The Junk Drawer

A junkie runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. [William Burroughs, Junkie]

Photo Test

Filed under: Unread instruction manuals — Matthew at 3:17 pm on Wednesday, February 1, 2006

I am just testing the photo upload feature of WordPress. Following is an image I took from the catalog of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. It’s an anti-war poster from Vietnam.

Two More Casualties

The above picture is a linked thumbnail. When I tried to use the original, it defaulted to an unlinked thumbnail. I think the reason is that the frame containing the text of a blog post is a fixed width. If the picture is too large for that fixed width, the editor uses an unlinked thumbnail by default. If you encounter this problem, you might try down-sizing your image in a photo editor such as Photoshop. In fact, let me try that now.

Two More Casualties

OK, that didn’t work. This requires some more research.

…to be continued…