OpenID in 5 minutes

Soooooo I was giving a talk to the end of year conference for the Psych department (Dalhousie) … on scientific visualization. Hey, I’d been up to my chin with all sortsa fun VRML for the past 8 months, so nooooooo sweat!

An early projector system (we’re talkin’ 1999 here) so I checked it out the night before. Sweet little Dell laptop, smart projector, NP.

On the day … good presentations … I start talking as I hit the stairs, banter, banter, plug in, banter, check connections, banter, boot, hit PPPlayer, banter, slide on on screen, launch into my talk, peek over right shoulder, read ” … no signal … no signal … no signal … “. Freeze. *beat beat beat* banter, close the laptop, walk to the edge of the stage huh huh huh … a talk on scientific visualization w/o visuals haaaaahahaha!

FWIW the senior member of the staff eye-locked me at the reception and gave me like a good big handful of brownie-points for not just freezing up.
*beam*

Gotta luv whatcha do!

Beta report on OpenID: it’s nice, but too much boilerplate. I like to personalize my name, and select which URL to throw up there. Even customize email, depending on situation.

^5

Scott, great presentation!

Ben, to personalize your openid and customize email, try http://www.freeyourid.com :)

Hakon

I don’t see why people just randomly laughed, that’s rude! And the guy who shouted “credit card” was obviously a very sad idiot. I thought it was a pretty good presentation. Very intuitive, even for an openid user. Keep up the good work.

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