On the same day I read that the next rage in blogging is using video to be your own personal news anchorman, I read that to have a successful blog I should compress and limit my still pics to spare the bandwidth of people with dial-up accounts.

You bring up a good point that I should probably clarify in my post. Anyone who is going to be a consistent vlogger will obviously be expecting an audience with broadband capabilities. Dial-up users aren't going to even bother visiting such sites on a regular basis.

I do think, though, that text-heavy blogs should limit the amount of unncessary graphics. And since compressed jpgs really don't have much affect on the quality, I think that is still something that people should use whenever possible.

Keep up the good work. It's good to see a blog that provides photos that would be difficult to find elsewhere.

Thanks, Joe.
I love a good photo and one of my main reasons for blogging is getting to share what I've collected.
There may never be a large audience that wants to see them.

Lynne Russell, the love of my life and the only woman in the world who could make me truly happy (well, aside from Barbara Rhoades), was the longtime, prime-time anchor on Headline News. Some days her hair was wilder than others. Supposedly when someone mentioned it she said, "my hair does what it wants. I just wear it."

As someone whose (remaining) hair is rebellious, that gave me heart.