apparently http://picasa.google.com/linux/ only works from the USA, for the rest of world

http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=14720&comment_id=128101

gives a workaround.

Ohh, that's annoying! Here's another workaround. You can always use a proxy by using the translated version of a page. http://tinyurl.com/mmahf -- k