The first email I have in my inbox relating to Vox (not called Vox at the time) was on July 8th, 2005. I was included on an email thread about the db schema, something I really don't know much about. Countless meetings, public and private releases later, I mark my involvement on Vox at well past a year and 3 months mark and we're finally launching publicly.

It's really difficult to work out what I think about Vox in a couple sentences. It's not as though new features have stopped being handed to me or anything really seems different on my neighborhood. All these changes that sum up to a really powerful, easy way to share things with people that care about you have been day by day for everyone on the team to the degree that maybe even we don't realize what we've created. When I hear stories about people that are self-proclaimed non-bloggers that try Vox and suddenly realize that this isn't what they thought blogging was and, hey, it's actually really useful and fun, I'm honestly a little confused. Have we really done so much to change how blogging feels to our users? I'm immensely happy that the work we've done has gone into something that changes how people enjoy and what they expect from a blogging tool. And it's no first for Six Apart as a whole or many of the people working here.

So, self-proclaimed non-bloggers, go get yourself an account on Vox and, for fuck's sake, don't add me as a friend. Find a couple people that want to hear from you more often and that you want to hear from and make them your friends. Write a post for your friends about anything that you did recently, include some photos or books or upload a video you took on your phone because you're savvy like that. Make sure they see it and show them how crazy-easy it was. Now, sit back and watch.

I was having an issue in Mac OS X over the past couple weeks where getting info on a file was taking forever and anything downloaded from within Safari was forcing Safari into a semi-unresponsive state where all tabs would cease to function. I intended to take it in to the Apple Store (my second visit with the MacBook) eventually but when I realized Spotlight wasn't working I started investigating myself. For some reason the Spotlight database had become corrupted and was slowing everything down so I took this quick bit of action: sudo rm /.Spotlight-V100 That'll delete your Spotlight index and Spotlight will quickly kick in to gear to replace the index fully. It seems like that's completely solved the problem for me.

Also, I was having a strange issue with vertical pastel-colored lines on boot after I installed the MacBook firmware update of about a month ago (I was forced to boot up by using command-option-p-r every time to get around it). That also seems to have corrected itself although I highly doubt that it's related.

I don't want to pretend that I've been blogging like there's no tomorrow but I've been posting to Vox much more often than I've been posting here. It's just... more fun.

The first Maker Faire was this past weekend and it was a million different ways of fun. Check out a photoset on flickr from both Saturday and Sunday. Also, makerfaire and makerfaire06 flickr tags.