First Post

I've been lazily posting to my own site for the last year or so and until now didn't bother looking into getting a Blogger blog. So this is a trial to see:

1. If being on blogger exposes me to a wider audience
2. If I prefer the funky interface to FTPing static HTML

I also wanted to reserve my usual username as I've done with other up and coming trendy services such as Skype, Flickr and Eventful (aka EVDB).

I wish we'd get our act together and settle on a secure single login that can be shared across websites. Like Microsoft Passport (has anyone implemented this using non-MS tools e.g. PHP?). Google have their own user authentication which is shared across Gmail, groups, alerts, Froogle, Orkut and their personalizable home page. Not sure I want any single sign-on system to be based in the USA though, lest dubya spies on me!