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.
Blog Action Day is every October 15th, when blogger are asked to post something about a single issue to show our strength and conviction as an online community. It's a great way to feel connected to the greater good, and the participation of so many bloggers to support the world's leading non-profit organizations is something you can do to help, right now. By blogging today, you're supporting some of the world's leading non-profits and sharing your voice for change.
This year's topic is climate change, and we'd love to read your thoughts on the topic. If you participate, leave us a link to your post in the comments, so we know to check out your post!
Go to www.blogactionday.org to learn more, get a badge for your blog showing your participation, and see some ideas for your post on climate change.
Can't wait to read your posts!
~ daisy
The Amazon Conduit will be working again on October 15, 2009. Thank you to everyone for your patience.
Have a great weekend,
daisy, Team Vox
In my last Team Vox post, I let you know that we're aware that the Amazon conduit is broken and that we're working to fix it. Many of you want to know when it's going to be fixed and I'm so sorry I haven't gotten back to you about that sooner.
Unfortunately, I don't have an exact date to give you, but rest assured, the Amazon conduit will be fixed in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, I'm about to finish my latest book and I could use a few suggestions as to what to read next, so... if you don't mind, let me know in the comments what's on your nightstand and/or what book you think I absolutely must read next.
Thanks! :)
Going back to work after 2 weeks holiday sucks. Getting up this morning was a bitch haha. Ah well, can't complain too much as I have a job. Still, after sleeping in for 2 weeks, it reminded me of how much I love sleeping and left me wondering why the hell I'm doing this job haha. Hope I'm giving up my precious sleep time for something worthwhile, happy Monday people.
Some of you may have noticed that right now you cannot add books from Amazon to your Vox library. Giving people a glimpse into what's on your night stand is important to many of you, so I just wanted to reassure you that we are doing our best to get this bug fixed. I'll keep you posted.
So sorry for the inconvenience.
Hope you have a great weekend!
daisy
It's me again. Wow, I knew that i hadn't blogged for a while now but I didn't realise just how long ago. But then again, nothing much has happened since I last blogged, I'm still recovering though I'm much better now, aiming to play sports again by year end or by early next year. Can't rush it, just wanna be fully ok before I play again and to that end, i've been swimming, dutifully enough I guess though I could do better. I get lazy sometimes. Other than that, really not much has happened except the past few months came and went just like that. We're moving into September and I'm asking myself where the hell the time went. Ah well, guess it's a mixture of both the work I'm doing and the stage we're in now.
Don't know if it's just a popular theme lately but it seems like there are a lot of movies lately about people getting stuck in their lives, doing what "they should be doing" and not doing what they want to be doing. It's kind of like when we were younger and had just started working. Many people started working because that's what they "should be doing" or it was what "everybody else was doing" without really giving much thought to what they want to be doing, responsibilities aside. At our age now though, I guess people are still going through the same issues but now it's not about career and more about settling down and getting married.
After watching a lot of movies (I have nothing better to do with an injured back...not that I mind watching movies anyway) and listening to friends talking about getting married and getting divorced, I guess I'm just not at that stage yet. I definitely believe in marriage myself, I think it's a beatiful thing and people should marry for the right reasons i.e. they love each other and they want to spend the rest of their life together. There's still so much for me to see and do and so much that I still need to achieve that it's just not something I'm looking into. I'll be stepping into 30's territory next year but it just doesn't seem a problem to me that I'm not ready to settle. I keep telling my female friends that are getting depressed about becoming 30 that 30's is the new 20's and it really is kinda true. Things just aren't going the same pace as the generation before us so we shouldn't feel like we "need to be somewhere" or "doing something" by a certain age.
I guess there's just a lot about life that I still want to enjoy before I settle down. Life is fragile. A friend passed away recently in a tragic accident and it's reminded me that you shouldn't take life for granted. You shouldn't take anything for granted because you just don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. Appreciate what you have in life and enjoy life as much as you can. Everybody has regrets in their life. Just try not to think back 10 years from now and gnaw about what might have been when you can do something about it today.
It's clear to me that Voxers are some of the most environmentally conscious and creative people out there, which is why I wanted to tell you about Six Apart's “Green by Design” contest. All you have to do to enter is create a Green Badge with an earth-friendly design and/or message.
In April, I told you about a few Green Badges we created for your blogs, and said that when the badges reached 100,000 impressions across the blogosphere, Six Apart would donate $1000 to The Climate Project. Well, as of June 1st, we surpassed that goal by nearly two million impressions. Needless to say, a check is in the mail!
When we realized how many of you were adopting the Green Badges, we thought it would be cool if we came up with a contest that allowed you to put your creativity to good use and make your own Green Badges.
Like the previous badges, the winning badge will link to the One Million Acts of Green brought to you by Cisco website. One Million Acts of Green is a collaborative environmental campaign encouraging everyone to go green. One act at a time. The goal? One million acts of green because, as we all know, we’re more powerful together than we can ever be apart.
Each weekly winner will also receive a one-year subscription to MailStopper, a junk mail stopper service provided by Tonic. Plus, we will donate $150 to a charity in the winner’s name. (For a list of charitable organizations the winner can choose to donate to, please see the contest rules.)
Two runner-ups each week will receive an honorable mention, as well as a one-year subscription to MailStopper.
Plus, when the badges receive a million impressions (and we know they will!), Six Apart will donate another $1000 to The Climate Project.
Here’s what you need to know in order to submit your design:
- The Submission must include a positive environmental message.
- The Submission must be in the JPEG file format.
- The Submission must be 160 x 90 pixels in size at a resolution of 72 dpi.
- The maximum file size of the Submission is 500 kilobytes.
- The Submission must be accompanied by an email address.
- The Submission and each element thereof must be the original work of Participant.
Please email your entry to badgecontest@sixapart.com and don't forget to include your Vox user name and your email address.
There's still time to get your entry in for this week's judging! We're accepting entries until end of day on Friday. If you aren't able to submit by this Friday, don't worry: There's another week left in the contest. The deadline for submissions is June 25, 2009 at 11:59:59 p.m. Pacific Time. Winners will be announced on Everything TypePad; however, if a Voxer wins, we'll also announce it here, of course.
View all contest rules here.
GOOD LUCK!
