Typepad Goes To The Spa

Strange things were afoot at the Circle Jerk Typepad yesterday, if you hadn't noticed. In the morning there was no access to Typepad blogs.  Allan and I sat here jonesing and commiserating via e-mail with Madame Levy.  Later, our blogs were back, but were missing some days.  That made us freak out a little.

Here is what our Typepad page looked like yesterday (click on the image to make it bigger):

You gotta love the green, yellow, and red dots that Six Apart used to communicate the status of their services.  (Can you see me rolling my eyes?) 

Things are somewhat back to normal now.  Except the photos I posted the other day have apparently gone to Mallorca for the weekend.

Of course, there were status updates every three hours or so, letting us subscribers know that the Typepad people were working very hard to get service back to normal.  Six Apart have become quite the PR masters these past few months.  However, it's all starting to get old.  I chose to pay for Typepad so that I could use a better blogging platform. 

If I'd been thinking of finding another blogging platform before, now I am sure I want something else.  Come the end of my subscription (plus the thirty free days Typepad gave me for earlier inconveniences), I'm out of here.  Unless, of course, I get something like six free months and a killer job at Six Apart for this latest fiasco. 

Oh, and in the spirit of the fast-approaching winter solstice, I've added a sprig of holly to my banner.  Of course, in typical Typepad banner fashion, a few pixels get cut off.  (I'm rolling my eyes again).  No, I'm NOT a complete idiot.  Yes, I tried to make a nice holiday banner (and I'll admit, Allan did most of it for me while I cooked the kangaroo).

You can view the banner as I intended it to look here. 

Have a great weekend. 

Edit:  Thanks for all your kind get-well comments the other day.  As you can see, I'm back in business. 

Comments

[Alain]

Solution ouvrir ses droits chez un hébergeur PHP ( général ), c'est pas très cher et utiliser dotclear ou joomla dont tu bidouilleras le css et le template à ta guise.
C'est à mon sens la meilleur solution, la moins cher et la plus efficace.

[cmhl]

I love the holly banner as you intended it!

[barb]

That is a very nice banner and I see you got it up on your regular display anyway! Nice touch. I redesigned my own banner recently but it hasn't displayed yet either. I get all these little messages saying Photo is being repaired or renovated or something over the weekend. Whatever.

[Ruling Passion]

Banner looks great, but love to hear about what kangaroo tastes like- similar to chicken??

[Another Alison]

I'm seconding "Ruling Passion's" question: What *does* kanagaroo taste like?

[Margaret]

Is your typepad fixed? Mine was missing my most recent posts, then some of my photos disappeared, and now no one can comment on the posts that are there. Not fun.