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