For some reason (but do they ever need a reason for the things they do?) China blocks Picasa, which went unnoticed by us when we first signed up for the account and started uploading pictures because we were on our VPN. Then we just couldn’t think of another good, free option, so we kept uploading things to Picasa. This has made it a pain for people in China to see our photos, and since a large portion of our audience is in China, we finally manned up and paid for a Flickr account with unlimited space. So from now on, all our multimedia stuff will be going to that here.
However, it would simply be a huge pain and take more time than we have to move everything from Picasa to Flickr, so unfortunately, our Photos/Videos page is going to look a little sloppy and be a bit tough to navigate. All the photos up to half of Shanghai can be found on our Picasa account here, which will continue to exist. Videos from the trip up to Shanghai will still be located on Andy’s Flickr page here. Videos after Shanghai can be found in the Videos set of our Flickr account, or you can link directly to them here.
We had found that Picasa was compressing the photos too much for our taste anyway, so Flickr is a welcome change for us. If you do view the Flickr photos in a fullscreen slideshow, we’d recommend clicking “Options” and unchecking the box that says “Embiggen small things to fill screen” because we upload only relatively small versions of our pictures to save on bandwidth, and they are guaranteed to look poor in fullscreen.
Apologies for the confusion, but hopefully now everyone will be able to view our photos and videos from the rest of the trip…at least until China’s whimsical web censors decide to block Flickr as well.
