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Since I have now set up my new hosted WordPress blog here at www.perry-nelson.com/blog, this post is made just to test Flock's blog editor with this service.

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After relying on free, hosted blogging services since June 17, 2001, when I began my blogging efforts on Tripod, I've finally taken the plunge and registered a domain name and set up a hosted account at Dreamhost. My reasons for taking this step are varied, but primarily I've done it because it gives me more flexibility and power in what I do on my site and with my blog. It will take me a while to implement all the changes I want to make, so please bear with me as I experiment.

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I have finally regained my connection to the Internet this afternoon. Yesterday morning when I awoke, I found that my Comcast connection to the Internet was intermittently connecting but wouldn't sustain the connection. At the end of the day, I called tech support and they had me perform a couple of tests and then concluded they would have to send out a technician to try to resolve the issue.

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My son, Jeff, and his wife, Deanna, and my grandson, Dustin, are visiting this weekend from Georgia. Blogging will be light, because they are here to help me do some maintenance and rearranging of my house. I'm looking forward to how things will look after all is said and done. I'll return to my life on the Internet at the beginning of next week. 

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I have previously blogged about the virtue (as I see it) of being able to customize your applications to your own preferences. This afternoon I see that Daryl has made a plea for such customization of a feature in Flock, the alerts he receives from the Flickr Photo browser. He said:

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At least the "Blog this" function at Flickr enables me to post a picture as the previous entry illustrates, however neither changing the theme nor trying to post a small version of a picture instead of a large one works yet when dragging pictures to the blog editor in Flock. Despite this, it still doesn't seem as if it is the blog editor in Flock that is at fault. Here's why I think that. When I create the post, the blog editor saves a copy of the post on my hard disk. I can look at that .html file and in the version on my hard disk, everything looks normal. So it seems that something in the process of publishing the post to WordPress.com strips out a part of the code and therefore causes the picture not to appear. That is true with the two themes I have tried this morning, so I'm not convinced that it is due to the theme I am using. Fortunately, Erwan and Daryl are looking into this problem to see if they can diagnose what is causing it and perhaps fix that.

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I have changed the theme so that I can test whether doing so will permit me to post pictures here. So again, I'll see if I can get the photo of «My Newspaper» from my Flickr site to post.

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