The Bluffs I Played in

There is an area of bluffs off of Scenic Highway in Pensacola, Florida, that I am grateful to have intimately known throughout a big part of my late teens and up through my early 30’s. The bluffs were where I went to escape from home, job, and social pressures. It was a place I knew I could be free, and nobody would bother me.

The Pensacola bluffs are high above Eccambia Bay on the eastern edge of Pensacola.It has been a big stretch of nature, of natural bluff filled with native trees, shrubs, and geologic cliff forms made over time. It is a unique place in the Florida panhandle, and a scene to observe with the sounds of the water, and sea gulls at the beach below the bluffs.

I often climbed up and down the bluffs, exploring canopied passage ways, hidden crooks, and challenging overlooks to get to. I learned where all the overlooks were, where the most secluded places were, and where the trails went, althought, I made my own trails. The bluffs in Pensacola were all mine. As a kid, I ran naked up and down sand slopes, and into the water. I made tree forts, forts inside hidden passage ways, surrounded by overlooks, slopes, and a forest of trees.I did things that only boys would do in a natural expanse like the bluffs. I was all boy, all explorer.

I don’t know if the bluffs are still there, but my memories of the Scenic Highway bluffs will always be there. This is just another piece of earth, and nature that always have been important to me.

I will be happy to talk to anyone about the bluffs, and the things we did there.

Swimming Was My Passion

At a very young age, I discovered the water, or maybe the water discovered me. I swam like a fish at that young age. Uncle Carl always came over to visit, and he was passionate about swimming. Besides teaching me about geography and maps, he took me to lakes, the ocean, and swimming pools to swim. That was when I was a child under the age of 10. Then, we moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and I remember the many swimming pools there. Uncle Carl came out from California on some occasions and had fun swimming with me in these pools.

Dad was also a good swimmer and especially liked floating on his back. When we took family vacations, we both looked forward to hotel swimming pools, and other, natural bodies of water.

In high school, in Milton, Florida, where I lived many years of my life, I was on the high school swim team. My buddies and I often swam in the nearby bays, Blackwater River, and Gulf of Mexico. We had many races across lakes and rivers. We were all fish in the water. The water was our joy, our fun times, and our natural workouts.

Now, my son likes the water, as much, if not more that I ever did. He started regularly swimming at the Tallahassee YMCA, where we currently live. He also swims in the boy scouts. He even has the swimming merit badge.

Get out into the nature’s H2O. It is fun.You will experience sights, sounds and a sense of oneness with creation.

Web 2.0 Opens The Lines of Communication

Connections are at an all time high with all the online social media sites out there, such as Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Squidoo, WordPress, Blogspot, Linkedin, and all the rest.

The Web 2.0 internet is all about connections, engagements, networking, sharing, brainstorming in groups, and relationship forming. Web 2.0 offers what prior people in history, prior to the internet, missed out on, but would have been attracted to. They would have grabbed the opportunity og getting connected, if only they had our technology.

Imagine the world before the internet, and before the computer. Go back in history to the horse and buggy. Most people could only be connected to a few folks within the communnity. Communication was mostly limited to how far they could walk or horse ride in a day. Lifestyles were limited to the immediate surroundings of the neighborhood. As a result of the lack of outward relationship building, people had fewer opportunities, fewer connections with others, fewer intellectual hangouts, fewer ideas.

Web 2.0 has come as an angel giving everyone with internet access the opportunity to get connected with people all over the planet, and to get better connected with others in the same neighborhood.

Web 1.0 provided a library of information, on a one way street, not allowing for reader comments, inputs, feedback or website linking. Web 2.0 opens up communication, and makes the web an interactive tool of communication, where readers reply, and the public can also read and interact. The internet becomes a conversation in real-time with two or multiple users discussing most any subject.

The blog is a piece prepared by the blogger, with the idea that someone will respond, and comment on the blog, and on the blog site itself.

Later, in the Web 2.0 era, came the micro-blog, such as Twitter. Now, the conversation between blogger, and reader continues, but within the character limit of 140 characters to a post. More people can write and read since it is much easier to read 140 characters than several pages worth of a blog post.

