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
I needed some room in my freezer, so I had to thaw some meat. The space I needed ended up being the size of some beef stew meat I'd frozen. I defrosted that really having no idea what I'd do with it. The meat was already cut into one inch cubes and was very, very lean. That limited my options some what. I had bought the meat originally because it was marked down to $1.50 for a quick sale and I figured I could figure out what I'd use it in later, probably chili. As it turned out, I didn't have all the stuff I needed for making chili. I decided I'd give making a stew a chance. I hadn't made one in ages, since they really aren't my thing. I didn't technically have everything I needed for a stew, either. Not my usual stew recipe, anyway, which calls for stock.
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
LifeTouch managed to screw up the photos again (remember last time?). No idea how we're going to work that out yet, but I've emailed them yet again with proof they screwed up (yet again) and asking for the correctly done prints (yet again). At least I (yet again) ordered the CD with the original images on it and one of the images on the CD is the original shot before they messed it up. I wish I could stop throwing money away on these idiots, but if I want the actual school photos (which for some reason, I find that I do) this is the only option. They've got a total monopoly on Cobb County and no other companies are even allowed to negotiate with the county as a whole OR individual schools. These guys are such morons and I hate giving them money every few months.
That photo is outstanding. Sage did everything we asked her to do and her side of it was absolutely perfect. Unfortunately, that is not the image that came home. This is:
For refrence, you can see HERE what I actually ordered (pose 3). Based on her pose in the first photo above and the choices on that order sheet, it's pretty obvious they photographed for pose 1 (traditional portrait, head-and-shoulders), but cropped for pose 3 (landscape, head-and-shoulders leaning slightly forward arms resting (but out of shot) on a prop). The photographer screwed up. It's pretty clear that I had it written down on the order form correctly, since they auto-cropped it for the pose I actually chose. No human eye ever checked what went out the door, because any level of QC at all would have seen that image was wrong. They don't even sell a pose with so extreme a close up that the top of the subject's head is cut off.
I wish that this time and the last time I wrote about them screwing up so obviously were the only times, but they're the only times I've written about. Every single year, spring and fall, since first grade they have done something equally obvious to screw up. They have absolutely NO quality checking at any level -- from the photographers who take the images, to the software they use to auto-edit and auto-crop the photos, to the printers that print them -- their process is constantly screwed up somewhere and no one ever checks anything. I'm constantly having to mail them back things (at my own expense, I might add) so that they can send me the photos I should have gotten to begin with.
I'm most upset because this is the 7th time in a row they've screwed up this badly and this was the best photo she's ever taken. She did everything right and they still couldn't manage to not mess it up. She looks great and luckily I have the CD with the original image, but I still want the damn prints I paid for and I have a feeling they're just going to tell me no this time (see previous statement re: this being the seventh time in a row I've had to contact them about screwed up prints).
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! :)
