[OpenID] Trying to verify that my OpenID is valid

[Dan Lyke]

So I decided to try to drag my OpenID identity back out of the dusty
recesses. I have a MediaWiki server, so I made sure I had Evan
Prodromou's most recent MediaWiki extension, and typed "openid test"
into Google.

First response is:

http://openidenabled.com/resources/openid-test/

which I try, entering http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke, and I get

   Failed to discover any OpenID service.

Okay, wget my URL, look in the headers, sure enough there's a 

   <meta http-equiv="X-XRDS-Location"
   content="http://www.flutterby.net/Special:OpenIDXRDS/DanLyke" />

Some further digging around reveals that, indeed, that document appears
to be valid. So, strike "openidenabled.com" off my list of valid OpenID
verifiers.

Next  hit is a Google Code project, next one down is openidenabled.net,
which says "Coming Soon".

Third hit is
http://winged.info/projects/news/plugins/openid/index.php?secret

which gives me an internal parsing error.

Okay, go to openid.com, find domain squatters, go to openid.net, and
discover... oh, look, I can get an OpenID URL, but I still can't find a
bloody OpenID consumer!

I'm frustrated. When I last participated in the OpenID mailing list it
was disintegrating into a whole bunch of features and technologies that
I just didn't care about, but I figured leave it alone and let the dust
settle and maybe something good would come out of it. Now I discover
that bit-rot has set in and OpenID is either moribund or dead.

What's happening here? And can I use OpenID yet, or is it still a
far-off technology?

Dan