I’m a do-it-yourself kind of guy, except when I’m feeling just lazy enough to want something done, but not so lazy as to not bother. This here blog is a good example. I didn’t want to be bound to a particular blogging service or even to a particular hosting provider, for various boring reasons. That’s why I’m using a client-side application to generate and upload my posts. Just a bit 1990′s, to be sure, but I could pack up my site and move it elsewhere in a handclap. I only bring this up because of Blogger. In the past, they’ve let me post comments (when a blog author allows it) under my name and URL. Now, this option has been removed in favor of OpenID:

We apologize for removing the URL field from the comments form prematurely two weeks ago. That was a mistake on our part that came from launching OpenID support on Blogger in draft. Ironically, our testing of OpenID, a feature that lets you use accounts from all over the web to comment on Blogger, made it appear that we were trying to force you into getting a Google Account. [Source]