While doing some remodeling of my blog, one of the things I wanted to do was put avatars in the comments by using the Gravitar plugin. The way it works is, you simply sign up by giving up yor email and a password, then you will be able to have an avatar to display in other blogs that have this plugin.

I went to sign up for this, but after hitting submit, the page simply reloaded. I tried this several different times, then I even went with a different email that is on a different pop server.

After failing all attempts, I went to the forums. I thought there was hope. Many others were having this same problem, and the administrator was manually activating everyone. I was disheartened to see that there hasn’t been an administrator reply to any requests in a LONG TIME!

Just a few minutes ago, I sent the admin an email, and I hope I get it worked out soon!

Here what I really have a problem with. This is an excellent idea and all, and seems to be promoted pretty well throughout the blogosphere. The big problem is that someone is asleep at the wheel! If you don’t want to mess with it anymore, I’m sure someone would buy the site!

Well, it’s official. I’m on vacation. I punched out this morning not to return to the grindstone until Tuesday night.

We are traveling to Iowa to attend Katie and Kent’s wedding. We are putting the dogs in a kennel and we’re only going for the weekend.

We figure the trip should take about ten hours driving. Strangely, I’m looking forward to it. We have been planning ths trip for nearly a year now, ever since they announced the engagement.

We are staying in a hotel, but my wife has made the arrangements and I haven’t mustered the balls to ask if they have WiFi available there. She knows how I am! I’m suprised she hasn’t scolded me for wanting to take my laptop with me!

Maybe you’ve seen it, maybe the spammers slipped one in on you. It’s the blog comment spam that doesn’t appear to have any links in it until you realize that the punctuation at the end of a sentence is linked.

Would someone really benefit from dominating the keyword, or keyperiod or keyquestion mark?

When someone does a Google Search for Bradsblog, I’m number one. Lucky me there’s not a lot of Brads Blogs out there)

It works out because I have many links out there with “Bradsblog” as the anchor text.

When I do a Google search for a single punctuation mark, the search does not execute. I tried Yahoo and MSN search as well, with the same result.

What is the goal of punctuation spam? Are they really trying to gain strength in SEO or are they actually thinking someone will hover and click on the period?