WDM, IA - Blog Photos

As you could see from some previous blogs, I’ve been having some problems with the photos on the blog. They look find in my computer but when they get to the blog, they are over-exposed and have big black blotches where the light source is. Don’t look now to find them, we’ve got the problem fixed and have gone back to fix the bad ones.

We noticed it first on July 19 when I wrote the ‘Fixing the Trim’ blog but Gary was able to fix the pictures for that blog, not without lots of extra work, however. We noticed it a little on the Google Camera blog but it was really apparent when I wrote the blog about walking in the mall. That was a Friday and the pictures came out awful. We knew we had to fix them. Our first thought was that there was a problem with our downloads to the Blog website so we decided to visit the library in the evening to try their faster wi-fi. We drove up and: our first clue was that there were no cars in the parking lot. Our second clue was that the lights were off, and our final clue was that the sign on the window which listed the Friday hours as 10 - 5. Oops. We ain’t that dumb - we were able to deduce those clues and we figured out that the library was closed. Nothing gets by us. Not even on a Friday night.

We drove close to the building, fired up my computer and tried the wi-fi. But, they had turned it off for the evening. Shucky - darn. Well, Panera is close so we drove over, set up on one of their tables and tried again. Another oops. The pictures still were overexposed on the blog. Gary then went online and logged into to a user group for the piece of software I use to write the blog, scrolled through the problem topics, found one just like ours and read the description. Sure enough, another user had the same problem. Gary then wrote our problem on to the group, then e-mailed to pictures to show the administrator of the group what our problem was. Saturday, the guy e-mailed us his thanks and said he’d work on it.

Sure enough, Sunday evening he e-mailed us a corrected Beta version of the software and asked us to test it to see if he had solved our problem. On Sunday night! Imagine that.

It worked, we tested it thoroughly, e-mailed him back to thank him and we’re good to go

What service.