Both this blog’s comment system and the forums now support the Gravatar (globally recognized avatar) service.

First, go to gravatar.com and sign up with simply an email/password/avatar. The email you sign up with should be the one you use when making posts/comments (doesn’t have to be made visible to anyone, just the same).

This blog will pickup the avatar automatically w/in a few minutes. To use it on the forum, edit your forum profile like you would to update your avatar and select the new “Gravatar” option. Again, you need to make sure the forum has the same email address on file that you use when commenting here.

Once you’re done, voila! Gravatar is increasingly becoming adopted by other sites, so it’ll payoff even more as time goes on…