I was hoping I could keep my JOTW-OMG post up as the first one you’ll find here forever but a blogger’s gotta do what a blogger’s gotta do, right?  It feels like I have been bitten by the blog bug all over again. I started in 2005 –and couldn’t stop since—but now I’m actually omnipresent in the web *wishful thinking*.  Okay, I’m still just a tiny dot in this vast blogiverse (I just made that up) but last night, I was inspired to secure me a seat in the WordPress table. I think WordPress rocks! I test-drove it last night and it seems professional and organized thus far; and I thought the "dashboard" was kind of novel -- or maybe I just haven't been around! I think it’s a good platform for my daily hum, and I mean “daily”. But that doesn’t mean I’m turning my back from my birthplace nor our dear Bravenet Community (with the award and all? no freakin’ way!) I think I’ll never win a journal award anywhere else ever again even in my next life, so I owe it to Bravenet (you’re still the best!). It’s like comparing apples and oranges anyway -- well, I’m eating both. Oh and another thing, I was blog-hopping yesterday (around Bravenet ofcourse!) and amidst seeing enviable digital scraps made by wonderful people and which I wish I can have time to tinker with, it hit me how enormous the earning potential is with this growing blogging field. In the near future, the occupation check box in standard application forms will include:  þ Blogger.   I might as well get compensated for something I love to do, right? Plus with a soon-to-be “California” real estate mortgage potentially eating up my income as a nutraceutical pee-on (don’t tell anyone I said that *LOL* I so love my job!), I could use some extra dough to afford my hula dancing costumes *pathetic* and the indispensable caffeine fixes *more pathetic*. But I ain’t mixing business with pleasure. So yeah, SPECIAL thoughts stay put, mundane ones wander around in WordPress. (check out my new sites: Steel Magnolia in a can of Diet Coke, and Miscellanea from the Future Renaissance Woman). If I only know where or how to start raking in the moolah. I’m so wet behind the ears. Can anybody help me?

Hi Clarisse. Just saw your tag about the avi problem.

To use your photo as your avi, you have to first reduce it to a size no larger than 100x100 pixels (if you have some kind of photo editing program, use that). I try to make mine a bit smaller than that, just to make sure they'll take, because sometimes, the dimensions don't quite match.

If that isn't helping to resolve the problem, please let me know. Also, let me know if you're getting any error messages in your profile section. If it's not something I can help you with, you may need to contact Bravenet. But let's try this method of reducing your image size on your computer before you upload it, first

Hi Clarisse. Just thought I'd drop by and see if you were able to get your photo to upload okay. If not, please drop by and let me know, and we'll see what we can do to help you get that resolved.

Friday, July 11th 2008 @ 11:32 AM