With an apartment in Buenos Aires for the past week, no job and a steady internet connection, I finally did some necessary updating to both the blog and the website itself.

Changes:

• Put in threaded comments.  This means I can finally respond directly to questions asked in comments, or other people can add on to someone else’s thoughts.  I think it looks nice.
• “Gravatar” (see below) support.  This lets people make icons if they like which show up next to their names in comments (rather than the bland silhouette icon)
• PICTURES.  I finally set it up so the link to images at the top of the page goes to actual images and not the horrible broken page it went to before.  It basically just links directly to my picasa photo storage site, then puts my theme (the colors, fonts, etc I use here on the site) on top of them.  I can create captions there as well, which should transfer right over.  The only down side to this is that photos from my pre-traveler days (from the 90s, even) are up there, which don’t exactly make sense in the context of this site.  But I’m not going to be moving everything around to fix this any time soon.

Gravatars

I don’t know if anyone would be intereted in doing this or not, but if you’d like your own personalized picture attached to your name in comments, go to Gravitar’s Webpage and upload a picture that they will globally associate with your email address.  In the future, any comments on any blog (mine included) with that email attached will automatically have your selected icon next to it.

It’s fairly quick, and they use a simple photo editing program for cropping whatever picture you upload to perfect specifications.

If there are other things you feel would make the site better, don’t hesitate to share them with me, unless you are Bernie.