"Catfood" webcam server and album annoucement

[kitten]

That photo does look surreal.  I think it would be a good one to include, but since I can't see the album I don't really know.

[Moolah!]

kitten wrote:
 It's just the pictures.  What I initially get is the two albums.  When I click on either of them it indicates that it is loading, but nothing happens.  So I tried clicking on the slideshow, and it shows a black screen.

  I also double-checked to see if the monitor was working.

    Ok, I just went through the slide show. Didn't have any problems.



Several possibilities:



- jvascript execution problems?



- Or... because of me uploading new pics, your browser hasn't refreshed its cache yet, so Picasa is having difficulty displaying all the pictures in the slideshow?



Just my speculations...

You might want to try entering the catfood album directly @ [A href="vny!://picasaweb.google.com/Raging PoodleTalks/BestOfCatfoodWebCamServer"]vny!://picasaweb.google.com/Raging PoodleTalks/BestOfCatfoodWebCamServer[/A]



Then hit F5 to refresh all the pictures. Then see how the slideshow will work.

[kitten]

Okay, I tried that, but still no change.    I'll see what happens later.  Must get ready for work now.  What did you decide about including the taxi in Bellevue?

[Moolah!]

kitten wrote:
 Okay, I tried that, but still no change.    I'll see what happens later.  Must get ready for work now.  What did you decide about including the taxi in Bellevue?[/DIV]
 Yes, perhaps trying later will solve your problems. I deleted a few, I added a few... even as we were writing on here. That might be behind some of the display issues you and Lise were referring to.



I'll add the Bellevue taxi, as well as the 2 Virginias.



The fact that I was questioning what to add and what to exclude indicated to me that I didn't have a clear mission statement for this album.



Now I'm clearer on what I want to keep there.

[TehBorken]

 Raging Poodle! wrote:
Look at how the rain in Bellevue turned a mundane snapshot of a taxicab at a street corner into a work of art:
 
It's raining like *&$% hell here right now....

[kitten]

Same here.  It's hard to love the sound of rain when you know you have to go out in it with a leaky car!

[Moolah!]

Lise wrote:
 Are you located in Florida? Does this look like a Florida license plate to you?

 

[P.C.]

Nice collection, Raging Poodle.  You have some beautiful choices there.

[Moolah!]

P.C. wrote:
 Nice collection, Raging Poodle.  You have some beautiful choices there.[/DIV]
 Thank you. Did the slideshow work all right?



There're 49 in total and I'm done with uploading for now.

(There were 26 when I first made the announcement.)



Hope you got the see the latest pics from Hawaii, Atlanta, Boston, and Narbonne (France).



Didn't know there was snow in Georgia, but there it is:

[A href="vny!://picasaweb.google.com/Raging PoodleTalks/BestOfCatfoodWebCamServer/photo#5017325966124022626"]vny!://picasaweb.google.com/Raging PoodleTalks/BestOfCatfoodWebCamServer/photo#5017325966124022626[/A]



In terms clarity, color combination and contrast I think some of these are postcard quality.

  I'm also aware that there's an "artsy bend" to some of my selections. Just take that as a reflection of my own bias as a former painter/photographer. [img onclick=smile(this.src) src="vny!://www.thesmilies.com/smilies/innocent0002.gif"]        

[P.C.]

The slide show worked perfectly.  You did a good job selecting some of the artsier pics.  Good call on including the taxi/rain picture.  It's kinda backwards.  People who don't like abstract would be hard pressed to deny that there is abstract in reality.

[kitten]

I tried again, but still no go.  Just a thought, do I need to register with them in order to see anything?  

[Moolah!]

Hey for some of us reality is born out of the abstract.  

[Moolah!]

kitten wrote:
 I tried again, but still no go.  Just a thought, do I need to register with them in order to see anything?  [/DIV]
 No registration required. It's a public album.

Hey aren't you supposed to be working?

[kitten]

I've finished my first shift, and in another 1 1/2 hours I go back for my next one.  I work a four-hour day on a split shift.

[Moolah!]

My album is inaccessable today. [A onclick="addImg('icon/icon_smile_sad.gif')" href="jvascript:void(0)"][/A]



Would've expected better from Google...



I wrote to them. I don't know when they'll fix it.

It worked fine this morning as I was updating it.



My thoughts turned to alternatives...

I don't like Yahoo's or MSN's albums. Their thumbnails are too small, they don't have the features I want and use all the time.



I don't like creating new accounts all over the Net anyway. I'll give Google a few days to fix it.



However I happen to have an inbox.com account and just remembered that they also offered some sort of an album feature.



So I went to check them out. Created an album with my existing account and uploaded 4 pics.



Here's the intro I wrote but I don't think that it's showing up when you access it as a public album:

 [P id=ph_ai_desc]Here you'll find a small collection of webcams that made little sense to me. I think some of them are funny, some are abstract (ie. hard to make out what the heck it is), and some are plain dumb. Let me know if you happen to know a good reason why any of these cams were set up to be displayed to the whole world.

 It's @ [A href="vny!://my.inbox.com/photos/Raging Poodle/index.aspx"]vny!://my.inbox.com/photos/Raging Poodle/index.aspx[/A]

 You'll need to click on individual pics to see my comments on them. It doesn't have a feature like Picasa does where you can add your own comments.

 I consider this more of a collection of 4 silly snapshots than anything else. Main place is still Google.

 Let me know if you find them to be as dumb and silly as I thought they were.