You can find me micro-blogging on Twitter at http://Twitter.com/KenFach

Hide gold and think sound money

There is a reason why gold has been a tool of exchange ever since the early human cultures. Gold is unique, scarce, durable, lasting, solid, easy to identify, and has held value throughout history. These are the characteristics that make a substance useful as money, or a tool of trade. Fiat money which much of the world uses today as the monetary system in economics, does not have one of these characteristics, not one. Fiat money, meaning paper, has no value innate to itself because paper is not rock solid, durable, lasting,unique, scare, since paper is printed in abundance, easily identified without societal education since there are so many uses of paper, and has not had much value through the course of history.

Gold has held importance in American history and growth. Explorers, discoverers, soldiers, and opportunists came to the new world of north, central, and south America in search of the precious, valuable metal: gold. Today, even with the rule of paper and the printing press actively creating fiat money, gold still is desired. More people have gold hidden away than we may think. Gold attracted many people to the California gold fields, Alaska, the Yukon, northern Georgia, and elsewhere, because, although the monetary system is not based on gold, deep inside the human element is the longing for sound money, which gold represents, and paper cannot. For thousands of years gold was used as money and freely used to purchase goods and services.People went shopping with gold, silver or other form of sound money. Governments were not easily able to spend money under a sound monetary system, with exceptions, when governments printed excess paper to pay for expansionist unfoldments, or military engagements.
Less government, meant less inflationary spending, and therefore more consistent prices in the marketplace for goods and services.
In the United States, gold brought an environment of entreprenuership and economic prosperity such that has not been experienced since leaving the gold standard. When Franklin D Roosevelt prohibited Americans from having any gold possessions, and therefore for the first time in American history, Americans could not make purchases with gold, people had to become dependent on a growing system of paper money, which accompanied America’s growing obsession with paper in general. We became a paper society, even though paper is not durable, solid, scarce and therefore valuable, like gold.
Government printed paper in abundance to use as money, and has been passionately doing so ever since. The results: inflation and out of control government bureaucracy.

Gold became legal again after Roosevelt, but the paper money printing presses kept running day and night. We got back onto a gold standard later on but Nixon in 1971, took the United States off the gold standard, and the United States has not returned to it since.

Inflation is the devaluation of the money supply caused by increased printing of fiat (paper) money. When government wants something, it can either tax the people or print more paper. The latter has always been easier for government to do,but also more deceptive to the population.

I have gone on searches for gold, with the goal of stocking up on it as security, and a form of exchange if gold is ever needed in my lifestyle. I have been on gold quests in Paraguay, Brazil, Aegentina, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and more recently, northern Georgia. Maybe I found my rightful share, but I will not say, and I will not say where I have it hidden. I will say that I have real estate in South America, and places I can safely hide any gold I find.

It is an individual’s right, even Constitutional right, to own and possess gold. The founding fathers of the United States knew the value of gold and silver, included a clause in the Constitution in support of gold or silver coinage, and encouraged a sound monetary system for the young nation. America was always more prosperous when gold or silver was the medium of economic exchange.

Regardless of law, I will not give up any gold I have or may find, and yes, I will be going on more gold hunts in the near future. I join the millions of other people today and in the past who know the importance, and value of gold as real money.

This Tallahassee man called Kenneth Fach

Now, I am going to describe who Kenneth Fach in Tallahassee, Florida is. Kenneth came to Tallahassee in 1994, to work on his master’s degree in, Spanish Language and Linguistics, at Florida State University. He spent much of his time in the Dodd building and in the teaching assistants office, planning his classes, grading student papers, and working on his own Spanish class assignments. Kenneth taught Spanish to undergraduates during his graduate program, and was a popular teacher for the several years he was teaching Spanish. After graduating, he went back to teaching Spanish in a high school. Kenneth, his wife, and son, have not left Tallahassee since 1994, as they both like the community, the many parks, and the green, forested, surroundings.

Some know Kenneth Fach as a real estate agent, who started working in real estate sales in Pensacola, Florida, his hometown community, and later, continuing real estate in Tallahassee. Others know Kenneth Fach  as a Spanish teacher, a Spanish tutor, a youth volunteer, a vegetable garden enthusiast, a friend of nature, a hiker, camper, a Christian Scientist, a devout student of biblical studies, a loyal husband, good dad, and an avid  coffee drinker.   He has been active with the scouts, encouraging his son in his scout achievements.  Others, know Kenneth Fach  as a Florida state employee, since he worked for Florida’s Department of Children and Families for about six years using his writing, editing, computer, Spanish language and customer service skills. Others know Kenneth as a blogger who also frequents and leaves posts on Twitter.

