A Metaphor Gone Metastatic

The newest, shiniest, and hilariously-beta-shenaniganed feature of them all is here!

http://www.dreamwidth.org/openid/claim

Yep, claim your OpenID comments with your DW journal. Once you have claimed an OpenID account, comments left by that account (already posted, on subsequent imports, and possibly even comments left when you wander around logged in as it) will appear as left by your main account. (This is a step towards merging/linked journals, and it's amazing funtimes.) (I am incoherent with sleep dep. I wanted to post this before falling over on my face.)

This is the "mark was up until 3am and zombified coding and fixing the stuff we discovered that wasn't working" level beta, so if you're not down with beta shenanigans, hang back and watch the rest of us discover hilarious things like problems with primary keys that were a little too narrowly defined, or that thing with the userpics that xdawnfirex ran into. (That should be resolved. If you see weird keywords associated with comments, like you know you did not use that userpic AND YET SOMEHOW...!!, holler. This is the sort of hilarious fun that goes down in IRC over the North American night.)

It's not linked on the site yet, because it's so very new-beta; not sure whether it'll go through the betafeatures page or whether it'll go directly live after initial testing is over.

Procedure:

1. Make sure you're logged in to the home site for your OpenID under the correct account. For example, when claiming my OpenID comments as azurelunatic.livejournal.com, I need to be logged in to LiveJournal as azurelunatic, not as garnetdagger or any other random journal.


2. Make sure you're logged in to Dreamwidth as the correct journal (your actual Dreamwidth journal, not the OpenID, and the correct journal if you have more than one of those).
   Visit http://www.dreamwidth.org/openid/claim and enter the OpenID location of the account whose comments you want to claim. For my LJ, this would be azurelunatic.livejournal.com


3. Double-check to make sure that it's right and you're not accidentally claiming all your fannish comments with your work journal, unless you're into that.


4. Press the happy little button. Depending on what you've told the OpenID provider to do about Dreamwidth, the following may happen: a) blink and wham it's a message saying that you'll get an email in about an hour (you already told the OpenID provider to always authenticate you to DW), b) you'll go to the OpenID provider's site and get a message asking whether you want to affirm that it's you -- forever, once, or cancel that shit, c) you'll get told to log in/log in to the right-ass account, d) DW will tell you sorrowfully that it couldn't find enough information to get you logged in.
   • (If you have a custom style at LJ or wherever, this can sometimes fuck with OpenID authenticating right. OpenID depends on a little snippet of invisible code being in the right place to say, hi, it's really me, go talk to the right bit of LJ's computer to prove it. Fixing that is a little beyond the scope of what I know how to do, but swapping to a regular system style which presumably has that shit in place may help, if that's the problem.)
5. Wait for a while. (This wait may not be the full hour, but it's not immediate on purpose -- since it would be a ball of petrified yarn to untangle, it shouldn't be easy to do accidentally if it was not intentional.)


6. Get the email. Confirm that all of the everything is right. Click the confirmation link if it is.


7. Wham! Your comments as left by the OpenID should start to show up as left by your DW account that you just linked it up with. If icon information was imported with the comments, and you have an icon of that keyword on DW now, your icons should start to show, which is pretty spiffy. (Of course, in my case, the second time around when I was setting things up to claim my IJ account, I ran into Fun At 2am With Primary Keys, and went off to go tell Mark what he'd coded.)

This is still beta-y, and it is now Monday morning so Mark won't have a chance to actively go bang on deep code for a while (given that he has a day job until such time as DW can hire him back at supporting-a-family-in-the-Bay-Area experienced dev rates) but if you notice problems or whatever. So there is plenty of time to figure out how it breaks and notice problems. (I'm not sure where the best place to shout out about problems on this one would be, nor refinements/enhancements. Not sure that there's a central place for that yet, as there is no official announcement save the buglog.)

omg this is aawwwweesome. :D

#dreamwidth-support knows how to have fun. ^_^

http://www.sophie.hack.dreamwidth.net/support/see_request?id=5

This was to test a proposed improvement to the support boards, so there needed to be support board activity. empleh is my test account for boardstuff there.

( A copy of the support request, because a dreamhack isn't a stable place to link to )

So it turns out that not only is Aunt-Fayoumis in town for a conference thing, but also some of the folks from back home as well. So it was only reasonable that Guide Dog Aunt should declare a dinner party of sorts. She appointed me to do the negotiations about what day, what time, and were there any food allergies/etc. (fortunately no), and lo and behold, Saturday evening rolled around and there we were all in one place, plus Aunt-Fayoumis's slightly unhinged hiking buddy and the buddy's BFF from Half Moon Bay.

Dinner was fun. I learned that Aunt-Fayoumis's hiking buddy has an LJ (though I didn't ask her username) and has recently used it to incite Facebook drama (via crossposting).

Post-dinner, the family genes came out. Mr. Mandolin shared an anecdote from a Hawaii trip, about the TAB fellow working for room and board at the commune of aging hippies doing various TAB tasks -- the guy was setting the peel of a citrus fruit on fire, staring at it, and declaring it the solution to the energy crisis. Quicker than you could say "And what was he smoking again?" my aunt was up on the kitchen counter pulling out candles. Naturally there was some inquiry. "I'm proving that I'm a member of the family," she said, lighting the candle and squirting citrus oil into the flame in the classic manner.

This was the diversion for the fruit course. Everyone took turns. If there's anything worthwhile from the video that I took, I'll post it. [Edit: now with video! http://youtu.be/RO5m2jtB_to ]



Mrs. Mandolin still has sketches that Tay-Tay and I drew as kids in her songbook. Every few pages there's a chicken drawing. I grinned, pulled out notecards and pen, and sketched a few more for her. There was a running rooster, a little scene with several birds, and then the rooster perched on the keyboard. I also drew me sitting on the couch with Calico with a mouthful of my book. Hiking Buddy got that one.

I may wind up at the convention tomorrow for a bit, if I'm not entirely too exhausted. Stupid sleep schedule is stupid.