avatar). The Daily Twaddle uses your email address to associate your unique icon with your comment. You’ll need an account with Gravatar.com which will allow you to use any image on your computer. Get started by leaving a comment below and checking the box that says “Sign me up for a free Gravatar!”

Where can I see more pictures of your events?

I’ve started using Google’s Picasa Web Albums to upload my personal pictures. I will include a link with each new post that has pictures associated with it. For now, the only album I have online is my Halloween 2007.

What’s new with you?

I went to a clogging class last night. I’m not sure if I like it or not. I’m in the middle of my first quarter of online school (with an A average so far). My dogs are shedding since they’re inside dogs they shed in the winter. I started up step-aerobics again. Roch started coaching his nephew’s basketball team. Right now I’m drinking a delicious chai tea sample that my boss gave me. It’s called cha cha chai - funny huh?

My gosh! I’m having too much fun on the computer lately. I stumbled across this totally awesome website that lets you build a South Park character.

My new gravatar has a princess leia hair-do, a martini and an umbrella. It was so fun to make. The only downside is that you have to take a screen shot to save the image. Which isn’t a problem for me since I planned on doing that anyway. Thank you Mac! (command + shift + 4)

Links to Avatar Builders

1. South Park Studio
2. Portrait Illustration Maker (thanks to Blimyk for the find)
3. Design Her Gals

Quite an extensive list, I know.

A gravatar is a small avatar image that appears beside your name when you comment on blogs. It uses your email address to associate your unique icon with your comment. Cool right?

All you do is sign up for a free Gravatar account and upload your graphic. Then, anywhere you leave (or already left) a comment, you’ll see your image!

Of course, it only works on Gravatar enabled sites. And The Twaddle is enabled! Hurray!

← Check out my gravatar! You’ll notice it next to each of my comments too. Righteous!

Tech Stuff

I went through a bit of trial and error when I first installed Gravatar on this blog. So, I’m going to give a quick tutorial for anyone who wants to install this on their blog too.

First I went to the Gravatar site for Word Press and downloaded the plugin. I followed the installation instructions. Then I went into my themes folder, found the comments.php file and stuck this code

<img src="<?php gravatar("R", 40); ?>" alt="" />

next to the commenter’s name div. I messed around with inserting this code in the right spot until the gravatar rested neatly at the left. That’s it!