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Every now and again, I get the following message when starting the Cisco VPN Client on my iMac:

Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem

It turns out there is an easy way to fix the error. Simply open a Terminal window and type the following:

sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/CiscoVPN/CiscoVPN restart

It will ask you to enter your password then it will restart the VPN subsystem and you should then be able to run the VPN Client with no more errors (once or twice I’ve had to run this comand a second time before it would work).

I recently updated the Monochrome Graffiti theme to support Gravatar but I thought I'd do a separate post on how to add support for it to your own themes. The good news is Graffiti already has support for Gravatar built it so all you need to do is add the image to your theme. Simply add the following line inside the #foreach($comment in $comments) loop in your post page.

$macros.gravatar($comment.Email, $comment.Username, $comment.IPAddress, "%{size ='60'}")

If the user doesn't have a Gravatar, it will automatically handle it and display a generic image. Of course, you can change the size attribute to make the image larger or smaller, but that's all there is to it. :)

I updated the Monochrome theme over the weekend to support Gravatar. If you don't know what Gravatar is, it's a globally recognized avatar. You can sign up with your email address at the Gravatar website and add an avatar. Then, every time you leave a comment on a blog supporting Gravatar, your avatar will appear next to it. Simple!

I also added a 'Similar Posts' section to the blog.post.view page. You can download the updated Monochrome theme from the Graffiti Themes page.

As I promised in the last post, here are a couple of bonus themes to end Theme Week. They are blue and orange variations of the PointSpace theme.

That brings the total available themes to download from my Graffiti Themes page to 10, so what are you waiting for? Give your Graffiti site a new look.

It's Friday, and the last day of Theme Week on RichMercer.com. To finish off the week, I give you GreenWay, a free, fully standards-compliant CSS template designed by Free CSS Templates. This free template is released under a Creative Commons Attributions 2.5 license, so you’re pretty much free to do whatever you want with it (even use it commercially) provided you keep the links in the footer intact.

You can download it from the Graffiti Themes page.

Also, look out for a couple of bonus themes later today.

Thursday's theme is called DeepBlue which was also originally created by Breezy New Media and is available for download from the Graffiti themes page.

Tomorrow is the last day of Theme Week and as well as the final theme of the week, there's going to be a special bonus.

Wednesday's theme is CrystalX, a theme created by Vít Dlouhý.

Download it from the Graffiti Themes page and look out tomorrow for the next theme.

Tuesday's download for Theme Week is called PointSpace and was originally created by Breezy New Media. It's available for download right now from the Graffiti themes page.

Again, I'd love to you hear from you if you have a theme you want converting to Graffiti. The best way is using the Contact Form.

This week is Theme Week on richmercer.com and here's Monday's theme. Called Clean&Green by Rambling Soul it has a minimal look with smooth graphics with shades of green and gray. It is released under Creative Commons 2.5 License.

You can download it now from the Graffiti themes page.

Also, I'd love to you hear from you if you have a theme you'd like to see converted to Graffiti. The best way is using the Contact form.

Look out for the next theme tomorrow!

As promised, you can now download the Monochrome theme for use on your Graffiti site. Orginally created by Rambling Soul, this theme is released under the Creative Commons 2.5 License.

You can download the theme from the Graffiti themes page.

P.S. Next week is theme week here on richmercer.com and I'll be releasing a new Graffiti theme each day. Keep checking back to get them as they're released but here's a sneak preview of Monday's theme, Clean&Green.