I hope everyone has enjoyed whatever holiday festivities have been going on the past week. Here's to a great start to 2010!!
I've decided to take on Project 365 in 2010. The last and only other time I've done this was in 2007. I had fun and needed a break but I think I'm ready for the challenge again.
In 2007 I tried to post my photo of the day each day. This year I'll try to do that but won't make it necessarily a goal to blog about the photo. I'll post photos with explanations at least once or twice a week to stay caught up.
The camera I was using in 2007 has since been replaced. It still works but isn't reliable after I dunked it in a river early last spring. So with the Canon S2 IS in retirement the Canon SX10 IS has taken its place. And just yesterday our new camera arrived - the Panasonic DMC-TS1. The former is the *good* camera with the super zoom lens. The latter is going to be good for hiking since it's water proof and shock proof. It can even take photos under water. It'll also be easier to have a camera with me "wherever I go" because it's smaller and lighter. Maybe one year when I'm doing this I'll have an SLR to add to the mix too.
So whether I'm ready or not my Project 365 starts tomorrow! Here's to a photographic 2010.
See you in 2010!
This past weekend I took some photos of the dogs playing in the snow. They were like little kids running around. Haven's happy jumping as she catches a snowball in her mouth.
Here Beacon's fetching his Orbee ball and Haven's "attacking" him.
After getting tired and hot from fetching Beacon decided to cool off in the snow.
Starting tonight another storm will hit us. It'll last until Thursday afternoon or evening! There will be rain, freezing rain, and snow so things will be a mess. Eventually we'll get a decent dumping of snow before it's all over.
Yesterday we walked to the downtown area three times! The first time we took Haven. We had to go to the post office. And there were ice sculptures being made along the riverwalk.
Here are some of the finished products.
My favorite part was the cow!! The local fruit/produce stand had him/her. The cow had a big green blanket on it with red garland on it. Cool! There was also a hot air balloon company that had a burner as part of their float. From time to time the big flame would go off and everyone would oooh and aaah. I also liked the old pipe organ that used to be on the riverboat. Someone was playing Christmas tunes on it as it rolled along (on a float).
There were a lot of people watching the parade. It was a good thing that we walked because it was crazy with all of the cars trying to leave. It was fun participating in some of our small town activities. You can see more photos of the ice sculptures in this Flickr album. I didn't have the camera with me during the parade so no photos there.
After a relatively warm November winter has decided to make an appearance. When we went to bed last night there were a couple of inches of snow already on the ground. The dogs loved it. They were chasing each other around. Haven was eating snow. Beacon was chasing snowballs.
Things were a bit different this morning. With snow up to their bellies the dogs weren't as eager to hang out in the stuff. I'm sure we'll take pictures of them playing in it over the weekend.
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 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,
