See you in 2010!
Hi peeps,
I've had to corral commenting on my content behind a neighborhood-only wall. I've been getting too many spammers posting Viagra advertisements in my comments.
Cheers,
Tim
I'm wondering - anybody know of a way to export all my VOX blog content into files that can be imported by wordpress?
Thanks!
I can almost see how my ex can write off my son. He never bonded with him from the beginning and never has spent time with him or gotten to know his amazing spirit. Sydney is a different story...he KNOWS her inside and out and until the divorce you would have thought that the sun rose and set with her.
I don't know how you can look at this sweet girl and then turn around and ignore her. I don't know how you can look at either really and ignore them. Even with all of Si's quirks there are things about him that are simply amazing. He has an intellect that is insanely high for his age, he is wicked smart. He is so loving, creative, and full of life. I do realize he's never spent enough time around him to know these things...but he has his daughter.
He pretty much turned on the ignore button when we got divorced. It only got better when he was seeing someone. I don't know if they're still together but if past experience and current behavior are any indicator I would say they are not. She seemed to be the only thing that actually got him to visit with his children or call from time to time. As it stands now...no one has heard from him since September. Not a word.
Sydney and I have had a couple of very frank conversations about how she feels about this. Quite simply, while she loves her father dearly she is also seeing that every single time he lets her down. He doesn't answer the phone when she calls, he doesn't call back, he doesn't answer emails and he rarely visits. While it hurts, she has decided to put her trust and love in those who are with her day in and day out and quit hoping for a miracle. It's sad that an 8 year old has to come to these sorts of conclusions. I know how bad it hurts because I remember when I had to do the same thing...it just took me 10 more years than her to see it.
She wrote in her journal the other night and simply said she was not going to call him any more. She drew a picture of him standing beside the phone while it was ringing with a word bubble that said "I don't care" and topped it off with a broken heart. Trust me...if I could I'd beat the snot out of him for the hurt he has caused these two kids who have never done a dang thing to deserve it.
I just don't know how you do it? I really wish I could understand the mindset and maybe then it wouldn't make me so angry...but I just don't. I can't understand how anyone could be so cruel to their kids...I don't think I ever will.
First, we're happy to announce that the team has identified and fixed the issue with the YouTube conduit; you can now find and add videos from YouTube to your library and posts. As always, thanks for your patience!
The other news we have today is about a new addition to the Six Apart family: TypePad Micro, a new free level of TypePad that is streamlined for microblogging. We see a new form of blogging emerging that lives between the quick status updates of Twitter and Facebook and the long-form posts of "classic" blogging; TypePad Micro is designed to meet that need. You can read more about TypePad Micro in Chris Alden's post on the Everything TypePad blog.
A lot of the new capabilities we've added to TypePad this year were actually inspired by some of the best things about Vox: favoriting, member profiles, a dashboard to follow other bloggers, and easy ways to post content from other social media sites. But the things that make Vox different from TypePad are still there: Vox has always been -- and still is -- the best place for "friends and family" blogging, where you're in control over who sees what. TypePad, on the other hand, is built for the blogger who wants, no, craves, attention.
Do you have a passion or interest you want to share with people beyond your Vox neighborhood? If so, we'd love it if you tried out TypePad Micro. Maybe you've always wanted to start that obsessive blog that's just about waffle restaurants. Or want a place to share videos of your favorite band (Jonas Brothers, anyone? Anyone? ...). TypePad Micro's great for those topic-specific blogs. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think.
On the Vox front, our designers are working on some cool new themes (coming soon!). We'd also love to hear your thoughts about where we should take Vox in the coming year. What are the key things you'd like to see for Vox? If you've had a chance to use TypePad this year, what are the features there that we should bring over to Vox? And, if you're thinking big thoughts, how could we connect the Vox and TypePad communities in order to bring together bloggers and their shared passions? Your feedback is really important to us, so please leave a comment here, or shoot me a message.
And again, thanks for your patience as we found and fixed the YouTube bug!
~ daisy
As many of you have noticed, the YouTube Conduit is not working. I am so sorry about this; I know how frustrating it is.
The team is looking into how to get this fixed and I will update you as soon as I hear something. In the meantime, not all is lost... There is a work-around for posting videos.
When you're in the Compose Screen, just click on "embed." Ignore the fact that it says "Widget" before everything because you can definitely use this to embed videos as well. You'll just need to input the embed code from the video, enter a title (if you want) and hit OK.
It might not show up perfectly in your compose screen, but when you hit "Save," your video should appear just the way you wanted it to.
Hopefully this will allow you to keep posting videos while we figure out what's happening on our end.
As always, thanks for your patience.
This will be the one and only time I speak about this. I honestly wouldn't acknowledge any of this if it weren't for the fact that things have been said publicly to and directed to friends and family. For that I don't tend to just sit around and keep my mouth shut. So I will speak my peace on this issue this one and only time.
Recently someone who I have called friend for several years, trusted and stood up for many times decided for some reason that I was persecuting her. The only thing I can think the catalyst to be was something that (as I told her) didn't even actually have anything to do with her.
One day last week she decided it would be productive to sit around all day lobbing insults at me in the name of being "mature". When I did tell her that the issue in which she'd seemed to take as a slight against her had nothing to do with her at all instead of realizing that maybe there was some sort of massive misunderstanding going on it did nothing more than continue.
Had the juvenile insults extended only to myself...whatever...I don't give a crap. If someone wants to make themselves look like a raving lunatic I really don't mind. However, when you start accusing the man I care very strongly for of abuse when there is absolutely nothing to support it and is in no way true. Yes, I have an issue with that. For one, this goes beyond acting like a 12 year old with the insults...this literally goes against someone's good name, it is inflammatory and it is slander. I do take issue with people slandering those who I love and care for in the name of useless and immature drama.
So apparently if telling someone that their accusations are baseless and completely out of line makes me "pitiful" so be it. Personally I was raised to stand up for those who I love and are good to me and truth be told, whether or not this person realizes it...I have stood up for her countless times to others who have said negative things about her.
So anyhow, I said my piece about it at the time and had said no more. Today I see even more of the ranting and raving and talk that just is just crazy. Ex-amount was directed towards myself for absolutely no reason.
More than anything it smacks of immaturity, a need to constantly be surrounded in drama and jealousy. It's said about me that it's just so sad that I'm actually HAPPY that I have found someone who is good to me...oh right...abusive (which I and everyone else who is around him have yet to see). I don't know, she acts like she sure does act like one who has given herself over to the green eyed monster. I guess I should also feel equally bad that my daughters dress wasn't finished in time so Friday night when I was helping do what I said I would her dance teacher came and asked me to take a dress and try it on my daughter. Somehow her deciding to bring this was me "ass kissing" but I digress...hell I didn't even see the woman yesterday.
So basically my old theory has once again proven correct...those who are the first to start using the terms "pot calling the kettle black" and "people who live in glass houses" are generally the one's who are guilty of what they're accusing others of.
I wanted to say something about this soley because I've seen MY friends and MY family dragged into it...mostly not even realizing what was going on. She can continue bashing me all she wants because truthfully as far as I am concerned she has cut her own throat. I do not need to deal with toxic people in my life and I simply do not want toxic people in my life. She has proven herself to be a person who will turn around and knife someone she calls friend in the back when she needs attention. Well she can continue to live her life like that but I don't do that. I do believe in a little something called loyalty.
So basically, that is that.
Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.
We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you for being so patient.
