I use the k2 theme for this wordpress blog. I used to write my own, but k2 is much, much neater. I also use the openid plugin for wordpress. (I wrote about openid’s before)
To get the two to play together, you need to turn off live commenting.
In my case, as my blog is also my openid url (see this tutorial in delegating your open id if you want to use your blog or website as your openid url, and any provider), I had to add some code the the k2 style’s functions.php
add_action('wp_head', 'custom_header');
function custom_header () {
?>
<link rel="openid.server" href="...openid provider url..."/>
<link rel="openid.delegate" href="...openid provider url..."/>
<?php
}
Now you have your own blog as your openid url, and your blog accepts openid’s for comments with the k2 theme 
I stumbled across this post on the Official Gmail Blog: 2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address
It is an absolute must read if you use Gmail
So, as there is a new version of Wordpress (2.5.1) which has some serious security fixes, I thought I would move my blog to running from svn. This doesnt mean I am running bleeding edge code, it just means updating the Wordpress code is as simple as svn sw new_version_url. Which is a lot simpler than downloading and unpacking tars over the top.
Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion « WordPress Codex
Theres also a configuration option for the new wordpress that improves the cryptography
Andy Piper write about Remote PC support for family members a while ago, and I remember playing with the single click reverse vnc, based on ultravnc. However I dont run windows often, so the idea died.
Today I played with getting it working under linux. The single click reverse vncserver part is still the same, but for the client I had three choices - Run a native vncviewer, which wouldnt support encryption, run the java ultravnc client which also does not support encryption, or get the ultravnc viewer working under Wine.
The third option was most enticing, as I want encryption working. Wine launches it fine, but getting the encryption to work was harder - fist make sure you have the version 1.16 of the MSR4C plugin, as the single click ultravnc builder uses that version. Then copy your encryption key and the plugin file to ~/.wine/drive_c/Program_Files/ultravnc/ so that when wine runs th program it finds them all in the right places. I then launch the viewer with wine (from within that dir to be sure everything finds the right files) as follows: wine vncviewer.exe -dsmplugin MSRC4Plugin.dsm -listen
Then all you have to do is set up your firewall, and of course customise your single click help executable
So Adobe has released their web based photoshop. Its not a full photoshop (unsurprisingly) but it is free and available anywhere you have a browser.
I tried it out - First I was annoyed by the “US only” thing at registration, so I said I was in the US. then I was frustrated by how long the flash login box took to load up and then I found that I cannot import a single photo as it thinks they are all corrupted… I suspect it is because I am running Linux.
There is a brief review on Photojojo too, though they seemed to like it.
If you are looking for an online photo editor, its worth trying picnik too
I noticed that Yahoo recently started offering OpenID authentication as part of a Yahoo account, this means you can now use your Yahoo Id or Flickr account to authenticate for comments on this blog. Of course I had to install the wordpress openid plugin to make that work.
If you don’t know much about OpenId’s, you may want to read more about them on OpenID.net. A quick summary is that an OpenID allows you to log in to sites that support OpenID but having one username and password on a OpenID server. You just put the address of your OpenID (which can be your own website) and the other website asks your OpenID server whether you have logged in.
If you don’t want to use Yahoo’s OpenID, you can use any OpenID provider (which is the point of OpenID) such as Blogger,Wordpress or even build your own OpenID provider just for you.
I decided to build my own, mostly for curiousity. I used phpMyId, which is about the simplest php script to install. Drop the 2 files in the right place, edit the files to create the username/password (you may need access to a command line linux box for this) and then you can log in. If you want to make your website be the address for an OpenID, you need to add some html to the header of the index page (called delegating your OpenID) but this is included in the instructions for phpMyId.
Once you have an OpenId, you will probably want to test it.
