I really hate computers

Okay, in this case it's not computers, it's service providers I hate.

While I was posting T-pics on Yahoo, I noticed the announcement that they're going to get rid of their picture feature. Thanks, guys. So since the blog is linked to Picasa, I thought I'd check that out. They've got it set up in a kind of stupid way--it doesn't save *just* the pictures you post in the blog, it saves the pictures you post and then, for some reason, delete. So I had doubles, triples, even four or five copies of some pictures. So I went through and just deleted duplicates (and triplicates and quadruplicates), and now I see I'm going to have to spend hours going through the blog reloading pictures. I don't know if I can "reverse load"--load *from* Picasa *to* the blog. Probably not; that would be waaaaaaay too easy (and why isn't there an underline feature when I access the blog from the laptop and there is when I use the desktop?).

So I'm mad at Yahoo--who, btw, if you don't switch over to the picture service they're now going to use--Flickr I think--or Kodak--have set things up so you can only download one photo at a time. I've got *dozens*. I'm pretty sure they're all on my desktop somewhere, but that means going through each Yahoo folder and then check for the photo on my desktop. I can drag and drop to upload a series of pictures; why, pray, can't I do the same thing to download?

And I'm mad at Blogger for the way they set up the thing with Picasa. If I wasn't so yacky it wouldn't be such a big deal, but I've got nearly a hundred posts to go through and see what pictures load and which don't, and then re-load the ones that don't, then go to Picasa and sort the photos by date and delete the oldest duplicate... Yeesh. Sure, I've got nothing but time.

And I'm mad at all the software people--I think I've got at least three and maybe 4 photo programs on the desktop and I don't know which I can get away with deleting. One's from the Canon, one's from the HP printer, one's from Microsoft (the one I actually use), and now I think I have one from Picasa. That's a lot of wasted space.

I took the laptop out to the puppy pen this afternoon. The coin laundry across the alley from me has an unshielded wireless, but I couldn't figure out how to get to the internet after I got on, and I felt kind of guilty anyway, so I just closed it down.

I can't wait to see if the extra RAM makes that desktop run faster. Like--hopefully--lots faster.