Stop Buying Servers » WordPress http://stopbuyingservers.com Cloud Computing for Small Business Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:31:11 +0000 en hourly 1 Avatars in the cloud http://stopbuyingservers.com/2009/04/avatars-in-the-cloud/ http://stopbuyingservers.com/2009/04/avatars-in-the-cloud/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:18:33 +0000 David Schrag http://stopbuyingservers.com/2009/04/avatars-in-the-cloud/ This blog now supports gravatars in comments. An avatar is a small picture or image used to identify comments posted on line. A gravatar is a Globally Recognized Avatar, which eliminates the need to upload images to multiple forums. You upload and edit an image at the gravatar home page and associate it with your e-mail address. Thereafter, any gravatar-enabled site will pull your gravatar into a post associated with your e-mail address. (I suppose it’s possible for someone to spoof your e-mail address on a post and consequently spoof your gravatar as well, but whaddya gonna do?)

WordPress 2.7 has automatic support for gravatars in comments, so now if you look at any post in this blog that I’ve commented on you’ll see my pretty little face next to my comment. Create your gravatar now and your pretty little face can be on this blog, too!

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Look for additional design changes later this month, after I get a lesson on working with CSS.

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The initial post on this blog was composed offline, using Windows Live Writer. In a way, this violates the spirit of cloud computing. But not really. The post you’re currently reading was composed entirely on-line, using the built-in WordPress editor. But …

  • There’s nothing in the previous post that couldn’t have been composed on-line.
  • Windows Live Writer is a free, very small tool that can either be carried with you on a flash drive or downloaded on demand and installed onto any computer to which you have administrative rights.

So I don’t think using an offline blog editor to compose content in any way demonstrates an inherent fallacy in the cloud computing concept. Do you?

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