Just for the heck of it...

[hatman]

Ask me anything, and you will get an answer. Ask about me, ask about something you think I might know, ask... anything. Seriously or otherwise. Whatever you want. You will get an answer. In most cases, that answer will have something to do with the question. In some cases, it may even make sense! (I'll do my best, anyway. Depending on the question.)

You can ask me directly, or, if you've got a quarter handy, you can ask my buddy...

Comments

Re: OT - comment test

[pgwfolc.livejournal.com]

Do we know exactly what link character caused the problem? Is it any link from an OID post, or was there an issue with the specific link you posted? Or maybe a typo in the posted link itself?

Hmm, going back to the comment notification email, the LJ FAQ link you posted looks a little funny. The end (after the /support/) looks like this:

faqbrowse.bml?faqid=283&q=openid%C3%A2%C5%92%C2%A9=

And when I hover the mouse over the link, it looks even weirder in the statusbar. It's an a with a ^ over it, some kind of weird thing that looks like a CE merged into a single character, and then a copyright symbol and finally and =.

Re: OT - comment test

[stellar-dust.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

They didn't tell me which character it was, but I left a comment on the support request asking about it. Maybe they'll get back to me.

Weird. It resolves just fine in firefox when I append that to the url, though.

However, what they told me to do was repost the whole thing with parens instead of html (basically, exactly the same as the second paragraph in my above comment). I tried that as the OpenID; it sent me to the captcha page and then gave a posting error. I didn't try again for fear of re-breaking your post!

That *should* have worked, though, according to the support person, so .. there's still something odd with OpenID and links.

Re: OT - comment test

[(Anonymous)]

First OID link (http://mercurychaos.insanejournal.com/311701.html?format=light)

Second OID link (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=283&q=openid)

Another test...

[http://openid.aol.com/pgwfolc (from livejournal.com)]

Anyway, there's an OpenID tutorial here (http://mercurychaos.insanejournal.com/311701.html?format=light) and the LJ FAQ is also helpful (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=283&q=openid). Bascially, if you have an IJ, sign into it, then come back to LJ to comment, chose "more posting options," click the OpenID option, and enter yourname.insanejournal.com.

Re: Another test...

[http://openid.aol.com/pgwfolc (from livejournal.com)]

Anyway, there's an OpenID tutorial here URL 1 (http://mercurychaos.insanejournal.com/311701.html?format=light) and the LJ FAQ is also helpful URL 2 (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=283&q=openid). Bascially, if you have an IJ, sign into it, then come back to LJ to comment, chose "more posting options," click the OpenID option, and enter yourname.insanejournal.com.