Faithful readers, over the last few days, Typepad has experienced what we are calling the Siege of Typepad. Something overtook the web host and, first, made our photos hard to upload. Next, we disappeared altogether. Now, we've been waiting 45 minutes for a photo to post. So, we're giving up and using a draft photo that we had stored digitally and marked as "unpublished." It is the lights at dusk over Friendly Center. It is how we feel right now. After five years and three months, are the lights going out?
In Russia, during World War Two, Leningrad suffered an 872 day siege. To let people know the city hadn't surrendered, they played the sound of a clock ticking on the radio. When you go inside the monument, you hear that clock ticking. That beautiful metaphor for being alive and not giving up has always impressed us. So, if you are able to see the above photo of a parking lot in Friendly Shopping Center at dusk, consider it a virtual sign that we are still here. And, please know, we in no way equate a down website with the horrific almost- 2 1/2 year Siege of Leningrad. However, this Internet situation does remind us of how and what one must go through to not throw in the towel and how hard we must work to not have our data compromised on the Internet.
For now, we're still here, we think..... Tic, toc.........
It's a brooding kind of sky.
Yes, I can see you no problem, at the moment. Hopefully whatever the issue is, it'll get sorted in the next few days. If not, as long as your older photos are accessible to you outside Typepad, you might have to move over to Blogger.
Posted by: William Kendall | Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 10:23 AM
Tick tock indeed! It happens, we move forward.
Instagram went down for a bit last week, how could we function without posting photos of our food? the minutia of our lives in real time? Just fine apparently!
If Typepad goes all wibbly wobbly I like Wordpress, still free and very comfortable!
Posted by: Janis of So Cal | Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 05:22 PM