thechrisproject photography

Ouch. Playing drums at shows was always rough on my hands. This was from April 2001.

Self portrait at Navy Pier, May 2005

My favorite picture of G-Regz.

Marigold’s for breakfast with Monica.

This was posted with Hello. I thought that I might’ve closed the program too early when I was uploading, so I gave it all a go again. It works pretty good. It adds a little icon that links to Hello’s webpage, but apparently I can edit the post and remove it. So here I go. It works okay, but I’d still like it to be better. I want to click a button in Picassa and have it take me here: to a blogger Create Post screen with the image already there. I really don’t want to use the rest of Hello, I think.

Hmm. So Blogger will accept TIF files, but apparently not 18mb TIF files. I wouldn’t have guessed that they wouldn’t, but I wasn’t told that. The error message didn’t specify either.

Oftentimes I’m a pretty patient user, especially with shareware/open source/freeware programs. But with some programs/webpages/services I consume, I’m a lot more picky. I think things should work easily, the first time. If they don’t, I pass, and that’s why I unistalled Hello. This seems to work okay, but I have to make a lower res file every time I want to publish to Blogger, which is another step that annoys me. Perhaps I should write a photoblog addition to my blogging software? That seems like a lot of work. Maybe I’ll check Flickr out.

I’ve been using Picasa2 for a while to manage my pictures. I’ve noticed the Blogger link in it for a while and wondered how it worked. After taking a quick suvery how it works, I downloaded Hello, a program that is, from my quick glance, a way to send pictures to people. And it allowed me to post pictures on my blog, or so I thought. Not so much. My initial thought was that I’d hit a button, and my picture would appear in my blog. No, it put an entry in my blog, but it just put a link to Hello. I’ll investigate more, but this was not the cake walk I thought it’d be, given that it’s all Google software.

Investigating more, I see that Hello is an IM/Photo program of some sort.

The fine folks at Picasa have worked with us to create the quickest, easiest way for Windows users to send photos to a blog—via IM. That’s right, Instant Messaging has gone to the blogs. The IM client they built is called Hello. It’s a peer-to-peer networking application that enables users to share photos and text-chat about them live. It’s a snazzy little app but it’s even more impressive when it’s engineered to work seamlessly with Blogger.

Huh? So I have to use a peer-to-peer networking client-side networking application to share photos? This does not sound like what I was envisioning.

Just use Hello to send your pictures to BloggerBot. BloggerBot will automatically resize your JPG pictures, add your captions, and publish your pictures to the Web.

So I went to my blog. There was no picture there! Maybe I had to wait for a while? I had no idea. I uninstalled Hello and sat disappointed. 300mb of photos on my blog? Sign me up. Peer-to-peer networking application for sharing photos? I don’t need that.

Full Moon on Lake Monona, June 2005 

IP gone insane
This is just ridiculous.

Sometimes Cheating Pays
Ouch. A story about cheating in gradeschool that I found in the blog of a public defender.