I noticed the latency since last night when I tried logging in and seeing if there were any new amusing twits to while away my time. And just now, 10:13 AM GMT+8, I get this error message: So what else is new, you might ask. Well, I have recently tested and deployed OpenID here in the site. I'm not really new with OpenID since I have been using my own domain as my own OpenID with the help of Sam Ruby's article and phpMyID. However, I haven't opened up my site for OpenID users registered with other providers, and from what I hear from the open source community, it's a lot of work. Fortunately, there's WP-OpenID, a WordPress plugin that works for WordPress 2.5 (or at least, its latest version). I just installed the plugin like any other WordPress plugin, edited one of the files according to the steps from the support page (because there's this bug of an error that appears everytime I click on the settings of the plugin), and it now works like a charm. However, I have no idea if it works as it should since I haven't done other diagnostic tests besides posting a comment using my OpenID, and I didn't notice any conflicts with other plugins, so if you notice something out of the ordinary, please feel free to leave a comment. Feeling adventurous? Want to try it out for your blog? Go ahead and give it a try. However, I would suggest that you read the threads and discussions on the plugin's page. You might run into some issues that were already addressed there. Or not yet addressed. User beware. So far, so good. But Twitter is still down. Oh wait. It's up now (10:23 AM GMT+8). Yay. Now what?!