Tuck's making the most awesome ship model ever of the original America of cup fame. The kit comes from Spain and is short on details, with some missing altogether. It takes a real man to fill in the interstices. Tuck's the man.
Know what? We spent hours and hours today fighting against "the man." In this case it was TypePad, the blogging program that gives life to our blog. We discovered by chance the other day that months and months of our blogposts were missing one, two or more images. Images are the very lifeblood of our blog, of course. It took us over a day to get a response from the good people at TypePad as to what was up. This from Coleen today:
Ok, I see now. It looks like these images are missing file extensions (ie: the "jpg" part of "image.jpg") There was an issue associated with that that's been fixed for newly uploaded images. I'm going to trigger a full republish of your weblog now to see if that helps.
Tuck in his shop recalls Goomp and St. Jerome in their studies.
Of course that's ridiculous as far as extensions of our image files, which are consistently from day one of the jpg type. Then this:
The republish didn't seem to help, but I made a change to your account (put it back on the static publishing) and now the images are loading. So this seems to be an issue with the dynamic publishing platform.
Right now, your blog is on the static platform which means that certain features, like pagination and the comment feeds, won't work but the images should all be loading.
Whah?
We can ask engineering to see if they can make your images work again on the dynamic platform but I don't know how likely that is for one isolated case like this [You think?]
If possible, we'd like for you to re-upload the images yourself and we can give you 3 free months of free service to compensate for the issue.
If you'd like to do that, we can put your account back on the dynamic platform and you can re-upload the images.
Yes, of course. Let's get back up to speed. But can we acknowledge the burden of everything is upon Sissy? It's taken us 45 minutes to fix June 2007 alone. Now on to the previous six months of last year before that.
Update: Last time something similar happened -- we lost 29 images a couple of years back, compared to perhaps 100 this time -- then SixApart Chairman & CEO Barak Berkowitz sent a personal email saying:
"We will be extending your TypePad subscription free by 12 months in recognition of the inconvenience we have caused."
Too late to ask for 12 months this time since we've already accepted three. Sigh.
Frustration. It isn't the pleasant side of life but unfortunately it is part of life.
Posted by: goomp | March 01, 2008 at 08:39 AM
*sigh* Oh my! I wonder when they did the "change over" if the system then became "case sensitive". In other words if the file was loaded as "boatpic.JPG", but the image link in the post was "boatpic.jpg" the new dynamic system just doesn't recognize the name as being the same. Many photo programs actually save the name using upper case .JPG instead of the lower case.
Microsoft (don't know about Macs) doesn't care about "case" in the name of files, many other systems do. So, anytime there is a change from one system to another, this can be an issue. You may want to check with one pic and see if this might be the case. In other words, if you only change the case of the file name to match what you have on your file (which should be the same as what was uploaded) then maybe you don't have to keep reloading pictures...
BTW - LOVE the pic of Tuck in his workshop - that is totally awesome. Good thing you didn't show it to us last time we were there, beloved husband would probably have kept Tuck down there all night talking about the tools and his outstanding model!!! LOL.
Posted by: Teresa | March 01, 2008 at 04:06 PM
Teresa: You know (as Hillary is forever saying: GAK!) . . . I don't know, as far as what is really going on with TypePad, but I save all my image files with .jpg, yet only some -- a darned LOT of some -- disappeared. Some more even disappeared this afternoon as I was madly renaming and reuploading the offending files.
The "help" desk at TP is saying it has to do with being on their dynamic Beta platform (Who knew?). They can restore everything if I give them permission to go back on the static platform of yore.
Should I? Or should I stick with this darned thing, GW style and stand and fight?
Tuck -- and his spouse -- loved your comments re shipyard antics. You and Ken MUST come by soon for food and shop talk.
Posted by: Sissy Willis | March 01, 2008 at 05:04 PM
love the fine ship builder !
great photos...
sorry about the tech trouble.
the man must be stealing your photos for oil.
yes, it has to be about oil somehow.
a Rovian Conspiracy only Nancy Pelosi would truly understand.
by the way, wasn't it funny, to hear Nancy Pelosi claim the DOJ was playing 'politics' when it rejected the contempt charges of the partisan witch hunt of the Democrat Party?
reminds one, of when she said al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq, prior to the 2006 elections.
simply 'Clintonian'...
Posted by: hnav | March 01, 2008 at 09:17 PM
That would kill me; I don't keep the images I've uploaded on my hard drive. Maybe I should start, though.
Yours has become a cautionary tale. ;)
Posted by: pam | March 02, 2008 at 09:24 AM