Update, january 21st: Yes, OpenID was definitely not working in a way that was logical for commenters.  I’m not sure what’s going on, so i’ve disabled it for now.

Well, i thought i was smart and all by adding OpenID as a way of logging in here to leave a comment, but something’s acting wonky.  If you try to use your OpenID on a post, you’ll probably wind up staring at an almost-blank page with a couple lines of code on it.  It actually means your OpenID login was successful, but for i-don’t-know-why you aren’t being returned to the comment page.  If you hit back you’ll get to the comment screen again and can then leave your comment.

I’ll poke at it a bit to see if i can find a solution.  If i can’t, i guess i’ll just have to disable the OpenID plugin.  Sigh.

Ok.  If hit all the switches in all the right order, wrdnrd.net should now have both OpenID[1]and Gravatar functionality in the comments.  If you have trouble with either of those here, i suppose you can let me know in the comments on this thread.  I’ll try to do something about it, but, y’know, i’m not a web designer — it took me most of the afternoon just to get them to work in the 1st place.

Setting up my own Gravatar does make me think again about creating a more wrdnrd-specific owl icon.  The b/w image of the owl on the books that i’m using currently is from a bookmark i scanned, oh, at least 3 or 4 years ago now.  I like it a lot, but it was only supposed to be temporary!  Plus i feel i should use an image made for me, not one i just repurposed.  Hmm.  Must think on how to do this, since i can’t draw for shit.

[1]  This means you can authenticate yourself here using your, for example, LiveJournal or Dreamwidth account.