The Spirit of the Stairwell » avatars http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 All the podcasts featuring excited puppy-like man child, Chris Mead in one place for you to download and enjoy. These include, but aren't limited to the following ... The Spirit of the Stairwell: Musings on love, life and improvisation from a group of improvisers that run the experiencial gamut from mewling newborn to wizerned old timer. The Ood Cast: A podcast dedicated to all things Doctor Who, the most consistently imaginative, courageous, scary, maddening, heartfelt show on television. The Odd Cast: Like the bastard offspring of a pirate radio station and that thing you used to do when you were young where you would just talk into a cassette player for 20 minutes and then make your mum and dad listen to the whole thing. The Odd Cast is anarchic, inconsistent, sporadically hilarious and actually surprisingly well produced. Plug in, download, switch on and then look around confused like you don't quite understand what's happening. Excelsior! Chris Mead no Chris Mead spiritofthestairwell@me.com spiritofthestairwell@me.com (Chris Mead) Copyright 2010 All the podcasts featuring excited puppy-like man child, Chris Mead in one place for you to download and enjoy. The Spirit of the Stairwell » avatars http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net Geometry & Gravatars http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net/2009/09/geometry-gravatars/ http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net/2009/09/geometry-gravatars/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:18:09 +0000 Chris http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net/?p=469 Just a quick one today. You may have noticed that when you leave comments on the site, it automatically generates a funny geometric pattern to serve as your avatar. They look a bit rubbish, like a digital hippy has tried to recreate the willow pattern in wicker. You may also have noticed that when I or another blogger leaves a message, it displays a lovely picture of us instead. How do we do it? Do we know something that you don’t? Are we part of a secret society of techno geekery with online powers far in excess of your own?

Yes. Yes, we are. Deal with it.

But also head on over to gravatar.com and sign up for an account. The site automatically links your email address to an avatar image of your choice which can then be accessed by any blog, forum or page that is gravatar compliant (like this one). The results is a consistent digital presence over multiple sites. And in the end isn’t that what we’re all searching for?

That and a self-cleaning waffle maker.

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