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Why can't I set my timezone to -5 (EST)? It's not an option in the drop-down menu.
posted by ascetic on Mar 7, 2009 - 28 comments

I'm sorry if this has been covered or is painfully obvious, but in searching MeTa and generally scouring my profile page, I can't find where to click to change my information. The one MeTa thread I did find on the subject (here) says there's a "customize" link. It seems this has been replaced with "Preferences," since the url ends in "customize.cfm," but when I click there, I get nothing but the set of Features, Links, and Sites links. Help?
posted by Igor XA on Apr 18, 2006 - 28 comments

I cannot add latitude/longitude to my userpage. More inside.
posted by matteo on Dec 28, 2005 - 5 comments

For some reason in my profile, where it is supposed to say "xx MetaFilter users near this user:" I get "no zip found in the db". I found that strange, as I live in a suburb of DC, but shrugged it off as everyone else living in the cooler parts of town. However, when I got bored and looked into it, I'm 26.87 miles from darksquirrel. Yet darksquirrel is 29.78 miles from jenny18 and they show up in each other's zipcode list. Is this a bug, or have I uncovered the fact that my neighborhood has been blackballed by MeFi?
posted by forforf on Oct 17, 2005 - 18 comments

OK, I'm a dumbhead. I overwrote all the stuff in my profile page by accident. Neither the Wayback Machine nor Google have a cache of it. Is there any way to get it back?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken on May 23, 2004 - 16 comments