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.
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 have become so busy lately that I have to look through my camera to remember what we did this month! I empty it out after each month so I can post my blog! I am about 3 months behind on my uploading.
Lately, I have been working a ton of hours. At work, one of my fellow supervisors took a position elsewhere, leaving me all alone during the week. We hopefully have a good candidate so I can lighten my load sometime soon. Then I usually have some sort of doc appointment either for diabetes or just a routine OB visit and Miss IC has music and gymnastics. Sometimes, I wonder how we have clean clothes or groceries. I don’t know why I feel so much busier here versus when we lived in MN, but I really do.
NC started ripping apart the bathroom yesterday! We are w/o a potty upstairs and soon w/o a tub. Thank goodness for 2 bathrooms! We are shooting for a completion date before Baby Sister arrives (mid to end of Dec), but as long as it’s done before her baptism (Marchish), we’ll be happy! I think we are going to just replace the tub with a nice shower with a bench to sit on so I can shave my legs still. Tons of research online has shown me some beautiful setups that I am excited about. We have a Jacuzzi tub downstairs and we figure most people take showers most of the time so it won’t hurt resale. Plus, since we have a nice jet tub downstairs, why would we bathe in a normal tub upstairs? Granted our little ladies will have the downstairs rooms and bathroom at some point and it would probably be better to have the tub/shower setup swapped, but NC doesn’t want to move the tub upstairs (hehe, I did ask him!) and I don’t blame him. I honestly don’t know what I would do without a handy dandy husband. He really is deserving of the pedestal I always put him on in my mind.
Since IC is engrossed with the new Tinker Bell movie I have a little time to do my internet surfing/blogging. I always need a little time during the week to myself so I can check out my friends’ blogs and check my email. Our Miss IC has definitely reached the peak of her independence thus far. Wowsers! Her mantra lately has been- “NO, ME DO IT” and if you have already completed the said task and she thinks she needs to do it, she will un-do what you have done and re-do by herself. And I cannot comprehend how much her little brain can process, remember and repeat back to me. We love to see how she can think more outside of the box and correlate other aspects in her life with something she has learned or already knows. You can have a conversation with her and she loves to tell you all sorts of stories. She is leaving the baby stage and is a little person with her own thoughts and her own voice about them. She is quite the artist. However, we have noticed she draws things upside down or in reverse. I hear this is normal for this age, but it is funny when you have to turn her paper around to see what she drew! We also work on counting, ABC’s and the sounds they make and she loves to play Memory. I reduced the set so we only play with maybe 8 cards and she really enjoys finding matches. She is very excited for “her baby” to arrive and has silly faces she plans on showing her to make her laugh. There are 2 new babies at her daycare so the transition at home should be pretty easy for her.
I believe it is the terrible 3’s and not the terrible 2’s. She turns 3 in a couple of months and her little sweet, quiet demeanor has a switch now. Switches that can be turned on/off in the blink of an eye and you never know when that switch will be pulled. It’s like living with a hormonal teenager in the miniature version. It almost always happens when she is tired and frustrated, but has seen it happen when she doesn’t get her way. Usually some alone time in her room or a good rock in the chair will fix the problem. She lets you know now that “You hurt my feelings Daddy/Mommy”. Well, we are sorry that you can’t bring your ponies to the dinner table. Our big thing we have been working on is apologizing. She thinks you should tell her sorry anytime you have to tell her something she doesn’t want to hear or have any sort of stern in your voice. “You are hurting my feelings, say you’re sorry!” Trying to get her to differentiate hasn’t worked yet, but I suppose it’ll come with age. I guess I am happy she will apologize and acknowledge she has wronged someone and knows that people should also apologize to her if they need to. Our daycare lady is really awesome in that regard. Manners are always pushed and the kids are expected to treat everyone with respect and suffer the consequences when they don’t.
I am in my last full month
of pregnancy now! Woo Hoo! Time is flyin’!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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~ daisy
Another month has come and gone without a single post. When it gets close to the end of the month, it keeps bugging me and bugging me until I post something. I LIKE to post blogs. It keeps a record of our lives, in pictures and in words. I am especially happy now that I blogged throughout IC’s pregnancy. I return to them often to compare notes, but then feel guilty because I have not done nearly as much for #2 as I did for #1.
I blame it on a harder pregnancy. Or maybe it feels harder because I work full-time, have a 2.5 year old, a house, a husband, and was busy before I was pregnant. So I guess the pregnancy itself isn’t harder, I just have much more to deal with this time around. Plus, I have been sick for coming on 2 months straight! It is the worst cold I have ever had and I can’t seem to kick it. I am increasingly whiny about this because I never really get sick. The docs say it is probably me getting over one virus and picking up another due to suppressed immune system (from being pregnant). I’d like to live in a bubble until December. Keep your germs to yourselves.
#2 is progressing well. She is very active, so much more than IC. I need to stop comparing them because they’ll be different little girls, but I find myself doing it during every phase. #2 kicks me all day! Thankfully, when I finally asleep, I am a rock so she can’t keep me awake. She is probably fighting back from my incessant coughing, but man, she is busy. I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes again (week 26). I was lucky and got to skip the 1 hour test and go right for the 3 hour test. Drinking that orange sugar pop is disgusting. Part of me thought that it wouldn’t happen again, but I was preparing that it would so it wasn’t a shock. I had my first visit with my endocrinologist, my dietician and my diabetes educator. Right now, we are monitoring my blood sugar levels. I’ll email them after a week and the doc will decide whether I need insulin or not. Comparing my levels from last time, I’ll probably be on insulin soon. It is all ok-it holds me accountable for my eating and forces me to make better choices.
We cannot agree on
a name. It will be very interesting to
see what the end result will be. With
IC, we both loved it right away and pretty much decided that was her name
unless she popped out a he. I have two names I really like. An old work acquaintance (Sweet Pea, that’s you!
I love your name!!!) named her little girl one of the names in question. I kinda feel that if I use that name, I am
stealing it or something. NC has a hard
time if it isn’t a commonly used name.
It takes awhile to grow on him. We have a couple of months left to
figure something out! At this post, I am
almost 28 weeks – 2 months left to go!!! Where has the time gone?
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