But I Said Please…
Looking back at my last post, you may think that those are just two pictures that I painlessly added as part of my standard blogging routine. Indeed I do try to add pictures as often as I can to break up the message, but last time it was anything but painless.
I got the image of the turkey from my mom in email. I downloaded it and looked at it. Mac Preview opened it without difficulty. I opened it in Photoshop to retouch it slightly, crop and scale it so it fit in the blog post. No problems there. Then I went to upload it to my blog, and this:
Ah, bad design, how do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways…
- What security guidelines? Where are these posted? Did I set them accidentally, or are you enforcing them on me?
- Where can I go to examine and potentially change the security guidelines? Tell me what about the image is violating it so I can make the change.
- And while you’re giving me a solution, you can take away the semblance of a solution you have now. “Try another.”?! Maybe Apple should try this marketing technique… “Hey, we don’t have an iPhone for you today. Try another phone!” I’m sure that would be just as successful.
It turns out that the image had something wrong with it - I uploaded it manually, but still wasn’t able to get it to show. When I went to delete it off of the web server, it said, “I can’t find the file you want to delete!” Yet, sure enough, a 136kb file is still sitting on my web server. What a strange little image file.