I asked all the Dedes individually what they thought of Foreign Correspondent’s performance and whether we should go ahead with his proposal. Most of them couldn’t care less as long as it didn’t increase their workload. The one who really had to think hard about it was Mouse, as she does all the work around here. When she realised there was something going on, she watched Foreign Correspondent closely, but couldn’t fault him. He is a professional. Over the weekend he translated all the background information and recreated the blog in German, so he could start as soon as the Dede Committee gave him the green light.
Foreign Correspondent had also been watching Mouse and last night he approached her. “Do you think we could fix the problem with the images?” he asked “I don’t want to start posting when this problem isn’t solved.”
Mouse was taken aback at first. She felt he was making demands, despite him being the newbie. In her opinion newbies have to keep their mouth’s shut, just watch and slip into place once they had observed enough and found their own little niche. They are not supposed to make suggestions, not on the first day at least… Unfortunately, Mouse herself knew something wasn’t working correctly, but she pretended she didn’t know. “What’s wrong?” she asked with a surprised tone in her voice and a tad defensive.
“When I first look at a new post, the pics are crunched up in tiny little boxes” Foreign Correspondent described the problem. “I have to double click first to see them in full size and they don’t show up in the Reader either.”
Mouse admitted that she has had the same problem, but initially thought it was just a little glitch with her computer. She thought she had fixed it when she double clicked on it and the visitors wouldn’t have a problem. Indeed, she had asked some people and they were totally unaware of the problem she was talking about, while others said they had also experienced it.
“It all worked a breeze before, until the WordPress people made changes to the library module” Mouse explained. “I don’t know what I can do about it. I’ve tried virtually everything!”
“I’ve noticed” Foreign Correspondent answered. “Now I can’t even double click anymore.”
“I am at the end of my tether. I even sent a support question to WordPress, but have had no response yet. It might have something to do with the template I am using, maybe I have to change this.”
Foreign Correspondent suggested I should give him a lift to my office, while Mouse stayed at home and made changes. Then he could use the computer at work to check whether it worked or not.
When I went to bed last night, Mouse and Foreign Correspondent were busy skyping and changing things, but without the usual screaming and cursing. I don’t know if they have fixed the problem or not.
We will see when this post goes up.
It would be great if readers who have had this problem could let Mouse and Foreign Correspondent know if it has been fixed. Or if not, does anybody have an idea what’s going on? Your help is very much appreciated!
dedepuppets 
As far as my reader goes; both of your blogs are displayed with boxed images. While I admit that it is not what I like, I would like to point out that a few of the other blogs show full images….
I don’t know why…
I would do some more research on the issue and let you know…
(As a first step, I have started following myself on the blog – how ridiculous!)
Thanks Arindam.
I think it must have been a WP problem. Honestly, this morning I couldn’t see the image in the reader. I haven’t seen any of my images for quite a while. Which is really annoying, as they are such an important part. However, when I got back to the problem at lunch time, surprise surprise, there they were, little images to the side in a box.
I have a theory what happened now and might turn it into another pos tomorrow :)
BTW, it is not ridiculous to follow yourself. At least you know what other people see!
Wish I could help more, but you and Arindam are beyond my tech abilities. I have noticed the changes as well…once you could hover over an image and get a title or some other bit of info that added to the whole, but now nothing happens. Hope you are able to find a solution.
This is the thing, when you are on a free site… You are at their mercy. They can make changes nilly-willy and it sets you back a few days trying to figure out what’s going on. But I am not complaining :)