At first I tried hosting the image myself at panix and linking to it with an img tag, but that didn't work (the tag just appeared as plain text).

Then I tried uploading the image, which seemed to work (it did in fact upload to mydd.com), but I still could not link to it with an img tag (which continued to appear as plain text) ... presumably this is because img is not one of the "allowed HTML" tags.

Then I noticed that the uploaded image vanished from mydd.com.

At the moment it appears that some magic-possessing person has put an actual img tag in the diary post, linking to the image that I am hosting at panix ... I don't think I can do think myself given the current state of the diary software.

Not that any of this really matters.  It's nice to be able to put images in diary entries but it's hardly important.  

I guess the likely end result of all this is that the image uploading will be turned off for non-magic users, and perhaps the img tag in general will be turned on, which would be nice, or perhaps there's some reason img tags are bad (I could imagine a reason but it's not much risk with a small registered community of users).

What is awfully nice is that I could put up the diary and have it remain there rather than instantly racing off the bottom of the list ... small is beautiful for online communities!

Thanks for the great work here, Jerome and Chris.