the blog quebecois

If you look below the calendar on the left you will there confront a most exciting discovery. Click it to behold a Google world map.

You can leave a marker indicating where you live -- zoom or scroll the map as you need, or switch to a satellite or hybrid view. You can also leave a short message and the URL of your blog or website, if you have one. If you'd like a (free) account of your own, go here.

Note: To install the map, the developers generate a couple of pieces of code to cut-and-paste into your template. I don't know if there was a problem with the code or with my site, but neither worked. I eventually just stripped the Javascript out and used this as a link

<a href="http://myguestmap.lorca.eti.br/guestmap.jsp?id=gnotalex">My guestmap</a>

(you'd use "yourloginname" replacing "gnotalex," of course) which seems to work fine.

Update: Apparently you have to fill out all the fields. If you don't have an URL, just use something like www.google.com or www.fakeaddress.com. Also, you have to select one of the icons before you place it.