Chris D's dashboard

Chris D reported a problem in Feedly on November 02, 2009 09:57:

Something wrong with Yahoo Upcoming's feed in Feedly

Dear feedly chaps,

there's something odd about Feedly's interaction with Yahoo Upcoming's RSS feed - the link it provides to the original source looks something like this: http://real.upcomging.yahoo.com/event...
when it should be something like this:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4794451/

To reproduce, try subscribing to upcoming, opening an article in feedly and clicking on the title to launch the originating page in a new tab.

Is this something you're doing or is it an issue with the way upcoming construct their RSS feed? If so can ask them to fix it?

Cheers, Chris D.

Chris D replied on April 01, 2009 18:45 to the problem "Null error" in Schwenk Consulting:

I had repasted that API key at least 5 times, but you're right checking it in config and repasting it again seems to have done the trick.

However, it is now including my trigger in my posts - I don't think ping used to do that...

Chris D replied on March 28, 2009 22:17 to the problem "Chimp wants me to connect with myself!" in chi.mp:

Ah, maybe that's what was confusing - it looked as if I should be able to sign in with my openid and indeed it allowed me to do so but only as a guest.

Cataloging open ids would be a good idea - esp now that authentication providers are repurposing their signons as openids (e.g. flickr).

Thanks for the prompt reply btw!

Chris D replied on March 28, 2009 18:36 to the problem "Chimp wants me to connect with myself!" in chi.mp:

Quite possibly - although I don't remember logging is as guest intentionally or it being obvious that was what I was doing..
Presumably I should deny the connection request?

Chris D started following the idea "Add Contacts Synchronisation" in chi.mp.

Chris D reported a problem in chi.mp on March 28, 2009 17:01:

Chimp wants me to connect with myself!

I have a message saying "1 person would like your attention." however this message is a connection request from my own openid (via myopenid.com). I have no idea how this has happened, or why, or what to do about it - obviously I don't want to add myself to my own contacts list...

Chris D asked a question in Ping.fm on March 13, 2009 00:14:

How am I supposed to use spinvox 'normally'?

I use spinvox to take memos all the time, and would love to also use it to tweet, etc. However, once it's associated with my ping.fm account it looks like all it will do is go through this service and I can no longer use it for taking memos (which it emails to me btw).

Am I missing something?

Chris D replied on January 28, 2009 21:32 to the question "Why can't I find ASDA?" in Get Satisfaction:

Happy to help. I'm now glad I said I was suspicious :-)

Chris D replied on January 28, 2009 00:39 to the question "Why can't I find ASDA?" in Get Satisfaction:

Ah, yeah - that's fine for someone who's added the company, but not for the other person who happens coincidentally to come looking for it a few minutes later.

(Although it turns out what's happened in this case is that unbeknownst to me my *wife* added the company a few minutes before I went to complain about the same issue - so it seems there are use cases that don't rely on as much coincidence as one might think :-)

Chris D reported a problem in Asda on January 28, 2009 00:05:

ADSA Online Shopping Failure

ASDA’s online grocery shopping system randomly cancelled our order today without any notification. It happened after we'd added a couple of items to an already entered (and paid for) order and had received confirmation of the extra items. When we went back a few hours later (to add some more things) the order had simply been cancelled - no notice, no explanation. No help (whatsoever!) from customer service, no compensation and no re-instatement of the delivery slot, so even had we remade the order we wouldn't have received them in time for the family meal we needed them for.

Absolutely rubbish, Asda - appalling service and a total waste of time.

Won't be using you again.

Chris D replied on January 27, 2009 23:56 to the question "Why can't I find ASDA?" in Get Satisfaction:

Thanks Eric,

I was suspicious because it looked like a large company had somehow excluded itself from GS - I couldn't see it, or add it and there was no indication to me that a) there was a delay between adding a company and it appearing to other users or b) this particular company fell into this category.

I spent quite a while trying to find it from the search on different pages, and tried adding it several times as well - no other indication than 'company not found' and 'company already exists'.

Chris D asked a question in Get Satisfaction on January 27, 2009 22:19:

Why can't I find ASDA?

How come I can't find ASDA in GS.com, but when I try to add it it says it's already in the database?

Chris D replied on January 12, 2009 22:46 to the problem "why does firefox keep forgetting my passwords?" in Xmarks:

Hmm - I wonder if it's a work IT policy thing to do a clean sweep of my profile every so often...

Thanks Eric, good thinking - I'll check.

Chris D reported a problem in Xmarks on January 10, 2009 00:16:

why does firefox keep forgetting my passwords?

It remembers fine for a week or two or three, then one day suddenly: whoops! alzheimers!
Is it a firefox issue or is foxmarks synching removing records from FF's password db?

Chris D shared an idea in Soocial on December 21, 2008 00:53:

When is Yahoo Mail integration planned for?

I need contact synching with Yahoo Mail before I use Soocial.

Chris D replied on December 15, 2008 23:37 to the problem "Null error" in Schwenk Consulting:

Take a look at this: http://screencast.com/t/af182UnhuiO

Chris D replied on December 15, 2008 15:50 to the problem "Null error" in Schwenk Consulting:

Trying to reproduce it Zechariahs, but ping.fm was down when I tried yesterday - I'll do a screencast when I get time!

Chris D marked one of Tim!'s replies in twitterfon as useful. Tim! replied to the question "Why does Twitterfon just plain crash without explanation?".

Chris D replied on December 10, 2008 11:31 to the question "Why does Twitterfon just plain crash without explanation?" in twitterfon:

Happening to my friend too - suspect this is due to something in the twitter stream that it doesn't like...

Mend please!! Or at least provide debug info?

Chris D reported a problem in Schwenk Consulting on December 10, 2008 11:28:

Null error

Works fine on the computer I originally installed it on, but I just get a "null" error when I try to post from any other one.