A very Mondayish Monday

[white_hart]

About the best I can say about today is that I got a bit more done than I would have done if I'd stayed in bed, which, given the combined effects of crashing depression and an awful night's sleep, I was quite tempted to do. I did at least remember about Spotify halfway through the morning and stuck the Brandenburg Concertos on in the background as a way of distracting my brain from going round and round in depressive circles.

Despite not really feeling up to socialising I did manage to have a very pleasant lunch with my old tutor from Warwick in the early 90s, who has fetched up as a Senior Research Fellow of Campion Hall and member of my current Faculty, and his wife who is also a Senior Research Fellow of Campion Hall (the first woman to have been granted that honour), and took advantage of it being the vacation to take a long enough break to have a full tour of Campion and its art collections. Just down the road, I also spotted the blue plaque on the house where Dorothy L Sayers was born, which I hadn't seen before (Brewer Street is not a road I walk down very often).



(What do people use to post images to DW these days? I can't use my Flickr account unless I pay them £50 a year, which I'm not planning to do, and I can't see how to make Instagram divulge the image location while the embed code doesn't actually embed anything.)

Comments

[hebethen]

So APPARENTLY -- and I only found this out recently, but it seems to have been around a while now -- Dreamwidth got image hosting at some point. There's a like... 500MB?... cap, but it even makes thumbnails and lets you set privacy levels per image. It's not very integrated into things, which I will blame for my not having realized -- I'm not sure if the beta post editor has it more integrated, but more universally, you can get to it from Home -> Create -> Upload Images.

Personally I had been using Imgur before finding out about the "new" image hosting, but you can't control privacy on Imgur -- at least not with a guest upload, anyway -- and it's linked to Reddit with all the attendant Redditness.

[white_hart]

Thanks - I managed to wrangle that to get the picture in this post but it wasn’t entirely straightforward and I don’t think there’s much storage available so I was wondering about other options. Though I suspect that the big advantage of DW hosting is that there isn’t the risk of it pulling a Flickr and suddenly changing the terms and holding my photos hostage.

[nineveh_uk]

As someone who CBA to find other means of photo hosting, DW is doing fine for my holiday photos, and I get round the vagaries of it deciding to show your photo in a weird way by C+P the code from the last one that looked right. It's not perfect, but it's easier for me than finding somewhere else.

[white_hart]

It does seem to work OK (the pic in this post was very small, but I have managed to make it a bit bigger) and isn't a bad solution for the occasional pics I want to post on DW...

[antisoppist]

I haven't managed to get Dreamwidth's hosting to work. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't and I don't know what makes it work when it does. I use tinypic, which is free, and is what I was using before. It's owned by Photobucket. I do worry one day they will all disappear because someone has sold something.

But with all the Tumblr people arriving, a lot of people are posting guides to using Dreamwidth's image hosting and at some point when I have some time I will sit down with one and try and work out what I am doing wrong.

[hilarita]

Hooray for the DLS plaque! And well done for getting out of bed - I am relying on habit to drag myself out on cold, grey, grey, grey, grey damp days.

[white_hart]

It’s pretty much habit keeping me going, too. That and getting up and out of the house before my brain has really started functioning.

[cmcmck]

I post using their own posting set up via google pics and that seems to work okay.

Google pics is cloud based and free with unlimited storage and a nice little editing suite.

[white_hart]

Oh, I could use google pics, as I do already use gmail for my personal email. Thanks for reminding me about it!

[conuly]

I used imgr last time, but honestly, I pulled their name out of a hat.

[oracne]

Re: Sayers plaque: cooooooooooooooooool.

[white_hart]

That was pretty much my reaction when I saw it!

[lokifan]

Oh yay! Hello Ms Sayers :D