Kenneth llikes to blog on a variety of topics: micro-blogging, technology, land, the Spanish language, Spanish teaching techniques and his teaching experiences, experiences he has had in other countries, such as Mexico and Paraguay, northwest Florida lifestyles, Tallahassee, camping experiences, home decorating, and improving ideas, as well as  growing up in ranch style homes.   Kenneth desires to spend much more time blogging, as he is passionate about the written word, both in Spanish and English. Kenneth Fach is a lot of different things, but one thing is certain, Kenneth puts the spiritual, before the material in all aspects of his living. He daily spends quiet contemplation with his Creator, and gives gratitude for the goodness of creation.

Kenneth likes Tallahassee because of the many natural green spaces all over. He loves trees, parks, and the color green, his favorite color. Kenneth  painted the interior walls of his prior home, sage green, as the dominating color, but had also painted the interior walls of other homes because of his inspirational and attractive use of the color green. He has surprised himself at what he can do with the color green to decorate a home.

Kenneth likes the closeness of Tallahassee to many of Florida’s state parks, national forests, beaches, lakes, rivers, cultural attractions, a yearly grape festival, Christmas festival, Spring Celebration, and so much more. He finds everything he wants in Tallahassee, except for mountains, and canyons. He likes taking his family to fine musical concerts at Florida State University, and FAMU.

Prior to coming to Tallahassee, and after graduate school, Kenneth taught school, used innovative teaching strategies to get the students involved in foreign language learning, and had classes filled with movement and activity, literally. Kenneth always believes that everyone should participate in his classes, and he had a way of making this happen. Schools are often centers of teacher and administrator political plays, and old school ways of doing things, which have proven to be ineffective in many subject areas. Kenneth is not against old fashion ideas, but he knows that in the times we live today, we need to cheerfully usher in innovation, newness, freshness, in the classroom, and discard the old, worn out clothing of older days. Kenneth embraces the total physical response teaching strategies developed by James Asher in the 1960’s. Too much is new today, and Kenneth welcomes that. He also welcomes a team approach to educating children, even getting parents involved, and interested.

Kenneth loved the classroom, but wanted to try other areas of work. He went to work for the State of Florida using his writing, computer, editing, foreign language, and customer service skills. Kenneth brough new ideas into his team at his workplace, and brought a lot of dedication to his job. He even inspired colleagues to take up a foreign language.

For much of his life, Kenneth Fach had been exposed to the workings of entrepreneurs. His uncle owned over 12 travel agencies in Chicago, his grandpa was a real estate developer in New Mexico, and created and owned the most successful camera shop and photography business in Albuquerque in the early part of the 20th century. Kenneth’s other uncle was an Inn keeper in Illinois, and also invested in real estate. Kenneth’s dad was an artist, painter, owned his own picture frame and art gallery, sold all areas of  insurance, was an  investment planner, calligrapher, teacher of calligraphy, commercial artist, aviation engineer, and hollywood cameraman. Kenneth Fach comes from a family of so many diverse interests, and backgrounds, and this gives Kenneth much to be proud of.

Kenneth’s first love of his life, is his love for the Holy Bible. He gets this love from his dad who daily studied the bible and Christian metaphysics.

Kenneth Fach welcomes all into his circle of friendship, and brotherhood. Kenneth is all for following the precepts of his Master, Christ Jesus, and sharing his biblical love with others.

Kenneth talks with people about ranch style homes since he finds that some have never lived in this long lasting symbol of American architecture. Others like to share their experiences living in ranch style homes as well, with the many stories coming within these homes. Kenneth is proud of his ranch home background, and hopes that the ranch home always stays as an architectural icon for America.

Kenneth would be happy if you want to speak Spanish with him! Kenneth is passionate about the Spanish language and loves to share that passion with others in Tallahassee, and elsewhere. You can find Kenneth on Twitter at http://Twitter.com/KenFach.

Tweet away on Twitter

Twitter is more than a cool social networking application. Twitter is about sharing, meeting, connecting, networking, brainstorming, all in less than 141 characters. 140 characters is the maximum amount of space you usually have for twittering. You can always post more tweets. It is a communication lifestyle. These are short, micro-blogs, that are quickly prepared, on the spot, and posted for the general public to view, or a private group. Each twitterer makes that decision. Twitter asks the simple question, “What are you doing now?” The answers are formed in innumerable ways.  You can tweet from your phone anywhere you have service, or from your laptop or PC. 

