Welcome to Cranky Penguin! This site is an offshoot of logrus.com, owned and maintained by the same folks. This site's a little different though. It's main purpose is a secure site for our friends and family to see pictures and stuff about the Sprout, who is due to join us ANY TIME NOW REALLY.
Cranky Penguin uses OpenID, with moderation/verification. If you have a LiveJournal, and are logged in, you should be able to use your username.livejournal.com to log in. One of us will have to authorize you, and then you'll be able to see any content that we've marked private.
Stuff will also in most cases cross-post to crankypenguin.livejournal.com, but comments there will not turn into comments here. Also, if you add crankypenguin, I'll have to make crankypenguin friend you, because everything posted to that will be friends-only. Just because I can put public pictures of my child on t3h intartubez does not mean I *want* them out in public. :)