This is what happens when Facebook’s “Superpoke!” application doesn’t work right:
That’s right, you get the Fail Chicken. I can be reached on Facebook as Ginny Hussein Gibbs, and I’ll throw a chicken, Obama, or some other wacky thing at you if you like.
Hope you don’t encounter the Fail Chicken.
Now listening to the beginning of WWDTM, and later on the celebrity guest is Leonard Nimoy. Can I get a W00t?!?!?!
Apparently, Mr Nimoy did our favorite news quiz the honor of showing up in person, causing the staff much joy and making the dreams of at least one total dork come true (that would be host Peter Sagal).
There’s an entire set of photos at Flickr, but this is the one that makes me go “AWWWWWWwwww!”
As Peter noted just seconds ago, if you don’t know who Nimoy is or why Sagal is so absurdly pleased about his appearance on WWDTM, “then you are dead to me.” The tenor of the show seems to follow the lead of the title of the Flickr set, otherwise known as LEONARD NIMOY OMG OMG.
Nimoy also just noted that one of the current candidates for President encountered him at a political event some time ago and flashed the Vulcan salute with a smile. He noted dryly, “It was not John McCain.”
Purrrrrrrrrr…
UPDATE: GRRR! Uploading a photo direct from my iPhone via the WP plugin strips out some but not all angle brackets, breaking the img tags. Sending a photo to Flickr via email, which re-directs to the blog with pre-formatted div tags, also strips angle brackets. Thirdly, using a Firefox plugin called ScribeFire to blog from my desktop computer also strips angle brackets. Only posting from the HTML editor screen within the main WP installation results in SUCCEED. The other third-party applications for sending posts with photos results in various flavors of FAIL.
What’s New in ScribeFire 3.0.1? – ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging
The following changes were made to ScribeFire between versions 3.0 and 3.0.1.
Bug Fixes* Added detection of disabled XML-RPC in WordPress.
This should fix many of the “Invalid username/password” errors users have been experiencing.
* Fixed bug that causing ScribeFire to ignore line-breaks in preview mode
* Fixed bug when managing ads in tab or window mode
* Fixed bug with editor background in certain themes
* Fixed bug with incorrect earnings amount
* Updated ScribeFire to show a “What’s New in this version” page after upgrading instead of just ScribeFire.com
Time for a test post: the errors I’ve been having are to do with formatting being stripped from around images and links. ALL the angle brackets get stripped if posting via method other than directly via the WP editor.
Here’s what my husband David posted earlier, let’s see if the angle brackets get stripped.
O hai I delvrd ur groshrees! No cat treats, sry.
This is a photo of Riley during his “I has a bag” phase.” It has some simple stylng added via a CSS class called floatleft
I noticed that the way ScribeFire was adding Technorati Tags before, it was adding a lot of crappy looking cruft that I just had to delete with the angle bracket error, so no tags this time.
UPDATE:Fail Chicken strikes again!
All angle brackets were stripped, not just some of them. So all the HTML is unbracketed, like DIV, A HREF, IMG, BLOCKQUOTE and so on. My husband David has logged an issue with WP, and I wonder if I won’t file one with ScribeFire, too. What fun.
UPDATE: Yep, they did get stripped, I had to go back in and fix them manually. Still broken, it appears to be a PHP bug, and the fix is currently “recompile,” which with my husband David’s setup is not really an option. Here’s his post, and here’s ticket number 7771 on WordPress’ Trac page. No action in two weeks.
UPDATE 27NOV08: My husband David solved the problem, at least temporarily, until there is a fix for the bug and describes how he did it here. It probably only really works for our particular setup.
UPDATE 14JAN09: A commenter at David’s blog noted that there’s a workaround patch today.