The Picasa desktop client integrates with the Picasa web site. So, in the desktop client, you can just click "Upload" and it will be published to the web.

No idea why Yahoo services are more popular than Google ones. Like GMail, you get IMAP access for free. Yahoo Mail, you gotta pay for it.

Panzer, what's the URL? Next time I'm bored, might be fun to browse through some lunatic's Flickr photos to ponder what a fruit loop you are.