If you can’t say what you want to say in 140 characters, than it probably is not worth saying, or you need to work on reducing fluff. Twitter gives us all the opportunity to make our point, briefly, and just that: to the point. As a result of this structure, the blogger is compelled  to perfect his writing skills. 

I use Twitter to get information to the consumers, network with other professionals in my field of labor, and other professionals, to express thoughts that come to me, to provide useful tips and ideas that I think could benefit others, and to make new friends.

Twitter has a powerful search engion to help us look up people we may want to connect with, and follow. We use this search tool to find groups, companies, associations, to see who the members are, and then, we can connect with who we want to. This connecting, in Twitter terms, is called “following.” When you click the follow button, beside someone’s profile, you have just added a new contact to your ever growing network. That individual in turn, has the option of following you. Now, you two can share. You can even see who someone is following, read profiles, and click the follow button to follow someone that interest you, socially, or professionally. 

The key to success with Twitter, is to make your brief points, comments, suggestions, and ideas, interesing, fun, a pleasure to read, unique, and useful to the Twitterverse. You may get responses back to your comments, either directly, or for all to read as a post. You will even gain followers. This is good for most businesses. Followers can become customers.

Sometimes Twitterers ask questions, tell micro-stories, share recipes, discuss gardening, politics, school assignments, community events, personal recollections. Twitter is for everyone, but to be successful with Twitter, you need to feed your blog. Keep tweeting, and don’t stop. Let Twitterverse know you are out there. It really is fun, because Twitterers are fun and interesting people, that know how to use a micro-blogging platform to fit their needs in life. It is a lifestyle using a micro-blogging tool. 

I am KenFach on Twitter. Follow me. Hope to follow you.

http://twitter.com/KenFach 

Happy tweeting!!!!!

In the garden my dad loved so much

My dad loved putting his hand to work in the garden, and had a natural “green thumb,” but more on the artistic, aesthetic side. When I as a child of seven, living in Orange County, in southern California, dad built an awesome Japanese Garden. I remember that garden as if I was in it now: the two waterfalls he build of stone and cement, one about 10 feet tall, and the other smaller, the stream that flowed from the two waterfalls into two ponds stocked with goldfish. The red, wooden, arched walking bridge to walk over the stream, the field of pebbles, and gravel that sat between the pond and the waterfalls, the sitting bench for quiet retreat, the Japanese light ornament, the green plants that provided a border, and forest display around the garden, and the attraction of the birds. I can never forget going with dad to look for rocks for the garden. We traveled out into the desert, and picked out many rocks. This dad liked so much, and most of his life, he was interested in rocks, and what rocks can do in a garden, with their shapes, sizes, and relationship to other elements of nature. 

Like dad, I also am interested in rock gardens, zen gardens, Japanese gardens, and look for opportunities to find them to view and gather ideas. I do plan on making an delightful garden that dad would be pleased to view and pray in. Yes, dad spend many moments praying in the garden, reading the bible, and getting close to the Creator. When we think about it, a garden is a pure representation of the Creator’s love. I see divine Love manifested in so many forms and colors in a garden. 

Currently, my wife and I have an organic garden, and we have organically grown most of our tomatoes, peppers, basil, parsely, lettuce, and other vegetables, for years now. We share with family and friends. We would like to see more people out cultivating a vegetable garden. We strongly support the idea of community gardens, and know of folks in Indian Head neighborhood in Tallahassee that do just that. They have a community garden and neighbors come over to their yard to contribute their plot of organic produce.

Gardening is one of the most rewarding, and self-satisfying activities we can participate in, whether it is a meditative garden, such as a zen garden, or a garden of vegetables. Get out into the garden, and make those individual garden discoveries. I have, and so can you.

Order in Twitterverse

I have posted tips on using Twitter, but now I want to share what I think makes Twitter a valuable tool for business and social networking.It has to do with the idea of order.

