She sees a camera, so she smiles automatically, maybe? Actually, to me the look is more one of resignation, or maybe she's thinking what a huge, bitter joke this all is.

Sometimes, rarely (one hopes), if the webserver is under heavy load or if the connections are particularly slow (happens periodically, nothing we can do about it), the posting thingie (there, that's a new techie word for you) just times out. And that's why sometimes entries just don't seem to show up. If the data reaches your database before the timeout, the info is there and will show up on reload. If not, it's just lost. We will haunt the Movable Type forums and see if there is a solution to this.

By the way, I really like your Pieta.

That woman is not smiling. That is a grimace, as in grim.