Emma in the morning sun, bloggin from my mobile phone

Emma in the morning sun
Originally uploaded by hussman60

This blog entry was created by sending a photo of Emma from my camera phone to the blog! Which i think you'll agree is a pretty smart way of getting a picture and text online. The actual method i settled on after some R&D was as follows:

1. Set-up Flurry on my phone (Java application from flurry.com that allows sending and receiving of email). This is using my Sony Ericsson K800i on Orange, although the network shouldn't matter for anyone else trying it.
2. Sending the email, with photo attached, to an inbound email address on Flickr.com. Flickr will store the photo in my account with the title as per the subject of the email. The body text of the email becomes the caption of the photo.
3. Flickr will, if you set it up, forward the email to your blog. Which as you know if you are reading this is on Blogger.com that again you have previously set-up an inbound email address on Blogger will write the email to your blog.
4. Finally, on Blogger you can tell it to send an email to notify an email address that a blog has been published. With yet another cunning twist i've set that up on my own domain to be an email list. That means every email address on the list gets notified that a new blog entry has been posted. (if you want to be on the list let us know)

If you hung in there and followed the process through you've done well. Especially if you are not a person who's spent any time with technology because it took me a few hours to put together a number of services to achieve the outcome i desired i.e. to write a blog using no more than my mobile phone. The final test will be once abroad and using my phone on a foreign network and it still works! Otherwise it'll all have been for nothing!

Regarding mobile phones, our UK phones will be turned off most of the time but we'll be letting you know of a local mobile no. when we have it. That means we'll be able to receive inbound calls without running up a huge Orange bill whilst away. As you most likely know a UK phone on a foreign network charges you to receive calls - but more of that later.

Hasta luego.