Monthly Archives: January 2009

Apt ads in Gmail: a demon slayer for your puppy?

Google is the king of context-sensitive ads. Sometimes, the ads that display are eerily apt, however. Take the one I saw today when I opened an e-mail from a friend. He wrote to tell us about the new puppy in their family, Angus the Scotty dog.  I’ve circled the ad so you’re sure not to [...]

PostBot test #10

Attempting to post a second problem picture, a large one saved at 80%. It let me select it this time, at least. Let’s see if it posts, though. Update: I’ll be darned…It posted!

PostBot test 8

4 medium images 80% quality 2 previously uploaded, 2 new newly-shot pictures

PostBot test #7

2 Medium images 80% quality

Added Fotobook and Lightbox 2

Just a quick nerdy update. Just skip this if your eyes glaze over when people start talking about technical stuff. In Howie’s footsteps, I added the Fotobook plugin to my blog. It’s an application that pulls my Facebook albums and displays them within my blog on their own page. They’re on the Photos page. I [...]

PostBot test #5

The multiple pictures seemed to be sailing along as I added the previous test shots to the entry. I also added a large shot I took on Saturday. When I went to add another large shot to the entry, the app Force Closed. I tried re-opening that draft, but every attempt resulted in a Force [...]

PostBot test #4

Jiggity-jiggity, it worked! Let’s try one at the large size, JPG 85. If that works, I’ll post multiple large pictures and go from there. Maybe last night’s problems were a fluke, a poor connection or something? I was on Edge, not wi-fi.