Zane Selvans's dashboard

Zane Selvans started following the question "Is there a way to get a badge that does not show my @ replies?" in Twitter.

Zane Selvans started following the question "Twitter badge: can I exclude my own direct messages?" in Twitter.

Zane Selvans replied on August 11, 2009 19:16 to the idea "No blog URL in profile?!" in IntenseDebate:

I realize that one can link to their blog from within the ID profile information, but I certainly want control over what URL my name links to when I make an ID comment. Personally, I want it to be my canonical OpenID URL (http://zaneselvans.org) and not my ID profile page.

I re-installed ID after the recent 2.4 release of the WP plugin, but almost immediately uninstalled it when I found it was impossible to control where that URL points.

Zane Selvans started following the idea "No blog URL in profile?!" in IntenseDebate.

Zane Selvans started following the idea "ID should allow Identicon support for unregistered users." in IntenseDebate.

Zane Selvans replied on August 11, 2009 19:12 to the question "Disable viewign of profile info?" in IntenseDebate:

I would also like this option. The pop-up on mouse-over information is jarring and feels cluttered. If it were on-click, it might be acceptable (if there were some kind of visual cue telling the user to "click here for more information on this person".

Zane Selvans started following the question "Disable viewign of profile info?" in IntenseDebate.

Zane Selvans started following the problem "Comment is in the ID system, but not on my blog post." in IntenseDebate.

Zane Selvans replied on May 12, 2009 23:26 to the problem "My response to a previously unapproved comment is lost in limbo." in IntenseDebate:

Ugh, but now my once visible reply has vanished into the ether once again... I'm thinking this might result in uninstallation...

Zane Selvans replied on May 12, 2009 20:04 to the problem "My response to a previously unapproved comment is lost in limbo." in IntenseDebate:

And now, interestingly, immediately upon my submitting a (new) response to the same post, using the form at the bottom of the page on the blog itself (instead of via e-mail, or the back-end interface), not only does my new response appear, but the old one as well, so it seems as if there was something that wasn't getting updated, or was cached... which was refreshed when the new response was made.

Zane Selvans reported a problem in IntenseDebate on May 12, 2009 19:07:

My response to a previously unapproved comment is lost in limbo.

Somebody commented on my blog, and I approved their comment from somewhere within the WP interface. Then I responded to their comment via e-mail. Currently, their comment appears on the post, and my reply does not. From within both WP and ID I can see both their response and my reply, and the comments count on the post actually says (2), but my reply is nowhere to be seen.

If I deactivate ID, both appear, as expected. I'm running ID 2.1.1 on WP 2.7.1. I deactivated the ID plugin, and renamed its plugin directory, installed the IDclearsettings.php plugin, activated it, deactivated it, and renamed and re-activated the ID plugin, and ended right back where I started.

The post and comments can be seen here:

http://amateurearthling.org/2009/05/1...

Zane Selvans asked a question in TweetDeck on April 14, 2009 22:40:

TweetDeck missing some Facebook status updates

For some reason, TweetDeck seems to be missing a large fraction of my friends' status updates. Some of them get through, and others don't. I have no idea why, or what the logic is. It seems like it prefers to get updates from some friends more than others. Is this Tweetdeck's problem, or is Facebook being stingy with their datastream?

A comment on the problem "IntenseDebate Notifications making a mess of my contacts" in Soocial:

Sorry, didn't mean to sound so alarming! – Zane Selvans, on March 06, 2009 20:55

Zane Selvans reported a problem in Soocial on March 06, 2009 19:10:

IntenseDebate Notifications making a mess of my contacts

I get e-mails from Intense Debate (a blog comment managing system) when comments are made on my blog, and I can moderate by replying with "approve", or "spam", etc. Each of these e-mails comes from a unique (machine generated) e-mail address. GMail appears to be autoharvesting these addresses (to which I have replied) and adding them to my address book, which then Soocial picks up on, and tries to sync. It makes a mess though, because there are potentially a lot of different e-mail addresses. It would be good if one could choose patterns to ignore (like... anyone named: IntenseDebate Notifications). Other than this example (so far) I do want Soocial to pick up the suggested GMail contacts.

Zane Selvans replied on February 21, 2009 22:44 to the problem ""Upload Failed" error message when successfully updating annotations at Flickr" in PictureSync:

I just re-uploaded a batch of newly geotagged photos (getting the location from Google Earth), hoping to update the geotag annotations within Flickr, and got the failed message. Additionally, the photos are still listed on Flickr not being geotagged, in the "stats" section, despite having lat/lon information in the keywords, and having the "geotagged" tag associated with them. So something isn't getting updated on Flickr - but maybe that's an internal Flickr issue, since the "stats" are relatively new.

Zane Selvans replied on February 21, 2009 09:54 to the question "Data corruption: navigation between fullscreen annotation (command+0) applies metadata to wrong photo" in PictureSync:

advancing through the list of photos in fullscreen mode doesn't seem to go linearly either - it will skip around in the list. Unfortunately, the thumbnails are so small in the list not in fullscreen mode, that I end up going back and forth, trying to figure out exactly which image I'm looking at, which is a usability fail.

Zane Selvans started following the question "Data corruption: navigation between fullscreen annotation (command+0) applies metadata to wrong photo" in PictureSync.

Zane Selvans replied on February 21, 2009 09:43 to the problem "single quote character in annotation causes error" in PictureSync:

Okay, it turns out that this is not the result of single quote characters at all. I've just had it happen after opening a batch of photos fresh, with no annotations whatsoever. The error message appeared as soon as I selected one of the photos in the list, and in fact, between the double quotes in the error message, there was no character of any kind apparent. It says:

Applescript Error
Can’t make "" into type integer. (-1700)

There don't seem to be any concrete negative consequences of this error, but it's still disconcerting. It happens quite frequently (dozens of times over the course of editing annotations on 26 pictures), but it doesn't happen repeatably, say, upon selecting the same photo. I'm e-mailing the log file.

Zane Selvans replied on February 13, 2009 18:40 to the idea "I should be able to reduce the frequency of syncs." in Soocial:

I guess I feel like the borders between local/remote client/server are getting pretty fuzzy (as indicated by my initial confusion as to where I would even go to set the preference I was thinking of...). My phone/laptop/webapps are all really just windows into the same pool of data and functionality. Ideally I would never have to think about where the data or functionality "actually" resides (and yet would be confident that my privacy/sharing preferences were being respected). I think most non-technical users (over the age of 30...) have very little conception of these divisions at all. It's just "the computer" or "the web", and ideally it will just be "my addressbook", which is everywhere the same, and always accessible.

Zane Selvans replied on February 11, 2009 19:42 to the problem "Wordpress plugin perpetually asking me to log in and sync." in IntenseDebate:

This but gets triggered each time I edit my profile page. I can be logged in to ID (i.e. I see the "synchronizing as Zane Selvans" message) just fine, and then, if I change any other field on my profile page and hit submit, I get logged out of ID, and the "sign in to sync" message appears at the top of every page. This means that to edit my profile and continue synchronizing comments, I'd always have to submit my profile twice - once to make the change I wanted to make (and incidentally get signed out of ID) and once to sign back in to ID. Which is obviously not how it's supposed to work. But like I said, it's conceivable that this is some kind of conflict with the DISO Extended Profile plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/e...