Holy cow, Google has already indexed a forum post I wrote ten minutes ago. Scary.

Igor Gomes drew my attention to the fact that Launchpad OpenIDs didn’t work in my blog. The OpenID implementation used here was self-written and only supported OpenID 1.0, so it’s no wonder — but still, when I looked at the replacement that I used, the PHP OpenID Library together with this component, it made me weep. OpenID 1.0 was elegant in its simplicity, and so was the authenticator code; is OpenID 2.0 bloated?

Still, Launchpad userpage URLs work in the OpenID box now. EAUT is supported too, so you can use an email address if you have one linked to OpenID.

Mibbit actually turned out to be more nifty than I thought, since it has registration and autojoin settings (alongside the much-required option to disable graphical emoticons).

I should probably change the coloration of “Your name mentioned” tabs, though. It’s one of those dark shades of red that I have trouble discerning from brown. I don’t know what kind of partial color-blindness I have — none of the standard descriptions from Wikipedia fit exactly, although I fail the protanopia and partially (depending on monitor brightness settings) deuteranopia test. What I know is that I have trouble distinguishing between dark brown and dark red, as well as between light green and yellow.

Damn you, Y chromosome!