Imagine my surprise and delight on turning on my computer this morning to find my inbox filled with comments and my site traffic a-rockin’! A moment of pure bewilderment followed, after which a sneaking suspicion began to dawn – could it be that the lovely Michele, whose acquaintance I made only yesterday (via her blog), had made The Iceland Weather Report the focus of her excellent site-of-the-day game?
Yes! It could!
So many nice visitors! Such wonderful comments! Thanks to everyone who’s dropped by so far and a big warm WELCOME to those who will join us later. And – need I say it? – if you haven’t yet checked out Michele’s blog, DO. It’s a blogland gem, and Michele herself has already secured herself a place in my heart by declaring that the existence of Joni Mitchell is proof positive that there is a God. A woman of heart and mind, indeed.
TECH.NO.FRUST.RAT.ION.
Boy, and here I was planning to post a really funny story involving a picture, that just begged to be shared with Weather Report readers. As loyal readers will know this would have been a monumental event, as The Iceland Weather Report has heretofore remained un-illustrated. Mostly because YT is severely challenged when it comes to the techno side of things – honestly, it’s all I can do to get those blog ring logos and whatnots up there on the sidebar.
So off I go last night, onto to the Blogger dashboard, into the help section, to try and figure out how to post pictures. Followed every instruction to a tee, downloading Picasa and Hello and whatever cutesy names they all have, and then sat there, gritting my teeth in frust.rat.ion, when it appeared that Hello only wanted to post the picture by itself. Without the story. Argh!
Now, I know that a picture is supposed to be worth a 1000 words, but in this case the picture really isn’t anything without the story that accompanies it. The story is really pretty funny – as, indeed, is the picture.
Anyway, up I get this morning with a lightbulb glowing brightly above my head – I will experiment! thought I. Post the story first, then the picture, and see if I can’t just massage the two enough to get them to work together.
BUT…
Imagine my surprise and delight on waking up this morning to find my inbox filled with comments and my site traffic a-rockin’! Which is fantastic, and also means that today is prolly not the day to start conducting experiments. But if y’all come back tomorrow maybe you’ll be lucky enough to catch YT with egg all over her face. We Shall See.
AND THE WEATHER IS…
As usual, freezing cold. Now here’s a little-known factoid: Iceland has the same average yearly temperature as New York City. On account of the Gulf Stream, which circles our little land and brings us warmth from more temperate climes. Last winter, f’rinstance, we hardly saw any snow. This winter, however, seems to be making up for it. Temps are currently –2 degrees Celsius, winds 8-15 metres a second from the north (windchill, yikes!) the sky is partly cloudy and, as usual, exquisitely beautiful. The sun came up around 11 and will set around 4 p.m.
Good morning (or is it already afternoon in Iceland?). Michele sent me, and I’m so glad she did. Love your blog! And I have actually BEEN to Iceland–though I was just passing through the airport on my way to Europe back in 1979. I still have a hat I bought there, though.
Hi. Michele sent me. Wonderful blog! I’ll be back.
Hi – guess who sent me? You’ve got a really nice web site here. Looking forward to coming back.
iliana
http://www.book-girl.info
I have actually the good fortune to have visited Iceland- though I did have the good fortune to have been there in the summer!
It really is quite beautiful.
Anyway, Michele sent me.
OK Michele sent me…and we won’t go away till you post that picture
Hello, what a terrific blog! I’m looking forward to returning.
And yes, Michele sent me!
Tommy, if it means you’ll all go away, I’ll never post it!! 🙂
Hello, Michele sent me.
Brrr, sounds very chilly!
I’d love to go to Iceland. I’ve only ever been to the airport, and for anyone who wants an excellent way to travel to Europe, stop in Iceland on the way. It breaks up the flights and the people are super super nice. My next stop will be longer, so I can get out of the airport and see the beautiful country.
The grand Michele sent me!
I live in Florida and it’s 78° I cannot imagine how it must feel to be in the negative! YIKES!
Good luck to you, I enjoyed reading your blog!
