It was only about a week ago that I added those funky Wavatar thingies to Losing it[1]. At the time, I mentioned that as I was still using WordPress 2.3.3, I had to use a separate plugin to make the little beasties appear. Well, now that I’ve upgraded, I have waved a fond goodbye to the plugin, and added the magic bit of code to my comments loop code.

I took the opportunity to fiddle with the CSS a bit, and now Gravatars and Wavatars will appear without an extra border around them, which makes them fit the comments box a bit better. One interesting thing – for reasons best known to the Automattic guys, the Gravatar implementation of Wavatars uses a different calculation than that used by the plugin, so everyone gets a different identity now. If you have commented before and don’t have a Gravatar, take a look at the post you commented on[1] to see your lovely new face.

[1] Or just add a comment here if you like. And remember that each email address gets a different Wavatar