Coffee Cup via E-mail to Flickr


I have not posted in a while, but thanks to the Everyday Matters group, I have been drawing almost daily. Now I’m playing around with Flickr to see if this feature will work. You’re supposed to be able to e-mail a photo to your blog and to Flickr simultaneously. Here goes! Well… A lot of things went wrong, and the way the post looks now is the result of a few edits. Flickr inserts a div tag and floats the image to the right. The body of the post was chopped up, probably due to the line breaks in Yahoo e-mail. Yes, I tried it from there, the worst possible scenario, just to see if it would work at all. But the most unforgivable thing Flickr does is to put a black border around the picture, with no way to remove it save for going to the HTML after the fact. Now if I had a digital camera and was running around snapping pictures all the time and posting from on a daily basis, or posting from wi-fi hot spots, I’d probably care about this more. But since I only post every couple of weeks at best, doing it from home with Ecto is still the best way for me to blog. Still, I like to try out these features and play “what if.”

2 Comments »

  1. Alex said,

    October 20, 2005 @ 11:48 am

    Wow what work! I love the coffee cup it makes me want a cup except these days I am more partial to decafe chai. I love whole foods, but noew I found this new market where I live and its the best!!!! :)

  2. Lisa Ridolfi said,

    October 22, 2005 @ 1:56 pm

    Thanks for your kind words, Alex. I’m always on the lookout for alternatives to the big supermarkets too. The smaller stores seem to be the wave of the future. Well, I’m off to get another cup of that caffeine. Happy drawing and chai sipping!

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