Alas, poor Vox is
Sep. 3rd, 2010 07:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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(the locals will get that, or at least )
<== the famous signage of a local liquor store offering a permanent 10 percent discount to anyone who asks, "Hey, what's with the sign?")
In the midst of all the agitas of the past few days about the linkages between here, FB and Twitter (and do check![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cleolinda's post from earlier about how there's apparently a single Russkie behind all of this cross-stalking), I got this email a few minutes ago about a social networking site I'd signed up for ages ago and had almost completely forgotten about:
I'd opened a blog over there a few years back, around the time of one of LJ's more serious denial-of-service hiccups, just in case the then-owner SixApart decided we were all too much of a nuisance and a bother for their fancier MovableTypy selves. About the only thing of note I remember from the experience was checking out some random pages and discovering the fabulousjeanne_dark there (or at least that's her name here), and sticking with her as a Friend once the LJ servers recovered from the Great Pie Fight someone had gotten them into.
It's sad, seeing another creative outlet getting disconnected and plated over, leaving us more and more with 420- and 140-character forms of expression. Much as I've fallen for the Face over the past year, it will never replace the truer means of expression that this has become for me, and more recently for Eleanor, and especially those of you we've come to know and love through far more complex and cogent expressions of your lives beyond the rhetoric of "what's on your mind?"
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Weird day for me. Busy as hell until close to 1 in the afternoon, then relatively dead after getting back from Rochester (a relatively painless court hearing for a client of mine but following a truly bizarre one involving a Cantonese-speaking couple who basically testified to committing bankruptcy crimes in two different languages), but with a flourish of last-minute client/banking business and a return to my weight workout classes at the end of the day. Ebony is still off her feed, and Zoey, our youngest cat, also seems more out of sorts than her feline elders. I suspect it's because those two, of all the aminals, are the ones who've never lived post-litter without Emily in their lives every day. But then, Eleanor and I also fit that description, at least for as long as there's been an Emily, so that probably explains why we're a little verklempt right now ourselves.
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Off to check on the progress at 221B Baker Street. Amazingly, the DVD that shipped from the UK on Monday, with a projected delivery date of 21 September, showed up in today's mail. Now to see if it will actually play once the appopriate "brute force" (and that is, literally, the term in the online manual) has been applied to the zeroes and ones.
(the locals will get that, or at least )
<== the famous signage of a local liquor store offering a permanent 10 percent discount to anyone who asks, "Hey, what's with the sign?")In the midst of all the agitas of the past few days about the linkages between here, FB and Twitter (and do check
cleolinda's post from earlier about how there's apparently a single Russkie behind all of this cross-stalking), I got this email a few minutes ago about a social networking site I'd signed up for ages ago and had almost completely forgotten about:Important service announcement: Vox is closing September 30, 2010
Vox has been a fun place to explore, create and connect with your friends. But Vox is closing its doors on September 30, 2010.
This doesn't mean you have to say goodbye to your blog. We want you to make sure you can keep the great content you’ve shared on Vox, and continue to have a home for your blog. To help you make the transition off of Vox, we’ve added new export features that make it easy to move your blog to a free TypePad account, and your photos & videos to Flickr.
If you’re an active Vox member we encourage you to read the information below about what's happening during the month of September, and learn more about how you can migrate your content. There is more information at closing.vox.com.
I'd opened a blog over there a few years back, around the time of one of LJ's more serious denial-of-service hiccups, just in case the then-owner SixApart decided we were all too much of a nuisance and a bother for their fancier MovableTypy selves. About the only thing of note I remember from the experience was checking out some random pages and discovering the fabulous
jeanne_dark there (or at least that's her name here), and sticking with her as a Friend once the LJ servers recovered from the Great Pie Fight someone had gotten them into.It's sad, seeing another creative outlet getting disconnected and plated over, leaving us more and more with 420- and 140-character forms of expression. Much as I've fallen for the Face over the past year, it will never replace the truer means of expression that this has become for me, and more recently for Eleanor, and especially those of you we've come to know and love through far more complex and cogent expressions of your lives beyond the rhetoric of "what's on your mind?"
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Weird day for me. Busy as hell until close to 1 in the afternoon, then relatively dead after getting back from Rochester (a relatively painless court hearing for a client of mine but following a truly bizarre one involving a Cantonese-speaking couple who basically testified to committing bankruptcy crimes in two different languages), but with a flourish of last-minute client/banking business and a return to my weight workout classes at the end of the day. Ebony is still off her feed, and Zoey, our youngest cat, also seems more out of sorts than her feline elders. I suspect it's because those two, of all the aminals, are the ones who've never lived post-litter without Emily in their lives every day. But then, Eleanor and I also fit that description, at least for as long as there's been an Emily, so that probably explains why we're a little verklempt right now ourselves.
----
Off to check on the progress at 221B Baker Street. Amazingly, the DVD that shipped from the UK on Monday, with a projected delivery date of 21 September, showed up in today's mail. Now to see if it will actually play once the appopriate "brute force" (and that is, literally, the term in the online manual) has been applied to the zeroes and ones.