Blogging annoyances

I don't understand how this works. I know some basic HTML and it's easy. You want things, pictures, words aligned left or right and whatever and you can do it.

This thing annoys the hell out of me. I want to arrange things outside the daily blog and I keep doing things guessing and the results are not what I want.

I uploaded a picture to picasa because if I upload it to this blog it makes a new blog entry and that's not what I always want. Then in picasa I have to think, "How do I find where this picture is actually hosted?

I guess I should stop bitching. If you see a picture of a lady holding some green feathery thing on the right, that's me holding a fennel plant I harvested in July of 2008. I'd love to post something more glamorous but I don't always photograph well. I have these illusions of myself.

Just for fun I'll post this photo of some paperwhite narcissus I am growing. Oh my god! The alignment command I typed in worked!

I love paperwhites because they are easy to grow and they keep things green and flowery when it is horrible outside. This image shows just 3 bulbs in this container. What I did is every 5 or so days put a new bulb in, which in theory means that they will bloom over an extended time period. This container has 7 bowls so that's stretching it by 5 weeks.

Anyway, as a rule, I want to post a picture with almost every post I do.

Podcamp Pittsburgh

YesterdayI went to Podcamp Pittsburgh and I did get a lot from it but I am sorry to say I was not in the best physical condition to get the most out of it.

On Friday I spread 3 cubic yards of compost on a front and side yard. It took longer than expected though I was asked to sorta double dig a very clayish slope. Anyway, after 5 and a half hours labor, I really wanted to sleep in Saturday but Todd (My live in boyfriend) dragged me out. I could be at podcamp right now but alas, I don't feel ready for it. After the intro plus 2 classes I wanted to go home. Nothing scheduled at one was really right for me so I went to a video class that was too technical for me principally because I knew the speaker. He was quite engaging and while I think adding video would help get my word out (I think I might be entertaining, informative and easy on the eyes) I'm not ready, and I'm really not ready to spend 2,500 bucks on a camera.

Next was analytics, and I did get something out of that but I seriously would have slept in my seat if I didn't feel guilty about the dozens of more people without seats. This really is NOT a reflection of the instructor. Like I said, I got something out of that, I intend to use some sort of analytics to see what kind of traffic this blog generates. I have an idea of what I want to do with this blog but I haven't gotten to stating what that is. One primary goal is to keep this from being an 'embarassing blog'. I honestly have a few of those which I will NOT share with you.

Anyway, in the interest of being fair, I'll give a shout out to

• Cynthia Closkey, her session, Intro to Blogging, was easy for me to get, with Mike Woycheck of Pittsburgh Bloggers
  
• Justin Kownacki and a bunch of other bloggers, Success! (Blogs, shows, podcasts) this also was quite helpful
• Dr. Dave Mansueto, Video Compression Best Practices,this was over my head but having known Dave from his fabulous variety shows in the past and not being drawn to anything else in that timeslot, I went anyway.
• Andy Quayle, Using Analitics, yes, Andy I almost fell asleep in your class but it's not your fault.

Maybe next year I'll go and get more out of this. If I do I will make sure that I am not physically exhausted.

OK, now how do I add links? Thank you Todd! Almost forgot,
PodCampPittsburgh

picture

here's looking at you cat. wtf?hhhello??? where's the picture?
thanks todd!
now may I add an image of my lemongrass from june? why is there an add image button that does nothing?