Weekly Words Challenge time again today. This week we will be showing off pictures inspired by the words GLASS and STONE. As usual it was the always cute Tink of Pickled Beef (also well renowned for drinking Bacardi out of origami cups), who chose the words for us.I'm doing something new today. I will be presenting my pictures in a slideshow, as so many others are doing. I felt that way I could choose to share more pictures, without making people scroll the page down forever to see all the shots.
At first I wanted to add the same sweet looking slideshow that G-Man has on his site, but hear me out: I downloaded the Picasa software... that must be the most crappy piece of junk software that has ever found its way onto my computer! The thing freezes up all the resources, and slows down the computer to such a rate that it becomes unusable, and unstable - and I have a pretty darn good computer... well capable of handling all the latest graphics demanding games, and significant amounts of data. I couldn't figure out what caused the problems, all I know is that I am, as of yet, unable to launch Picasa on my computer and then close it down without hitting ctrl+alt+del. What a piece of junk!
I did however log onto the Picasa website itself, and found that I already had an account there - I was unaware of this.
AHA!
That's where all the pictures I have uploaded to my blog are at! I've always wondered how to get to them in case I wanted to delete some and all that... so that was a nice little discovery. After playing around a little there I found that I could make albums and create slideshows in a much easier fashion than the fancy option I wanted. I don't even need the stupid Picasa software - I can just upload the pics directly onto the Picasa website, which works so much better than the downloadable piece of junk they offer...
...maybe none of this is news to you. I just never checked it out before, so it's news to me.
Now, all I need to figure out is how to make that stupid slideshow slower. The pics show only 3 seconds before going to the next. I think that's too fast. You can hit the pause button, and that way you can look at the pictures at your own pace.
Well, let's try this - shall we? Here are my pictures for this week:
Hope you liked the new format. That gives you a couple more shots than what I usually offer. Next week we'll be playing with PAPER and CERAMIC. See you then.
Do check out the Commenter of the Month story I posted yesterday, in case you missed it.