Let me start by stating what we all should already know, and that is that there is order in the universe. Pope said so long ago: “Order is heaven’s first law.” He was right to my understanding of nature. A computer is a system functioning under the law of order. We do what we do online because of order. Code make us see what we see when viewing a page. Using another analogy, a day is an ordered display appearing as morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and night. Seasons come with order. Our lifestyles have order within and without them. In our work ther is and has to be order. We can’t avoid order because it is law, “heaven’s first law.”

In twitterverse, we tweeters of Twitter have fun networking, sharing with each other, meeting new folks, asking and answering questions, telling all what we are doing, thinking, eating, reading. Within this technology, there is order allowing our communication flow to happen.So, what is the law of order on Twitter that we all benefit from?

1. Logging into Twitter so a user can be identified as that individual with a given screen name.

2. The ability to follow other twitterers simply by clicking a button beside the user that we want to follow.

3. Creating a profile describing who we are to the Twitter community of users, and including our website.

4. Being able to reply to others’ posts.

5. Using no more than 140 characters per post. This limits what we say to what we feel is the message we want to send forth.

6. The ability to search posts under keywords, and to locate friends.

7. Seeing pics of who we are following and who are following us.

8. Seeing our chain of posts either as single proclamations, shared information, or within conversations with one or more other Twitter users.

Order on Twitter is reflected in so many ways giving its participants a useful system of communication with today’s communication technology: micro-blogging.

See you on Twitter. My screenname is KenFach.

Keywords in technology

In technology, keywords are our signals used so others can find us in the vast universe of the internet. When, where, and how we use keywords will be a big factor on who will find our blogs, websites and social media inputs.

We surely want traffic to our blog. We blog thinking that we have something useful to share, and the use of keywords will help our blog to be found more easily in the search engions, such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, and others. A blog platform such as WordPress, will often list categories of topics, and narrow that list down to another list of specific keywords. Keywords are usually listed at the beginning or ending of a blog post, and when a word is clicked on, other related posts can be viewed and read. I use WordPress and like the system of order wwith the categories and keywords. Think of the category as the folder, and the keyword as a document within the folder.

A good strategy for getting higher on the search engion page, and getting more traffic to your blog, website, social media page, is to dedicate one page (or document) to one keyword. Write everything you can about that one keyword, but don’t make it too long, and provide useful content around the keyword to interest readers.

In our internet avtivities, we often are focussed on certain keywords. In our offline communications we use keywords, and in fact, we use very little language out of the entire language universe. We are keyword focussed off and online. I sometime catch myself using words or phrases over and over that I wish I would not use, or that sound dull or ridiculous, but can’t easily reject them. They are my keywords by nature or habit.In blogging technology, keywords are our constantly used tools.

What I have recently done, was to make lists of keywords around more general categories. When I am ready to blog about something, I can go to my keyword lists and pull the word out that I want to use. My only task would then be to use the keyword throughout my blog post in a useful, interested manner that will attract readers and search engion crawlers.

If you have more tips or thought to share about keywords please don’t hesitate to respond with your comments.

The forts I built and seen

As a child, Kenneth Fach built wooden forts in his back yard, neighbors’ yards, the woods near his home and in forests he visited on the many camping trips with his dad and friends. Kenneth found a way to build shelters of all shapes and sizes, big and small.He built forts as a child in southern California, after the age of 9, in New Mexico, and after the age of 12, in Milton, Florida where he lived many years of his young life. He and his buddies, built forts with rooms, forts in trees, forts partly under the earth, fors in forests of bamboo, forts of plywood and boards, forts of earth. To this day, Kenneth Fach likes visiting old historical forts, forts in foreign countries, and encourages kids to be kids and build forts.

Recently, the homeowners association of Kenneth’s neighborhood, in which Kenneth is a board member, complained of children making forts in a conservation zone within the neighborhood. Kenneth felt that, unlike the other board members, that boys are boys, and that building a fort is a boy thing which should be accepted by the adults, who may have never built forts when they were kids.

When a boy is building a fort, he is learning some carpentry basics. He is planning, visualizing a form, and working to develope that form. He is in a sense a little architect, builder, carpenter, planner. He will need some sort of tool or tools, and will gain valuable practice using tools. I used pocket knives, happers, nails, saws, hatchets, rope and sticks when I was 8 years old building forts. There is not a problem with a little supervision at that age. However, boys are learning when they are constructing forts. When a boy is working on a fort with one or more other boys, experience with teamwork occurs. Most of what the boys will do when they become adults will be done within a team environment. I can’t think of many jobs where there is no team approach to getting the tasks done. Teamwork is essencial, crucial in the workplace, and the boys with a team, are learning social sills: how to communicate effectively with each other, how to solve problem that alone may not be solved, how to do things in harmony with others, how to enjoy others’ company.

