I simply couldn't take the torture that is Typepad one second longer. Please join me in my new digs. It's kind of bare over there currently but I'll fill it up again soon I'm sure. LOL!
I'm still playing around with different things so there will be changes until I'm comfortable with it again so please be patient with me.
If you have suggestions for anything you'd like to see, let me know. I like new stuff too.
This site will stay as is unless I figure out an alternative.
I have to be honest with yall when I say that another huge part of why I've been blogging less is that I'm truly sick of Typepad. I've been wanting to leave this platform for over two years now but my blog is so large that it locks up on every system trying to import it. Then...Typepad has the export process so crazy that the files aren't even in the form you need them to be in to do so without some serious man hours. Everyone I step to to ask to help laughs.
Typepad doesn't have any of the features that indicate it's 2014. There have only been a few improvements since I started using the service in 2006. I go to other sites and see cool stuff only to get angry that I pay for this service and don't get to do the same. Hell...free WordPress blogs have more bells and whistles than this old archiac Typead. I've only stuck in there with them because, again, it's a pain in the tookus to move. UGH!
I'd love some advice. I've started a new blog on Squarespace, which I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! What do yall think about my just starting over on that system and just leaving this here and link to it as an archive? Do you think it would be okay? I could stop blogging over here ASAP and just start blogging at the new place. Would yall go over there?
Would you mind answering a few questions for me? I'm trying to gather some basic data to use while considering some changes around here.
1. What is your gender?
2. What is your race/skin color?
3. What is your age?
4. In what state or country (if not in the United States) do you currently reside?
5. Did you attend college?
6. How long have you been reading the blog?
7. How did you first find it?
8. What types of posts do you enjoy the most?
9. Would/Have you recommended my blog to others?
10. What blog topics would you like to see developed into a book or movie?
11. Do you read the blog on the weekend?
12. Do you talk about the topics we discuss with people you know in real life?
13. Do you read the comments? Before or after you comment?
14. If you're a lurker who doesn't comment...why?
15. How can I improve my blog? What would you like to see more and less of?
***What time of the day do you normally read the blog?
So...if you visited the site this weekend you saw that one of my photos was pirated by Radio One / Black Planet and used in the MOST INSULTING WAY POSSIBLE to a woman who loves, cherishes and RESPECTS her husband more than anything in the world. Question From SIP
It was brought to my attention by someone who reads their site, Elev8, and this site as well. The person has been reading my site long enough to know that I do NOT give permission for my image to be used to ANYONE so they let me know.
By the way...again...THANK YOU.
So...I went to the site and saw it with my own two eyes and then I did some research and found the names and email addresses to whom I needed to contact with a tongue-in-cheek version of a Cease and Desist letter:
Download 07 On to the Next One (feat. Swizz Beatz)
By the way TypePad...this is cool and all but can you focus LESS on stuff like this and FIX THE DAMN BLACKBERRY COMMENTING ISSUE? I mean dude...we USED to could do comments from our Blackberry and now we can't and haven't been since you FIXED ish. And then...you piss us off even FURTHER by making a new hot.shit azz iPhone app.WE PAY FOR THIS SHIT SO REMEMBER THAT! WE.PAY.FOR.THIS.SHIT!
Hmmmm...if you download this...does that mean this is kinda like stealing? Um...Imma need clarification on this cuz I am NOT trying to be up in court battling Jay Z about his song. I thought it was going to put in a player so you could just click play and listen. If this is really a download...then this feature SUCKS. HEAR THAT TYPEPAD! THIS SUCKS! YALL TRYING TO GET US LOCKED THE HELL UP!
FIX THE DAMN BLACKBERRY APP AND LEAVE THIS KINDA ISH ALONE BEFORE WE GET SUED HELL!
Please don't send me emails asking me to forward you a recipe I posted on the site. Please utilize the Google toolbar that I have taken the time to include to make it easier for folks to find something they'd like to use as a resource. Surprisingly...if you put in the words SMOTHERED PORK CHOPS...it pulls up the recipe that I took the time to type out for you to try.
Again...I've had a rough day so yeah...I'm being snippy.
Thank you in advance.
The Robinator is waiting on his first $100 check from pimping the Google Ads on the site. He says thanks to all of yall who know who the true draw of the site is.
*BLINK*
SIP: I'm thinking I'm the draw dude. The Robinator done bumped his head.
The Robinator: Whatever...it's all me.
What say YOU? SIP or The Robinator?
I've just had the most EXCELLENT customer service from Rachelle of Designs by Rachelle! She did the re-design of my blog a couple of years ago and last night when I was setting up the site to have some new behind the scenes stuff put in I, of course, knocked something loose. LOL!
I sent her an email and she fixed it without blinking an eye in little to know time at all. I don't even know what in the heck she did but she did it and QUICK too!
As I have shared with yall before...if you're looking for a new website design or blog design, Rachelle is DEFINITELY the person to hit up. She does book covers, etc. Girl is mad talented!
THANKS RACHELLE!
I'm having a few things tinkered with behind the scenes. Please bear with me.
Sorry for the inconvenience and the geniuses at work tell me it should be up and running by noon. Once it is back it will look and operate the same (HOPEFULLY) to you so no worries that I'm changing anything that will affect Tiffany In Houston (witcha cheeky azz...ROFL!).
The chatbox should be working.
CreoleInDC...LOVING LIFE!
Well...I just heard from the TypePad Connect folks and was informed that the Blackberry browsers do not support TypePad Connect and won't for quite some time until they move out of Beta testing. Well...that won't be for a long time apparently so I had to disable it so that I can stop getting hate mail from folks who can't access from their Blackberry and old cheeky azz messages from Tiffany In Houston.
Punks.
Can't improve NUTTIN around here!
Humph.
(Stomping off mad...)
Whatever can I do in 2009 to top it? Don't be surprised to know that major stuff has been in the works since September folks...and I'm just WAITING till the stars are all aligned. :)
I never talk about my haters but I want to thank you guys PERSONALLY for the hits (you know I have your IP addresses labeled...ROFL!) because without you...well...let's just say...YOU MOTIVATE ME.
*Sweeping Bow*
TOMORROW IS A NEW YEAR FOLKS! WRITE IT DOWN AND MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Weezy: Say bruh...I googled black eyed peas and cabbage today.
Me: Um...okay.
Weezy: Why was your site like number 10.
Me: You sound surprised.
Weezy: Um...we gotta make some money off that dang site.
Robby: Who's WE?
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