4 minutes and 3 steps to set up my OpenID
OpenID looks promising. You can use it to log into wikitravel, vox, and lots of other sites. OpenID sounds as if it shouldn't work, but it does. Kinda like wikis. It's secure and everything.
To create an account, do this:
1. I went to http://www.myopenid.com/ and signed up for an account. Confirm email.
2. Add two lines to my site's homepage petervandijck.net as explained here: http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/01/03/OpenID-for-non-SuperUsers Try view source on http://petervandijck.net/ Those 2 lines mean that I can use http://petervandijck.net as my openID instead of the openid.com one. Easy.
Done! It was only 2 steps!
3. To try it, go to http://wikitravel.org/en/Special:OpenIDLogin and try to log in there... WORKS! Also go to http://simonwillison.net/ and log in... WORKS!
Great! This took all of 4 minutes.