The "Stick"

The photos above represent a test crop and include the Ponoka Rodeo queen, the stagecoach and several pics at the cabin. How to caption the photos in-situ escapes me and Blogger Help is less than helpful. This would be the first entry since acquisition of the "Stick", aka a mobile Internet key for the computer. Superior (most of the time) to my dial-up, the stick can provide near broadband speeds, when it so pleases. This does not always happen because my signal on the Shuswap is weak and other traffic may dilute whatever signal there is. However, most of the time, it seems to work well.
The purpose here, then is to send a pic or two to see if improved uploading speed results in improved photo capability for the blog

E-mailing to Blog with photos

This last method of using the e-mail account to post a message with attached picture worked just fine. By the time that I exited Hotmail and opened the blog, the picture and text were there (actually, the photo was just completing its download), obviously a superior method of transportation than posting directly. I tried, once again, to post a picture directly, using the small photo setting. This one never came through at all, having apparently frozen at some stage. If anyone were to read this blog (unlikely) and have a solution other than e-mailing (using a dial-up connection), please don't hesitate to let me know

Test mailing to blog July 23rd 2009

July 23rd 2009 from the Shuswap
One of the problems with using Blogger has been that the speed of download for photos has been abysmally slow or hasn't worked at all. Hoping that this relates to the size of photos, I am using Hotmail which automatically downsizes pictures. With any luck, this may be faster than direct downloads to the blog

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July 23rd 2009 E-mail to Blog from Hotmail

July 23rd 2009
This message comes from Hotmail as a test. The next one will incorporate a picture to see if blogger speeds improve in this way

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Blog exploratory mission July 23rd 2009

The last post on this site was made in 2007. Since then, hard drives have been replaced and two years of southern travel have taken place. This post is merely an exploratory mission to see if the blog still lives (which, apparently, it does) and to see if the picture posting process has improved any in the intervening two years since last used. If this works, then I might update the blog with text and photos from 2008 and 2009