desired username: the username that you wish to use. your username will be displayed to all users. it can be your email, but since it will be public, it is not recommended. if the username that you entered is already taken, you will have to provide an alternate...

email address: enter the email address that you would like direland.com to send messages to

confirm email address: enter the same email that you used in the email field, it is used to prevent spelling mistakes

password: enter the password that you would like to use. a good password should be a minimum of 8 characters, and a mixture of numbers, punctuation, and characters

confirm password: enter the same password that you used in the password field, it is used to prevent spelling mistakes

CAPTCHA (from wikipedia): A CAPTCHA (IPA: /ˈkæptʃə/) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human. "CAPTCHA" is a contrived acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart", trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University. The process involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade, but not able to solve on its own. Because computers are unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct solution is presumed to be human

translation: it is used so spammers, or others of nefarious intentions, cannot create accounts using automated programs...

OpenID: is a new open standard that lets you sign in to web sites with a single URL that you own. This URL can be your homepage or blog, or it can be provided to you by a web site you use. In either case, you only have to sign in once to your OpenID provider and so you only need to maintain a single password. learn more