Monday, June 23, 2008

a word about Blackberry photos

All things end.

When I upload my BlackBerry photos, I'm sending them to Blogger's servers, and Blogger gives me only one gigabyte's worth of storage capacity. I'm already using 6% of that capacity with the photos I've uploaded (the Walk is barely a month old), so I'll soon have to figure out how to send pics from the BlackBerry to Photobucket, where I have unlimited bandwidth, and display the pics that way. This isn't something for you, the reader, to worry about, but it's rapidly becoming a concern for me. Sit tight.


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3 comments:

jeanie oliver said...

HI there,
Have been catching up with you as I am behind the times because of other stuff replacing the pleasure of reading about your journey.
One quick question-do you miss seeing at least one person a day who really knows you? It is so rare for most people to experience a place where they are meeting new faces and leaving behind the ones they just met, that I wondered how this affects you.
also, as I read I wonder if you would like comments more or if they add to your load?
Jeanie Oliver
Salem, Arkansas
hometown also of the great prof, Jeffery Hodges!

Kevin Kim said...

JO,

More comments will be fine! I enjoy almost all of the reactions I receive, and even the ones I don't enjoy are instructive some way or other.

I do miss hanging with close friends, and often feel it's too bad that I'm not in one place long enough to really get to know the people I meet. It's impossible to forge deep friendships this way unless I and those people actively maintain frequent e-contact throughout the journey. But most of the folks I've met are busy, and only some can truly afford to "hang," even cyberspace-wise. I accept this as one of the consequences of the type of journey I'm taking.

Now if I can only stop people from making those Forrest Gump jokes...


Kevin

Stafford said...

Kevin,

On the photos. Your 1GB limit on blogger is shared with another Google service - Picasa, I guess Google's version of Photobucket if you will.
You have a Picasa account by virtue of having any other Google account (Gmail, Blogger etc etc.) just go to the main Picasa page (http://picasaweb.google.com) and log in with your existing Google credentials.
You might consider upgrading your google storage. For $20 a year you can increase your storage over all google's services. (A unified 10GB for Picasa, Blogger, Gmail etc. which should be more than enough for your needs.)
Maybe that helps.
Stafford