Lucy Jane
https://lucyjane.typepad.com
I will never again, as God is my witness,…live again anywhere, where the temperature is THAT COLD! I feel for you. And you can probably tell…i’m over from Michele’s!
flown over iceland
quite a few times, where’s the ice?
hey, michelle sent me!
-Mr. Haiku
Hi there! Ms. Michele sent me! But I’m glad she did. Same weather as NY, huh? I hope to go to Iceland soon. Enjoyed reading your blog and I will be back. Come by and visit me at my NY blog if you get a second.
All the best.
Hi, Michele sent me. I live in Southern California, and although I’m sure it never gets cold here as it does for you, I’m feeling pretty chilly right now! Have a good day!
Meanwhile I’m afraid to set up a blogroll, so I know the feeling. When I use Hello to post a picture to my blog, I usually post it first (sometime typing in a very brief comment saying that it’s a post in progress) and then go directly to Blogger and edit the post from there.
If that makes any sense. I like that Iceland has blessed us with Sigur Ros and Bjork. And Michele sent me.
Thank you Brian! Hopefully this means I don’t have to wear egg on my face tomorrow. 🙂
When in Rome, Michele sent me!
Hi there – what a lovely and wonderful blog you have. I will be back! I have not been to Iceland, but I know several people who have and I’ve heard such lovely, wonderful things about it!
Btw, I’ve found that if you want to include pictures and text in the same posting, you have to send the photo to your site via Hello first, and then go back into that post – through your ‘edit posts’ section of your “Dashboard” – and add in the text. You can also cut and paste the html – using the html editor instead of the ‘WYSIWYG’ one – to post pics. Certainly not the most elegant way of handling this, but it works if you’re patient. Good luck with your experimenting!! 🙂
And yes, I too, was sent by Michele.
Hi, Michele sent. I’ve technologically challenged, too, so my site is also image-less!
Hi Alda,
Yes, I was sent here by the wonderful Michele.
I wanted to comment on your picture predicament. In case you were unaware, you can host your pictures at a free host and link them into your blogger post. I use http://www.photobucket.com. (I tried linking to it, but Blogger is being a biatch.) Sign up, browse for your pictures on your hard drive and then just copy and paste the html code (that photobucket provides) into your post. It’s SUPER simple. If you need any help at all, please feel free to email me. I’ve been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
xx Jenny
ficklejenn@gmail.com
Michelle didn’t send me! but I think you know that already! What a wonderful thing to wake up to, you are deserving 🙂
Hi! Michele sent me!
Hi there. Nice to meet you and I’m glad I found your blog…I’ll be back, for sure…Oh yes. Michele sent me (surprise!!!)
Hello! Michele sent me! You know you’ve made it to the popluarity status when Michele sends people to you! Congratulations! I envy you! 🙂
Michele sent me. Groovy site!
Michele sent me to tell you that, today, a british newspaper is calling Iceland “a glacial Ibiza” as well as renaming your capital “Rockjavik”. If I still lived in London I would nip over and check it out. But sadly, it is too far from CA for any such quick jaunt.
Congrats on being “discovered” Alda. I knew it would only be a matter of time.
Louise
Thank you Louise! It’s you loyal readers who have made it all worthwhile until this point, though … 🙂
I’m glad to have found you via Michele. She sure does recommend sites worth looking at…
Maybe you’d to know that our (American)family used what I believe is the Icelandic word for fart instead of that there English word. Prumpa, is it? We just said prump. And sometimes we used kanski as if it meant perhaps. I don’t know if either of those are true translations but that’s how we adopted them.
My father had an Icelandic pen pal from an early age and fell in love with the country and language. He still goes back and stays with is old pen pal. The one time I went with him the pen pal’s wife photocopied every single letter my father had written since age thirteen and gave them to me in chronological order. Wild.
This is more than I meant to say but I have good memories of your country and just now I enjoyed your words. I shall be back!
Meredith
http://www.emzeedotes.com
it’s actually warming up here in omaha … but it’s supposed to start snowing again at any moment! someday i’ll live in warmth!
oh, and i’m supposed to say hello from michelle, who is too busy answering questions today to say so herself!
robyn.
spiritofone.typepad.com
Meredith, those are the correct translations, all right. That’s so funny! Thanks for sharing that story…
Hello! Michele sent me.
