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Personal addenda from Jack Yan, supplementing his work blog, with posts on humour, politics, the media, cars and anything else that might be of interest.
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Time to close this chapter
Key to the calendar. Yellow: days when Vox worked normally. Pink: days when the compose screen took minutes or hours to load. Red: days when Vox would not allow me to compose at all. I’m sure most of you will agree that putting u...
Regular folks: a few seconds to download one page. Me: hours
Not sure how many hours it has been since Vox was capable of loading a compose window for me. I lost count. I no longer believe that deleting tags has helped, especially as it is now 2.20 a.m. and I had no access to Vox all evening. Please write m......
Down from days and hours to hours and minutes
Statistics: I have stripped out 6 kbyte worth of tags from the 260 kbyte I had yesterday afternoon. The file is now c. 254 kbyte. Pretty sucky for nearly four hours’ work, but we are talking about undoing three years of blogging here. I can’t ...
A Vox question for the Javascript boffins
Here’s a question for the Javascript boffins. When I began giving my username and password out, two people got it: Robin and Daisy at Six Apart. Daisy was able to confirm that it was nearly impossible to compose as me, even from Six Apart HQ. Robi....
Next theory, please
Interesting. Despite removing tags for nearly three hours, which should, in theory, bring me back to the quantity of tags I had before October 28, the compose window still took half an hour to load. I’m beginning to wonder if it was a wild goose c....
Untagging Vox
The compose window is still taking around a quarter-hour to open, but I am happy with Daisy’s explanation. I believe I am back to the quantity of tags that I was at before the problems began, and have been deleting a lot from the videos—since alm...
Daisy might be right: Vox tags caused my issues
Although this compose window still took a while, Daisy got back to me with a new theory, one that sounds very plausible, about why I had been having so much trouble. When each compose window loads, it comes with one’s tags (if you look at the s....
Random photos, because you never know when Vox will let me blog again
A minute to load this second compose window after a 12-hour block. Oh well, have some photos. From left to right: an old Hillman Minx in town, another red-light runner, and a giant strawberry. Read and post comm...
Still 12 hours to get a compose screen; is the bug spreading?
A surprising thing happened tonight: I could no longer get a compose window at my second Vox account. I have done some more neighbour removals (after the clue from Kimmie) to see if it made any difference. While that account is working again, I......
Doctor Who finds life on Mars, then confronts John Simm
Despite still having some compose-window blackouts over a few hours today, December 8 marks the day when Vox has given me 10 compose windows within minutes, a record. I’m still not sure which neighbour might be causing the ...
Is Vox fixed?
I don’t know if we can pronounce Vox fixed, but this is the seventh compose window this morning. It took about a minute to come up. I’ve had so many of these temporary successes getting the compose screen, only to find that ...
This morning’s third compose window
Hmm, is it fixed? It still took a minute or two for the compose window to come up, but that’s better than hours (or days). It came up by itself, without refreshes. Are more recent neighbours safe? I’m heading over to tell Patricia on her Faceb...
If old Voxers are wondering why they aren’t in my neighbourhood
Removing dead accounts didn’t work, so I removed all Voxers from my neighbourhood who have not blogged since the end of 2008. I made exceptions for those whom I know either personally or got to know well over the internet, although those folks who....
Six Apart’s Kimmie gives a clue
If you’ve been following the ‘Forced into it’ thread at my other Vox blog, you’ll find that Six Apart does have yet another person who cares! Kimmie responded today and identified that I might be following someone in my neighbourhood that has...
Free promotion for the House Industries guys
Only an hour to get the compose screen loading on Vox today … I had another tab open and it took about 10 minutes. Nothing much to blog—I am just seeing if Vox has fixed things. Turns out it hasn’t, though I am still won...
Looks the business—but isn’t
On the trip where I had to delay returning a rental car for a day, it had to be the most expensive, full-size model, didn’t it? This Holden Commodore SV6 is about as well equipped as a 1989 Opel inside (the electric windows did...
Error when logging out of Vox
Does anyone get an error like this when they log out of Vox? I wonder if this is connected to why I cannot compose on here without waiting hours or days for the editing window to appear. Read and post comments | ...
Let’s get pissed
Time elapsed for the compose window to load: four hours. I have just started another Vox account and the compose window comes up instantly (I will not blog from there as I refuse to use noms de plume). Someone at Vox does not want me...
The dog ate my op–ed
Anyone come across this bug in Eudora? Write an email. Add bits. Click save. Send email. Email that goes across is the version before the save. I am so pissed off right now at Eudora, which has generally been reliable, but this was an import......
Vox’s compose screen load time down to minutes from hours
I’m still testing this site to see how long the compose screen takes to appear. Right now: five minutes. It’s a darned sight better than the 75–120 minutes of last night, and the two days of earlier this month. I suspect Daisy, who is most Voxe...
Are some sites being blocked by Kiwi ISPs?
Folks, I have a theory. After asking on Twitter, and using two different ISPs in two different cities, and trialling different browsers, I have found that in New Zealand, I (and one other Twitter friend) cannot reach our Autocade site without t......
Vox’s YouTube conduit down?
While I can now compose on Vox (not, incidentally, something I could consistently do from Christchurch, either, so we can now conclude the problems were not ISP-specific), is anyone else having problems with the YouTube conduit? I know at least on......
Well, the guy in the Camaro costume is kind of cool
I wonder if Vox is fixing its problems. I have been trying all morning to get the compose screen up, and here it is, after a couple of hours (as opposed to days). The only problem is, two hours on, the inspiration for ...
The compose screen loaded? That’s a surprise
Finally. The compose screen has taken two days of refreshes to load. So if any of you are wondering why I haven’t blogged, that’s why. I can’t. And waiting two days for the screen to appear is a little longer than the two seconds that it sho...
Giant chickens
While checking for recipes tonight (what of the future of cookbooks?), I came across this one from Microsoft: Bill Gates might be able to afford a dinner where 800 kg of chicken was ordered, but it’s a little too extravagant for my...
What is C02?
This is as disturbing as when I began to see American publications capitalize after colons in 2001 (which is generally incorrect, according to US publishing professionals I ask...
Who is this ‘John Simms’ guy?
Linda-Joy pointed me to this article about John Simm in The Independent: Who on earth is John Simms? A bit embarrassing to have a typo in the headline. I assume he is also known to the fictional New Zealand locksmith–prime minis...
Google Toolbar fail: to get the spanner icon back, click the spanner icon
In case my Firefox 3.5.3 woes were due to Google Toolbar not being up to date, I installed a new one. Bad mistake. The new one is difficult to edit in 3.5.3, and each update took 20 to 60 seconds for the menu bar to stop being gre...
Twitter on Facebook: ‘0 monthly active users’
Wow, I guess no one uses the Twitter application on Facebook any more. I know I had signed up, but given that it stopped working today, then this does not surprise me. Facebook must be peeved off if it reports that the plug-in has a ...
At least when we have bugs, we act
I have written to the creator of the WP-Cufón plug-in for Wordpress about this bug, which caused some missing characters at the Lucire website today: It turns out that the ligatures (such as the fi character) are missing from the J...
