There’s still no rhyme or reason on when Vox allows me to access my blog here. This morning, I got in a private post, but clicking ‘Create’ again, nothing happened for the next hour.
I wanted to share this opening title from Bullitt, after posting another one from Pablo Ferro on my Tumblr blog. This remains my favourite Ferro design. Though set in Chicago, only the skyline scene was shot there; the rest was in San Francisco.
I see ’68 as a positive year for a lot of design there, while ’69 began to look garish, particularly in fashion and hairstyles.
That’s a surprise. The compose window only took minutes to load, rather than days. Miracles never cease.
For your entertainment, two videos featuring a Q&A with Gene Hunt himself, Philip Glenister. The f words have been bleeped out, but they’re not words you’d expect the fictional DCI Hunt to use. And the real-life Philip Glenister doesn’t have very nice transport here. Where are the Cortina and Quattro?
Say, what gives? On my old Vox blog—you know, the one they don’t let me use any more for no apparent reason—I could embed a small widget (as can all of us) on the sidebar. I used mine to promote Lucire:
I got the code, and copied and pasted it in to the embed field. This is the code, which is no real secret:
<a href="http://lucire.com/2007/subscribe.shtml"><img src="http://lucire.com/2009/0906-lucire27-63.jpg" width="63" height="90" border="0" alt="Subscribe to Lucire"></a>
Here’s what results:
I tell you, this service is getting weirder by the day.
I don’t know why I bother checking Vox every day under the old Jack Yan account. It blocked me for a full 24-hour period over Thursday and Friday, and it is still down now, though I managed to get in a couple of posts this morning.
Part of me wants it to continue because I have it linked from a lot of places, and it is “my” space, rather than Lucire’s.
And since we said nice things about the second-generation Toyota Prius in Lucire in 2004, it almost seems inappropriate to post the following on the first-generation model (as I did to Tumblr today):
This is hilarious.
Because the entire planet outside the US does not have a November Thanksgiving Day, a tiny number of Americans, including The Hollywood Reporter, got upset that the Aussies (and, for the record, the Brits) aired Flash Forward’s 10th episode before the US.
And, inevitably, it got on to the Torrents.
Now these folks are pointing the finger at Australians for doing something Americans do commonly and regularly.
‘How dare those pesky Australians do what we do!’ they say, with their fingers pointed toward the southwest. ‘Gosh, we hate how they speak English and drive SUVs and big cars! Who do they think they are?’
Not only is this massive and rather funny hypocrisy, The Hollywood Reporter’s “journo” says this: ‘For the record, Aussies do have a Thanksgiving holiday, but it's in May and they don't really do it right.’
Australians have a Thanksgiving Day?!
I have lived in the antipodes for three decades and this is the first I have heard of it. I also don’t remember any story about the first white settlers getting there and doing a big feed for themselves and the Aboriginals.
Hey, I’d love to hop over to Sydney to watch their next parade in May with giant inflatable Ned Kellys going over the Opera House and floats in the shape of the Holden 48-215.
Not sure how many hours the compose screen took today, but here it is.
Katie Taylor (the current Miss New Zealand) deleted the pics I took of her—sorry, lads.
Given what Patricia told me with her issues, I have no confidence the Vox boffins will ever fix their bug. She’s been at them since before September. While Daisy is a huge help and actually cares about Voxers, I wonder if anyone else at Six Apart gives a damn.
Wow, a day to load the compose window. Vox is really dying.
Folks, I am carrying on Voxing. I had a few days on Tumblr, but it doesn’t have room for comments, nor does it have the privacy settings I want. Other platforms are a bit lacking on that, too. Maybe my habits have adjusted to Vox over the last three years, and I still like it (when it works).
After discovering that setting up an alias meant that I could blog on demand again, I have set up a new account at lucire.vox.com.
I explain there that I don’t like setting up noms de plume, so I had to justify it to myself by using it for work (specifically Lucire). And it was better for me to get lucire.vox.com rather than some splogger pinching the name.
I have “neighboured” many of you (my apologies for any accidental omissions), and hope you can follow me there. I will eventually rejoin a lot of the groups as well.
I may put my private posts on there for friends and neighbours, which is the principal reason I like Vox.
I will still keep checking in here, not just because of the spammers who will undoubtedly leave comments, but I believe I can take a Pandora’s box approach to Vox’s failure. One day, this blog will come right. Mind you, Patricia gave up in September when she went through exactly the same scenario as me, and Ninja still has to use Internet Explorer just to use Vox, so maybe I should not hold my breath. Yesterday, Vox began blocking my access to the recent activity page, and I heard from Snowy that that has begun happening to him, too.
If only everyone was as caring at Vox as Daisy.
In case you’re wondering who this new neighbour or group member on your Vox blog is, it’s Jack Yan.
Since October 28, Vox has blocked my access to this site, so I can no longer compose. It’s not wonderful when you know that some splogger has more rights than you do on Vox. In fact, here was how bad it got:
The yellow days are when Vox worked. The pink days are when I had to wait minutes to hours to get the compose screen. And the red days were when Vox blocked me from blogging totally.
This is akin to Vox blocking Australians back in August. The difference is they have not bothered fixing things. It’s also plagued Patricia Volonakis Davis, who used to be very active here on Vox (it got to her in September, a month before my troubles began).
Since I object to setting up aliases for myself, I could only justify a new Vox space if I did it for something—in this case, my Lucire property. At least having lucire.vox.com would mean stopping some splogger from stealing the name.
I experimented with a few other sites, such as Tumblr, where you can read more of my saga with Vox. And it is a genuine error: even Daisy (the Six Apart staffer who all of us like) could not compose a post when logged on as me. So we know that even inside Six Apart, it is impossible to blog as me.
I doubt that my team members will use this Vox blog, since we have a blog of our own. Some of my friends-only posts might still appear here. Hope to catch up with the rest of you soon. “Neighbour” or “friend” me if you recognize the name.
Only an hour to get the compose screen loading on Vox today …
I had another tab open and it took about 10 minutes.
Nothing much to blog—I am just seeing if Vox has fixed things. Turns out it hasn’t, though I am still wondering why on earth the three people who have been blocked to varying degrees are all oriental. A heck of a coincidence, but what are the odds?
For your entertainment, a video that Tanya referred to me for all the font geeks out there:
