Jaden Opening Gifts from the SPSC

So here' are a bunch of pictures I just happened to have handy on my memory stick.  I’m gonna try drag-and-drop.

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Oooh..  that was nice.  I dragged and dropped just one and it looks kind of cool.  Let’s try a couple more.

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Nice..  I did those at the same time and there they are, just where I plopped them.  Okay, now let’s see what happens when I publish.

File upload forbidden?!?  Ugh.  This might be simply because I’m behind a company firewall.  I guess I’ll just save this as draft for now and come back to it later.  But in the meanwhile I’m going to keep digging up info on alternate methods for uploading pictures to Blogger (ftp?).

So, it seems that I could probably ftp my images to another server, but I really don’t want to bother with that.  The Blogger webUI should allow me to select several pics at once.  Maybe I’ll try that now.  I guess this brings up a problem I’ve seen already from home with using PIcasa (client app) to “blog this” photos – I can only do four at a time – what the heck?!?  Hence the desire here to drag-and-drop as many pictures as I want into a blogging UI (client or web, I really don’t care) and write a post around them.

Okay, this should work, but maybe not until I get out from behind the company firewall.  Here’s some evidence I found..

If you have a blog hosted on Blogger, you can include local photos in your blog posts and Windows Live Writer will automatically upload them to your Google Picasa web account.

One day later I’m at home and about to attempt another blog upload, with pictures, from Windows Live Writer.  Wish me luck and cross your fingers..

“The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.”  Ugh.  I’m putting the post up without pictures now.  Gotta think more about this.  ‘= (

Getting a Clue

In the Blogger webUI.. I couldn't select multiple images in the file dialog box as I'd hoped, but I could click "Add Photo" repeatedly in the webUI and drag-and-drop images one at a time onto each file name area and the file names showed up and the image uploads completed. They also showed up in Blogger with links to the full-size (or larger-size, at least) image, and I can see these images even from behind my company firewall. I think this is consistent with what I saw before. My company does not block Blogger, but does block PicasaWeb, so Blogger must be something of a proxy for the images I upload to it, even tho they are supposedly/seemingly hosted by PicasaWeb (i.e., they all show up in a single album in my PicasaWeb account) - and I know this from my brief former period of experimentation.

Lots of Pictures

Here I'll try to add a bunch of pictures at once using the Blogger webUI.

Small Image, No Link

Okay, so the image came through, but it doesn't link to anything. I thought it would show me a larger image if I clicked on it. Does that require access to PicasaWeb? I wonder. There doesn't appear to be any HTML link to anything around that picture. Did I mess it up when I did the drag-and-drop in the Blogger webUI? Or is it my company firewall that's blocking access?

Picture Woes

I have a draft post sitting in Windows Live Writer.. it has some images in it.. but I cannot publish the post to Blogger from there. So here I am in the Blogger webUI thinking maybe I first need to post an image this way just to get my Picasa account going? Hmm.. let's give it a shot.

Windows Live Writer

It’s free, I just downloaded it, and I’m going to find out how happy it makes me.

Blogging Clients

Dear Mr. Google,

I want to be a good blogger and I want to post lots of pictures, but online (browser-based) interfaces are not so great. What's a good blogger supposed to do?

- Good Blogger