Too Young To Be Grumpy

I don't know what Google/Picasa are thinking. Hello and Picasa really look the part, but there's some serious flaws with them. One of these is the posting of images into Blogger using Hello. It works well, but there are some things that are terribly unintuitive. One of these is the ability to post multiple images into a single post.

The way you do it is this:

• Select the images you want and send them to Hello (easiest to do with Picasa)
  
• Enter a caption for a picture but add "||" to the end. This queues the picture to be put into a multiple-picture post. (e.g. "My Picture ||")
  
• Do the same for all the pictures you want in the same post, except leave the "||" off the last one.
  

Da, daaa! How ridiculous is that? What's all this "||" stuff? [Incidentally, that's the bar symbol - the vertical line on the back-slash (at least on my UK keyboard)]. Why didn't Picasa just put a checkbox "Part of Multiple Post", or something? Pfft...

Oh, and incidentally, there is no way to post as a draft from Hello - it has to go live straight away (at least, I don't think there is - if you know different do let me know). That's a bit crap too. It means I have to go in and put edits in on a live post, should I wish to change it.

Anyway, thought it may be of interest to someone who, like me, has been posting a single picture, going into Blogger, copying and pasting the link into a different post, and all that rubbish.