Why is it so hard?

Perhaps I’m missing the obvious – it has been known – but why is adding images to this blog such a pain in the aperture?

I decided I ought to set up the Picasa end of this thing properly, so I got all signed up. And, sure enough, there were multiple copies of images I had previously published through this blog, but then edited and republished. Being of a reasonably tidy mind, I set about managing the multiples by deleting those deemed unnecessary. I was aware that this might break the blog image links, but I figured I could relink directly to the Picasa album. 

Huh! Fat chance. Not once would the copied and pasted Picasa URL to an image work. I had to resort to uploading from the blog interface, again, and then deleting in Picasa. How awkward is that?

Add in the fact that whenever I add an image to upload it is dumped at the head of the post, when I want it where my cursor was last positioned. So, I have to get down and dirty with the HTML, cut it from the top, and then rummage about to try and isolate where I actually want it. Rinse and repeat three, four, maybe more times for every image added to a post.

It’s at times like that, when you’ve spent the best part of an afternoon fumbling about in this poxy web interface and basically got back to where you started having achieved very little, you wonder why anyone ever tries to blog at all!

I promise, if I can muster the stamina, to post the sequential DoF shots later this weekend. But don’t be surprised if I despair of it and end up just letting the whole thing wither on the vine.