Getting started

I've been thinking about starting a blog since I decided to spend the autumn in Rome.
With exactly a week to go before I leave I figured it was time to check it out. So far, not that good.
I want to put pictures in my blog so you can share some of my daily activities.
My friend spent an hour helping me learn how to make my photos web friendly and it's not working. Usually by this point I get a glass of wine and open a book. I have limited tech patience and all my techno gurus are otherwise engaged. Where is the wine?
I'm will have all this cleared up before I leave. I'm also going to copy all the
yoga shows I've been saving on my dvr - as soon as I figure out how my dvd player does that. I have the dvd +rw, not the dvd -r or +r but the dvd +rw. It's makes my teeth hurt just thinking about it.