History of the Blog Name

Here is the story of why this blog is called this way, I write it mostly so that I remember in the future...

It all started when I wanted to post a comment on the forums of a sourceforge.net project (http://oval.sourceforge.net/). I needed to register and I didn't want to create yet another account for posting a single comment...

Sourceforge.net used openID and I had my google account (but it wasn't compatible with sourceforge) but I saw that blogger was supported. Blogger is integrated with Google accounts, so I already had a Blogger account!

The Blogger OpenID though is based on the blog URL so I didn't simply need a Blogger account, I needed to create an actual blog. When I tried to create the blog I tried several names (e.g. A blog about nothing, and many other variations meant for an unused blog) but all the good names were taken...

I then decided to simply name the blog for its true usage... A blog to have an Open ID!

Cheers

Edit: I forgot to mention that creating this OpenID was a great move, the same day I used my new blogger account to comment on another blog post (http://day-to-day-stuff.blogspot.com/2007/10/announcement-version-99-does-not-exist.html). I'm glad I didn't just create another account on sourceforge.net with yet another password to remember and another possibility of having this password mis-handled...