Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Just a quick update, and a question!

First, I'd like to thank everyone for the comments on the cards I posted last time! I was especially happy to see some people describe them as exactly what I was going for. I've also acquired a little statcounter from AtlastQuest to put on the main page of this blog to keep track of my finds and whatnot.

We managed to wrangle a little time here and there to snag a couple more boxes, but over the weekend had the disappointing honor of not actually finding the box we were looking for. It was posted in a public park, so it's possible the box may have been found and removed by a nonletterboxer, or that it may have been washed out of its hiding spot by the heavy rain we had Thanksgiving weekend. In either event, I still need to contact the box's owner and see if it was a matter of the thing disappearing or a matter of us just not looking hard enough.

I tried to make use of the mobile blogging I mentioned in an earlier post to share some photos of the railway bridge that was one of our landmarks, but I couldn't get it to work; it just kept giving me an invalid number sort of message. I tried it as both text and numbers (bloggr/256447) but it wouldn't go through, so I ended up emailing them to share today. Any thoughts? I use an iPhone, and Blogspot's information page says that I should still be able to post with SMS instead of MMS; I certainly didn't have any trouble registering my phone.



9 comments:

  1. never tried mobile blogging, but good luck!

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  2. No idea why the mobile blogging didn't work, did they get saved as drafts? Sorry I can't be of more help.

    On a positive note, these are two great shots! It looks like it was a nice location, even if you didn't find the box this time.

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  3. Hmm, I never tried blogging by phone, I mainly use my phone just as a phone or texter, nothign else, so no help there. :(

    I really like those pictures of the bridge though! From the distance, it almost looks liek the bridge has panting on the side or something. Probably not, but it's what I first saw when looking. :)

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  4. I've tried moblogging once and it's really a pain to set up and troubleshoot if there's an error. It might be easier to just blog via email on a smartphone x_X

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  5. I don't really understand mobile blogging since I've never done it myself... but those are nice pictures :) Sorry I wasn't much help!

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  6. @focusing; nah, no drafts, it wouldn't even send to blogger.

    @Tal Zahn; thanks! Actually, the whole thing does have a lot of faded graffiti, so it might be that you're seeing some of that.

    @Ada; That's what I was afraid of, blah. I'll try the post-by-email next time.

    And thanks anyway, Butters. XD

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  7. Did you ever find anything foul planted by a prankster?

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  8. @JRam - Nope, not yet! I've only got about five finds under my belt so far though, so there's plenty more opportunity for crazy stuff to go down.

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