Experimenting with photos

I've received a few reports that the photo in my profile isn't showing. I don't quite understand the explanation, but people keep mentioning "remote linking"-- I know it has something to do with my photo being on the server of a free web host. There is a work-around, I guess, involving imbedding a photo in a blogger post. I'm going to try that and see if it resolves the problem.

As you can tell, it's not working. I uploaded both a ".GIF" and a ".JPG", and the profile page gives me an error: "Unsupported file type; must be gif or jpeg". Hmmm.