I didn't know...

[darkemeralds]

...why I painted my porch bright purple (the paint color was actually called Red Meets Blue) until I got a security camera--and a bright, sunny (albeit VERY CHILLY) day. Now I can enjoy my color choice from indoors, on my phone. 



 
The technology of home security is weird. I don't want or expect to catch any villains with this thing. Mostly, I want to see who's at my door, or whether my cat Graydie is sitting there wanting to come in.

But since it's brand new, I'm having fun turning on the speaker at night, saying, "Hey Boo-boo," and getting Graydie to look up at the camera. 

Comments

[lizziebelle]

Back in the days of answering machines, I used to call home from work and talk to my cat. I wish I could have seen his reaction!

[darkemeralds]

Oh, I remember doing that, too! Different cat, of course.

I can tell that the talking overhead camera has freaked this present cat out just a bit. Fun for a minute, but time to stop that.

[sporky_rat]

Alas, your photos aren't showing up.

[darkemeralds]

Gah! That is so annoying! Thanks for letting me know. I wonder how to fix this problem. If you have any pointers, I'd be glad to hear them.

[sporky_rat]

Huh!
Now it's showing up. They're not terribly large photos, they shouldn't be not showing up.

Hmm. Now I want to poke at it.

[darkemeralds]

I took two steps: first, I downloaded my photos from Google PHotos and re-uploaded them to DW. Second, I coded them on the HTML side, because the embed images function on the visual editor didn't work.

[sporky_rat]

That would fix it! Google Photos doesn't like to share photos, and oh my GOSH the old Rich Text Editor is falling apart.
(Have you tried the new Beta Create Entries page? It's kinda swanky. It doesn't have a Rich Text Editor *yet* but it's coming!)

[darkemeralds]

I must have tested it at some point. Will give it another look.

The frustrating thing abbot Google photos--which generally I'm pretty happy with--is that they show for me here, but not for others, so my entries look fine when I preview them. Sigh...