My sister has a blog (http://perilousknits.livejournal.com).
I'm using this page, OpenID, and http://www.myopenid.com to sign my comments.
-- KitzKikz

Why I Did This

I like leaving annoying, big brother type, comments on my sister's blog. I help keeps me connected. However, her blog software only allows comments from anonymous users, other LiveJournal members, or OpenID. I grew tired of posting everything as anonymous -- anybody could leave a comment and claim to be me. I didn't want to join LiveJournal, I have this wiki and don't want multiple outlets to manage.

She also uses aliases for everyone she references, which I think is cool. So I didn't want to start leaving my true name all over her blog.

After doing a little reading, I found that OpenID could accomodate both desires.

How I Did This

First I went to http://www.myopenid.com and created a new account. This literally took seconds. I used my real name here because I may need to use my OpenID for something serious, but if I used it on comments to my sister's blog, my real name would show on her blog. So, I needed to find a way to alias it.

Second, since I own this site, I could use a page here to represent an alias of my ID and redirect any OpenID systems to my real account. I did this by posting the following in the header of this page:

        <link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server">
        <link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://account_name.myopenid.com">

I found the above on the OpenID site, the MyOpenID site, and several other places -- usually under the heading of "Using your blog as your ID" or something similar.

Now I can use http://kitzkikz.com/PerilousKnitsBro as my signature on her blog, but still have a serious ID if I need it on some other site. All this without creating multiple ID accounts, which would have really defeated the whole purpose of the OpenID concept.