Bug with my image hosting service.

My image host, www.flickr.com (which is a service of yahoo.com), has a bug at the moment. I don’t know if it was caused by a hacker or what, but images are being randomly switched with images from other users.

If you click on a thumbnail you are given a larger image, and you are also given options to see it in many other sizes. The images that are switched are random, not every single size is switched if the original one is… nor are the optional sizes guaranteed to be the image of the thumbnail.

I sent a complaint. One of the images that was switched was inappropriate, which is kind of frustrating seeing as I’m linking the images to a blog I sent to church members and family friends. It only effected less than 5% of my images, so you can still look at them with most accuracy.

You can see how one of my pictures that I linked to on this blog was effected. Its in the post “Trip to the highlands.” I was quite surprised to see it!

Anyway… for those of you who want real news on a post… today I’m planning on going to the historic district again. This time I hope things are open. Its carnival weekend, which means the whole city pretty much turns into one big water fight. Its pretty much appropriate to soak anybody at anytime. Young kids can pelt a 70 year old woman with water balloons and for some reason its acceptable. Its exciting!

I’m working on presentations for the Rydbeck family (engineer who runs the clean water projects), for their HMA (Home Ministry Assignment), which has been a little frustrating, but a good experience. I was expected to be given a little more freedom with the project, but I wasn’t. This was a personal presentation, which I eventually realized, and was glad to relieve them of a stressful part of HMA’s. They were very grateful for my help, which I learned to appreciate.

At some point I would like to work on a project more along the lines of a documentary, with more of a narrative approach, rather that a straight up factual presentation. Where the message isn’t laid out point by point, rather it can be connected by the viewer. In this way it allows the viewer/audience to get emotionally involved. I think this would be most effective, representationally accurate, and achieve a level of inspiration. When people are challenged to think, a message sinks in deeper.

I think I’ll have to do this on my own time, and give my work day to what they want me to do. Thats fine by me, I’m here to serve. Ok, a little into Will’s head, but there you go.

Love you all,

Will

UPDATE - problem was fixed, apparently it was a server crash that did something weird. The images are all sorted out, and i also posted a new one of the refugio on Cotopaxi (elev. 15,700 ft), which is the highest I’ve been on since the last time I was at the refugio when i was 7 or 8 years old… ok, enjoy

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