I talked to Paul tonight on the phone and
something he said made me realize what the problem was with a script that I have been writing.
I took the last couple of pictures from my phone and sent them to a special mail address that is connected to a
Python script that I wrote. When it gets a mail it looks to see if it contains a picture and if it does, decodes it and copies it over to my images directory and then posts to LiveJournal a message made from the subject and body of the mail that includes the picture.
Phew...Programming is something that becomes progressively easier the more you do. It was a great struggle to get going with this but I think I'm on a roll now.