Here, listen to me rant about tech crap

Well, you'll hopefully notice that my banner is back to a decent resolution.
This is NOT due to any help from Blogger, though. Their same problem still exists. If you try uploading a graphic into your header, it will get shrunk. It will then be stretched back out again, making the resolution look as bad as if the picture had been colored by a first grader.
I posted my problem on Blogger's "help" site.
It got no answers from anyone.
I posted it AGAIN.
And it got one reply from a fellow blogger who said the same thing was happening to him. He couldn't get Blogger to fix the problem either, and had to resort to hosting his images via a third-party site.
A blogging friend had recommended that solution to me earlier as well.
I'd really hoped it wouldn't come to that.
I do have a Flickr account, but it's a hassle because the site frequently freezes or crashes my browser. Plus, Flicker ALSO shrinks the pictures when you upload them. You have to go back afterward and click on this thing and tell them that you wanted the bigger version. Then they give you the URL where the larger version is stored.
Then you click to change your header picture, and you select the "From the web" option, and paste the URL into that box.
That step made my browser crash once too.
If all goes well, you will eventually be able to save the larger picture as your new header.
It's a big headache and I hate it, but it works.
For someone like me, who enjoys changing banners often, this is really going to be a pain in the ass.
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