I left the credit line intact, as you can see.
But somehow a completely different web site--- not the one in the credit line--- somehow intercepted and redirected the link, claiming bandwidth thievery. I'm not sure how or why: The Blogger software is a black box, run by Google. There's no way to know what, exactly, is going on behind the scenes.
I pulled the item and ran a new one.
So, today I'm trying again, but this time with a locally-stored version of the image and with the originating site's credit line intact. If you see the image above, it worked. If not, there's something fishy going on.
Long way to go for a small joke, eh?
Small joke maybe, small image also. I can't read it and clicking on it doesn't make it any bigger. :-(
ReplyDelete"I left the credit line intact, as you can see."
ReplyDeleteNo, actually, I cannot.
(If I could perhaps I could work out the original site so I could go there and actually read what the text says.)
Mildred, the church gossip, and self-appointed monitor of the church's morals, kept sticking her nose in to other people's business. Several members did not approve of her extra curricular activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.
ReplyDeleteShe made a mistake, however, when she accused Fred, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon. She emphatically told Fred (and several others) that everyone seeing it there would know exactly what he was doing!
Fred, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned and walked away. He didn't explain, defend, or deny..........he said nothing.
Later that evening, Fred quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred's house........ walked home......... and left it there all night.
You gotta love Fred.
Gotta love that last post! (PigseyePeg.) Somehow my earlier post didn't make it. (Yes, I did click on Publish, but I'm still using Firefox 2.0.0.16, so perhaps that's why.) What I said was that Anonymous and George might want to try Qjot or Adobe Reader (?) to look at, and zoom on, the image. I had so much trouble finding an equivalent to Preview for Windows I finally had to give up, but had no trouble myself viewing the text in Preview. No credit line, though...
ReplyDeleteCorrection: Qjot didn't do it, but Windows Picture and Fax Viewer does. And it's default! When you open the image (with it) there are a bunch of icons at the bottom, one of which is the magnifying glass. Just click on the plus-sign and you can zoom to your heart's content, or until you can read the text, whichever comes first...
ReplyDeleteOK, Blogger is definitely having trouble.
ReplyDeleteAfter the original mess with this post, the replacement image I posted was supposed to be a clickable thumbnail; it wasn't. Rocketmouse lost a reply posted here; so did I (I wrote it and posted it, but it just went to that great big Bit Bucket in the sky).
In a way, this nicelt illustrates out earlier discussion of free and Open Source software. Blogger's not OSS, but it's free--- and this is the kind of thing you run into.
I apologize for the confusion.
Here is a direct link to the full-scale image.
http://tinyurl.com/65ydod
I can't post it as a live link here; Blogger doesn't allow that in replies (another Blogger quirk). You'll have to copy/paste.
But at least you now can see the image... and the original site's tag, which I had there all along.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go park my car in front of PigsEyePeg's house all night.
Some people get touchy when you post their images, not because of copyright necessarily, but because of bandwidth issues. A popular blog or website that "hot-links" an image residing on a smaller site could easily bring the smaller site to its knees, or cost the owner a fortune in bandwidth charges.
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