Unfortunately, in the age of online social media, boys are on the computer more and are not outside building forts, climbing trees, or making knots.

Come on! Let the kids be natural explorers, and adventurers.  Give them a piece of the earth to make there simple creations. Wouldn’t you like to see the fort your child can build? You will be amazed at how creative and resourceful the boys can be with their forts.

My egalitarian fascination

Years ago, as a student at the University of West Florida, in Pensacola, I became interested in visiting the many self-sufficient, egalitarian communities in the United States. These are communities separated from the mainstream, in which each member contributes towards a sel-sufficient, or partly self-sufficient society.  These community types are about doing fro themselves, and not expecting the world, or the government to do for them. These are working groups of anywhere from 5 to several hundred individuals.The concept of egalitarian, where everyone is equal, is as ancient as the ancient of days, but so unique in our often unequal, capitalistic American society, where there are those who have and those who have not.

In my busy university experience and the jobs I had, I never did visit any such autonomous community, and the interest did fade away eventually, especially as I became involved in the professional world of the status quo, and also because  I became very busy working as an anti-nuclear activist going around organizIng people to take a stand opposing the build up of nuclear energy plants, that at the time were almost daily a news topic in this country.  (Today, I see nuclear energy as a reasonable energy alternative)

There is one idea that I have always supported and continue to support, and that is that the United States can be a stronger, more cohesive, and united land if we were self-sufficient from the rest of the world and somewhat isolationist. For much of American history, we were quite isolationist, and a people who built our own products and industries. Today, so much is build in China and elsewhere that we are no longer the big producers that we had been, but rather, are debt-ridden consumers,eating up the cheese until there is no more.

The Bible honors self-sufficiency, liberty and independence. Our nation was built on those principles.

I have made my contribution towards a production mentality by growing organic tomatoes, peppers and other vegetables for the past 10 plus years. In fact, we have not had to buy much vegetable produce from the markets that we did before. We have taken the garden, the old symbol of self-sufficiency, and worked it successfully. No government involvement has. Been necessary, and no dealing with foreign nations or communities beyond our property lines.

Although I do not live in an egalitarian community, I have my own community. I know how to grow my own food. For that I am most grateful. “A grateful heart, a garden is, where there is always room, for every lovely God like grace to come to perfect bloom.” A hymn

MyOpenId as key to enter social media sites

If you have been keeping up with online technology you probably heard of Openid, or one login key to multiple websites, especially social networking sites, where so many of us hang out on. 

For so long, too long, we all had to remember a username and password for all the many sites we needed to log into. It often became cumbersome to remember all of them, and login information was lost. People go to so many sites, and have so many online accounts. I had to cut back since I just did not have time for all of them, but I still am on many sites.

I know the issue with login problems to be true, because for several years I worked in a call center as a technology help desk professional. People called in all day long everyday to get their passwork reset, or username recovered. It was the same old story of login being lost. People also get careless with computer security and their login.

Openid software solves this problem, and enables the online community to log into numerous sites with one login credential. Openid serves as one key to enter many sites, without having to carry a chain of keys.It is also much more secure since pieces of paper with our usernames and passwords are not sitting around in insecure places.

First, you set up your Openid account. I use MyOpenId, but there are others. Second, you login to your open Id account and with cookies enabled on your computer, you can now go to your sites or with multiple windows opened, multiple sites, and use just your open Id username to login. No password is needed since you used your password to log into your open Id or MyOpenId account. The system is fast, secure and logical in the online community of so many websites in which we have accounts.

You know, hacking others’login information is not difficult with software and knowledge out there. I could even do it, and have done it. However, secure measures are in place to protect our login information, and to let us go to our social media platforms to connect, share, discuss, and network. I like MyOpenID, but there are other openid software. MyOpenId has a list of all the sites for which you can use MyOpenId to enter. The list includes a brief description, and list is ever-growing. There seems to be a sites for everyone.

For the cause of simplicity, please support openid, one login username for multiple sites, without having to remember a list of usernames and passwords. It is a very safe, secure, and logical way to surf our beloved internet.