Cody Taylor

A.B. VerHausen writes “Even though there’s a whole new Web site devoted to understanding and using OpenID, some companies are dropping the login method altogether. OStatic is reporting that the ‘free Web site network Wetpaint announced recently that it will no longer support OpenID as a login option for its wiki, citing low usage and high support costs as reasons.’ Apparently, fewer than 200 registered users bothered with OpenID, and the extra QA and development time doesn’t make it worthwhile to support. This can’t come as welcome news on top of the internal issues the article mentions the OpenID Foundation is having now, too.” I’ve actually been quite happy with OpenID, since I have spawned far too many username/password pairs over the last 20-plus years, but it’s a major chicken-and-egg problem. Hopefully someone out there will build a better mousetrap …

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This video is from Ed Begley and from Jay Leno about a new wind turbine called the MagWind from Enviro-Energies that they will be installing soon. As many of you have asked about “vertical axis wind turbines,” I thought you’d like to see the latest in this technology.