The observant visitor to this site may already have noticed the addition of OpenID support for logon and commenting on this site. This is easy to achieve with the WP-OpenID plugin. For now I have enabled the option to auto-approve comments submitted with an OpenID. I know having an OpenID doesn’t necessarily make you a good person but, at least for now, its more effort than your average spammer is prepared to go to.
Whilst I was at it, I added the WP-Yadis plugin so that I could delegate from the URL for this site to an OpenID server. My original intention was to set up my own server using phpMyID but in the end I decided that I preferred the richer functionality provided by my existing myOpenID account (in particular, the ability to log in with a client certificate) and I’m not sufficiently paranoid to worry about them knowing what sites I use. In fact, here are the sites that I’ve been able to use my new identity with over the past couple of days: Blogger, DOPPLR, Plaxo, Technorati and, of course, this site.
As part of playing around with phpMyID, I also finally got round to recompiling nginx with SSL support. As reported elsewhere, the only issue I encountered was with removing the default nginx installation.
Hmm, logging onto blogger. I guess I should look to see if there are any comments on my blog. You are still the only person who comments. Thanks for reading. It makes it all seem worthwhile.
Alasdair