Gravatars Are Go

Posted on October 25th, 2007 in Customary Drivel by Deas
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I’ve been following the RSS feeds in the admin panel of my WordPress installation lately - especially regarding Gravatar (the site which provides Globally Recognized Avatars that can be used across any Gravatar-compatible site, much like a forum icon). I saw Matt Mullenweg’s post about Automattic’s purchase of Gravatar. Then I saw his post which enabled Gravatars on his personal blog. Apparently, so did Dougal Campbell, who has cooked up a wonderful little Easy Gravatars Plugin using Matt’s code snippet. Thanks to these guys, I signed up and made a Gravatar, and now Gravatars are enabled on my comments. My guess is that this will soon be incorporated into WordPress - but for now, get with the program! Make a Gravatar - it will appear on my site when you comment. Then set your blog up to use them, and they’ll appear on yours too! Yay!

Love Survey

Posted on October 25th, 2007 in Customary Drivel, 日本語 by Deas

Wow - the freshmen in Class 1 at Hakata High School sure are curious. Here’s another incredibly personal questionnaire that I filled out and then was video taped answering all in the call of duty. Gotta love these kids. No shame. None at all. Life is much more interesting as a teacher when this kind of thing regularly arrives in your letter box. And I asked their homeroom teacher afterward if the whole “Group 1″ thing meant more surveys. He grinned, shrugged a little, and then said “basically, yeah.” Ha ha. First the original Japanese transcription. A translation follows.

恋愛アンケート　1年1組1班

１．　今、愛する人はいますか？
２．　あなたは告る派ですか？待つ派ですか？
３．　異性でどういうことでキュンときますか？（具体的に）
４．　どんな人が理想ですか？
５．　高校時代恋をしてましたか？
６．　高校生の恋愛についてどう思いますか？
7．　あなたにとって恋愛とは何ですか？

＜結婚してない人に聞きます！＞

８．　プロポーズで言われたい事または言いたい事はどんな事ですか？

＜結婚している人に聞きます！＞

９．　プロポーズで言われた事または言った事はどんな言葉ですか？
１０．出会ったきっかけは何ですか？

ご協力ありがとうございました！！

Now, an English translation for our other readers.

Love Survey by Year 1 Class 1 Group 1

1. Do you have someone you love right now?
2. Are you the type of person who confesses your feelings, or waits for the other party to say something?
3. What when seen in the opposite sex makes you swoon? (Concretely speaking.)
4. What is your ideal kind of person?
5. Did you experience love during your high school days?
6. What do you think about love in high school?
7. What does love mean to you?

[This question is for people who are still unmarried.]

8. What do you want said to you when you’re proposed to, or what would you like to say when you propose?

[These questions are for married people.]

9. What was said to you when you were proposed to, or what words did you say when you proposed?
10. How did you start dating? (Read: What was the opportunity that led to it?)

Thank you very much for your cooperation!!

And I’m so sorry to disappoint you, but I’m only posting the questions - not the answers I gave. Ha ha. You can fend for yourselves if and when you get ambushed by a similar student project.