I’m really glad to have discovered your blog. I’m sure to be back.
I’ve heard of Iceland but I’m not really sure where it is. Sorry for the ignorance. 🙁
Hello, Michele sent me.
It’s 23 degrees here in North Dakota. It feels so warm we’re all wearing shorts and t-shirts. No flip-flops, though, because there’s still plenty of snow on the ground and sandals would be just plain foolish.
Hello, Michele sent me. I don’t know how to post pictures either; I signed up for ‘Hello’ but when I try to use it, it just mocks my ignorance and turns its back on me.
Hello Michele sent me. Iceland is actually on my list of countries to visit before I die–but preferably in summer. I hear its beautiful. 🙂
Oh I installed all that Hello and Picasa rubbish. I found it all so complicated that I don’t bother anymore and just use photobucket.com whenever I want to post a pic.
Great blog BTW, Michelle sent me.
Hello works good. It’s what is suggested by blogger. It’s fairy easy to use also. Stay warm. Michele sent me.
Wow lucky you with the 2nd day turnaround on being chosen. Do you win the lottery often too? ;0 Michele sent me. Have a great day!
Michele sent me…
I have trouble with Hello too, but my problem is that it keeps crashing on me. To include the pic as a part of an entry, try this:
1) Post the pic through Hello.
This will create an entry with just the picture.
2) Go into blogger and edit the post.
3) Grab the imgsrc tag (I believe) and just use it in your new post. I can send you a separate email with a sample (if you need it).
4) You can also try right-clicking on the image from your blog and copying the link to the image (this works best). You’ll have to use another imgsrc tag.
Hope this helps.
hello
looking forward to your pic
……….michelle sent me
Hi, Michele sent me.
Tag, you’re it! 🙂 Great blog!
Michele sent me :). I’ll bookmark you so I can keep coming back!
Hello Alda, Michele sent me!
Previous commenters have given you all the tips that I would’ve for getting Blogger and Hello to play nicely together, so good luck! And I look forward to seeing both photo and story soon.
Michelle sent me, but I’m coming back to see the pic 🙂
I commented earlier, but I wanted to point out that you CAN add text with your Hello picture–just enter it where it says “caption.” The only thing you can’t do is title it–I use the Blogger edit function to do that.
Hiya. Michelle sent me, nice blog! I have been fascinated by Iceland ever since my early twenties when I worked and becamr friends with a woman named Hrefna, she grew up there. She had a lot of pics of her home town and surrounding area, I loved to look at them!
Hey! Michele sent me…She’s lovely that way. Always the life of the party.
Iceland, ‘eh? I thought it was cold here in Utah today! I’m suddenly feeling rather toasty…
Enjoyed the visit to your blog! I am looking forward to the picture experiment! 🙂
By the way, Michele sent me by!
~Julie
My fourth graders are always frustrated by the fact that Iceland is green and Greenland is white on our classroom map!
Nice blog. See ya ’round!
Michele sent me.
michele sent me. But I’ll return all by myself.
Don’t mean to sound like a broken record, but…
Michele sent me.
Your site, however, is compelling enough to pull my browser back all on its own. You have a lovely spirit happning here.
I commented once already, but Michelle didn’t say I couldn’t come twice.
Here are my Blindingly Useful Blogger tips.
Make a new blog entirely. Call it whatever, hide it from your profile.
Just load your photos up to that new “scratch” blog.
I load up each picture twice:
Once res 320/320
the other
res 400/1024
for an example you can take a look at mine Then In my regular blog I link back to the photos in my scratch blog like this, but I substitue the <> with {} cos otherwise the comment will accept the html code:
{a href= “https://photos1.blogger.com/img/164/977/1024/your Pic.jpg”}{img src=”https://photos1.blogger.com/img/164/977/320/your Pic.jpg” /}{/a}
the first line is the big picture
the second, smaller, is the one that you will see on the face of your blog.
If you click on the pic it will jump to the enlarged version.
also i find it easier, inside of blogger, to use explorer instead of picasa to get my pics quickly
hope that helps you
good luck!!