so much for that idea

You know, I thought it would be cool to post a picture of the stemware my mother-in-law sent me. I thought, "This should be easy!"

Harumph. I took the picture with the digital camera, popped out the flash card and plugged it into the computer. I got the photo off the card, then ftp'd it up to my website.

Then I composed the post, which involved trying to remember the HTML for inserting a picture, which required installing an HTML editor, and lots of other silly running hither and yon online. Finally, ta-da, it looked spectacular, except that my entire right column was missing! I use those links a lot! I need those links! So, back to the drawing board: I figure maybe it was too big, sucking up too much resources or something, so I compressed the picture and uploaded the new smaller version. Re-publish. Still no good, no links!

Screw it, you'll just have to click on the link.

Update: I just tried it again, and again, it seems like including the image is making the entire right column disappear. How odd!

Update again: it seems like this is a bug with the template. I went back through my archives to other posts with photos, and saw exactly the same behavior. Looks like I'll have to adopt a new template, if I can't figure out what's going on!

Update again: trying a new template. I really want to be able to do more photos!

Update the last: the new template shows the same bizarro behavior, even though it's the same template used by Magnetic Moments (at right), which is currently showing pictures and has the right column intact, but then again, MagMo hasn't been updated recently. I fired off an email to Blogger help, and we'll see what happens. Weird. I hope whatever it is gets fixed soon.

Update the last: I needed to make the pictures much, much smaller: 314X235 seems to be the magic setting. Huzzah! I feel silly now, but I'm also glad I kept at it and figured it out.