Gravatar is a service that links your e-mail address
with an avatar icon of your choosing. It has been gravely ill for
many months, but it was supposed to be back, so I decided to give it a
spin on the weekend. Oddly, www.gravatar.com has an ugly redirect to
site.gravatar.com where I’m presented with a bit of introduction and a
sign up form. The site was terribly slow on Sunday afternoon, so I postponed
until the next day. I shouldn’t have; this is the result.
The bit about
being temporarily unavailable is not quite accurate though, but the
maintainer did apologize. On March 2nd. Because of the independence to a
single site, I still think a pavatar is the better system. Oh well, off
to better things… ;-)