After that, it was a matter of finding the code on flickr, the link to which they hide away in the top corner of the screen in grey text … and then I was all good!

I’m not sure it’s a case of me having to learn exactly what to do, because each site is going to have its own variation of how to embed images, etc. I think that I have to learn what types of things to look for which may help me embed something. Like how RSS links are not all the same, but have commonalities by which you can identify them.

After having this same problem embedding images into this blog (see here and here and here for proof ^_^) I think that this has reinforced that I need to learn the different ways of doing this, so I don’t end up fumbling around aimlessly. 

On a side note, I just realised that I didn’t have my ‘Pages’ widget on the widget bar and that therefore, no one could see some parts of my blog. Sorry about that, it’s all fixed up now. 

And then when I logged in again, it took me back to orientation island… but I was on Help island when the computer crashed. Do I have to download all my templates and other free stuff again? What happens if the stuff I got for free actually cost money, and then after I’d bought it, SL crashed and I lost the stuff that I had payed money for???

Oh, but now I’m back on the island I crashed at… odd…

I’m taking blame for not remembering what my password actually is, but I’m attributing part of that to Second Life’s rules for passwords - rules like not being able to repeat characters in the password, or having to have both letters and numbers – which made it necessary for me to make up a completely new password … which I have now forgotten. And, like a good, security minded person, I didn’t write my password down anywher either…

So I spent some time on the Second Life login page, looking for the ‘have you forgotten your password?’ button. After an extensive search (just to make sure I wasn’t blind) I resigned myself to the fact that there is no such button here and that I’d have to create a new account (*sigh* all that paperwork all over again). And when I clicked on the ‘create new account’ button, it directed me to their homepage… where I discovered the ‘have you forgotten your password?’ button! Great!!

So, I sent myself an email and followed the email link back to SL and answered the secret question, whereupon I was told I would have the opportunity to activate a new password account. Only, when I entered my secret question answer, it sent me back to the SL homepage. I’m still in the dark about what my old password was, I haven’t been able to create a new one, and I’m not logged in anywhere!

Now I’ve spent 45 min trying to log into Second Life. I think I’ll just make a new account…