[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by RM

Are you blogging or flogging ? In all honesty, the extra large pictures take forever to resize, making this thread almost intolerable to those of us who deal with dial-up. Perhaps you could consolidate the pictures into thumbnails ?

absolutely correct Ron and suffering from the accursed dial-up blues myself I should have known better
My excuse is that I was having so much of a connection problem of late that I lazily in the case of the Seattle picture linked to their original despite it being far to big to display,knowing that this version of the bulletin board will resize so as not to upset the page format but of course that still requires the download of the original full sized file
In fact there are a number of easy methods to overcome this problem

1. use the upload feature to then show a clickable thumbnail
2. resize using a photo editing program (I have MGI Photosuite)
3. upload to a free photo hosting site such as
   http://www.imageshack.us/
   Or photobucket
4. resize using the photogadget freeware I have previously espoused

the problem with 1. is that I like to include a picture as an integral part of my posting rather than tacking it on at the end in a detached box
if anybody would like a copy of MGI Photosiuite please PM me
imageshack will actually give you the option before you upload of resizing the picture to a maximum of 640 pixels wide

I have now uploaded to my own site 640 maximum dimension versions of the two offending pictures
and corrected the urls
There remains the intractable problem of having to watch th videos in slo-mo, painfully slo=mo at that so one must be patient then when you event....ually see the "replay" invitation go looking for the cached version in your computer's temporary internet files folder or whatever an Apple calls it.