So the story goes...

The challenge: grab as many pics as possible for a story, format them to a certain size and resolution, and stuff 'em onto a webpage and make sure it doesn't exceed 180kb. Sounds simple enough? WRONG!

Its perfectly fine when all your content added together hits 180kb just nicely, but is weird when your folder says you've got 320kb (what gives?). Apparently, its due to the thumbnail saving function (which produced a file that was almost as large as the folder it


So what did i learn then?

1. Hidden files like thumbnail files can be a real pain when you're tight on disk space. Best to disable it.

2. If you're doing something requiring pictures, make sure you take lots of them so that there's a good archive to work with

3. Cropping pics for perspective and focus helps get the message across

4. Anything is possible. Even at the last minute.

So to see the story for yourself, check out the pics below (from left to right then down).

[ed: another lesson also is that blogger can sometimes screw around with what you put in the post. on the blog itself all the pictures just appear as a single roll[