Just look at this place...cockroach turds everywhere, a thin layer of dust over everything, and the apples in that bag have turned into a single lump of dark brown "that's where those went!".

 

Let me explain my situation with an illustration. Think of moving into a new house, but not because you just want something bigger. You have to, because your old house has simply vanished. All your stuff, everything, is gone. This is what happened to my hard drive. No, it didn't disappear. It crashed without any hope of recovery. It went beyond not working correctly, it can't even be bothered to work just enough to retrieve and transfer my data. All my data, my music, work, pictures, anything I had solely on that hard drive is locked in it's uncompromising grasp. I'd been working on my website for a while...and poof, suddenly it's as if I never started it.
But don't you have a backup hard drive? Of course not. I'm too busy being the only person in the world who doesn't have a backup hard drive to be bothered to go out and get a backup hard drive. I'm doing this for you. You know, Gallant would've never been that effective without Goofus.

So anyways, my old HDD is now a brick and I finally got a new one after a few snags. So it's time to rebuild. I've got MP3s on my iPod and more music on CD...thankfully, many of my recent pictures are at flickr, in their full size (I knew I'd justify buying the pro service), and I've already started to get cracking on the website. It's good to be back.

Aside from Live Spaces update to the the Lists, another recent update I'm enjoying is the File Sharing. On your What's New page, one of the links at the top is "Share Files". This basically allows you to upload whatever kind of files you want and have them available online. I think it's really cool, and I've immediately found a use for it.

 

My last post was about loud cell phone talkers...and one of the comments mentioned making stickers, so I put together a picture that could be used as a sticker.

 

My public folder is in the right column, not too far down from the top. Just click on the folder called "Check it Out" and the picture is in there. If you so wish, download the picture, print out however many you want on sticker paper, and you're good to go. It can be a sticker art campaign: Thank You For Not Shouting.

 

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200708.24 - A sticker art campaign endorsed by the National Headache Foundation. The aim is to raise awareness for those speaking abnormally loud on their cellular phones, or just speaking loud in general.

I just have a question... how do you get photos to show up in the middle or wherever of your blog, rather than at the end? Your help would be greatly appreciated. :)

Published By KarmicBackhand

Rather than responding in the comment box, I figured this would be the easiest way to explain how to do it, and anyone else that may've had the same question could benefit as well. MSN definitely doesn't doesn't make it easy to use photos or pictures in your blog. Thankfully, they allow you to view the HTML code of your posts. Using this, adding an image is as easy as adding 1 line of HTML code. But just to make sure I leave nothing out, I'll go over the whole process.

 

For images I need to upload from my CPU, I use ImageShack - http://www.imageshack.us

You can upload images there for free, and they can resize the image as well if you need. Once you've uploaded your image, the link that you will use is the 'Direct link to image'

 

Find the address of the image you want to use (right-click on the image, then go to Properties. The Address[URL] is what you want.). Then copy the full address (example: Address (URL):  http://www.website.com/image.jpg )

 

At this point you've either copied the address from ImageShack after uploading it, or from a website somewhere. (*You may want to paste the address in Notepad or Wordpad just so you don't accidentally copy something else to your clipboard and lose the image address.)

 

In your Blog Entry window, where you're making your post, in the menu is a button that looks like this <HTML>. Clicking that will change the view of your document to HTML Mode. You'll see whatever you've typed, unformatted and with a bunch of HTML tags ( < and > ) everywhere. Find where you want to put the image (if you need to, before you toggle the HTML view on, type in something that you'll be able to recognize, like xxx or something that will act as a place holder so you know where to put the image...remember to delete this after you add the image).

 

Add this code, substituting "yourImageAddress" with the address you've copied (keep the quotes, though):

 

At this point, the image is coded into your entry. Click the <HTML> button again to toggle back to the formatted view. You should see your image in the entry. You can move it around by clicking and dragging it. There are also a few options that will be available by right-clicking it.

 

If you want to try and add a border to the image, when adding the <IMG SRC> code, before the greater than sign ( > ), add this: Border="1"

You can put higher numbers in for bigger borders, but 1 usually looks best. Here's what your code should look like with the border added:

 

* UPDATE: I found another way to add images to your blogs that return the same result. This method seems to me to be much simpler, although being able to edit the HTML code may still prove helpful.

 

Open a new browser window. Assuming you have it copied, paste the address of the image (URL) into the Browser Address field at the top of the window. Hit ENTER. The image should show up in the window. You can copy and paste it into your blog entry or drag it directly into the Blog Entry area.

The page where I got this info can be found here.