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Jul 31 2008

A New Day, A New Experiment

Published by James at 5:23 am under Blog Related

If I’ve done this right, above these words is a picture of the Chicago River from the walkway behind my hotel. The picture is actually stored at Facebook, and was taken and uploaded via my Blackberry.

If this works, I now have a shorter way to put pictures in posts than I have before, that is, upload to Facebook and link in the post.

UPDATE: After checking the post, I find that all there is is a link to the picture, which is an OK thing, though I don’t know if people who aren’t my FB friends can get to it. If anyone who is *not* on FB could click the link and let me know if it works in a comment, I’d appreciate it. I know I have at least three readers who don’t do FB.

I have some other thoughts on easy ways to get pictures into posts, but since I’m not taking lots of time on media in posting (I want to actually post), this is what you get for now. I’ll experiment more with photos another day. Whatever I finally figure out will have to be very quick and easy (I wish my Word template that uploads blog posts for me would just upload pictures I paste into the document, for example) or there will be no pictures. Because when I wait around for time to post pictures I don’t post anything and then having a blog is kind of like having a snow shovel in Miami.

Oh–and I’m updating the picture in the title bar again today. I won’t always tell you, but since this is new I am now.

BTW, there was an actual post yesterday that was not blog related, and there will be another coming tomorrow morning.

6 responses so far

6 Responses to “A New Day, A New Experiment”

# dlron 31 Jul 2008 at 5:31 am

I don’t see nothin’…
# Jameson 31 Jul 2008 at 5:36 am

did you click the link where it says “The Chicago River”? And still see nothing?

See above where I say in the update, “all there is is a link to the picture.”
# dlron 31 Jul 2008 at 5:39 am

the link seems to work…
# Isaac Downingon 31 Jul 2008 at 7:53 am

The link works in Google Reader, too.
# Adielon 01 Aug 2008 at 3:59 am

Love the new title picture!
# Jameson 01 Aug 2008 at 4:57 am

Thanks Adiel–it was really fun coming along that old phone booth in downtown Philly. The kids had never seen one, and we told them about the “stuff as many people as you can into a phone booth” craze of earlier days, and thus the picture.