11/18 Journal

This sugar cookie with party sugar sprinkles is for demonstration purposes only. Yes, I am finishing up the cookie baking for the trip to Virginia; but really the cookie was just one of the few things in the house that I could take a picture of without having to tidy first. The cookie baking area was already quite tidy.

But why did I need a demonstration image? I found out when I got home and checked the image of the cute Vue that I sent from the Saturn dealer that Verizon is now tacking on crap when I upload an image to my blog. A full, freaking paragraph of garbage that looks like this:

This message was sent using PIX-FLIX Messaging service from Verizon Wireless!
To learn how you can snap pictures with your wireless phone visit
www.verizonwireless.com/getitnow/getpix.

To learn how you can record videos with your wireless phone visit www.verizonwireless.com/getitnow/getflix.

To play video messages sent to email, QuickTime 6.5 or higher is required. Visit www.apple.com/quicktime/download to download the free player or upgrade your existing QuickTime Player. Note: During the download
process when asked to choose an installation type (Minimum, Recommended or Custom), select Minimum for faster download.

What has been up until this point a nice simple upload is now spam upload. Here I was thinking I could take pictures during my road trip, and now I have this spam. GAH! I deleted the spam from the Saturn image, but it’s really got me ticked off. If I have to publish that paragraph of crap with every image I upload on the road, the blog will just look stupid until I can get online and delete it all. They’ve essentially fixed it so that I hesitate to send the images at all. As I said, GAH!