If you can't get a user name do this...

If you are having trouble it could be hotmail. For some reason linking to the site from hotmail won't let certain users create an account. The best solution I found was to take a couple minutes to create a yahoo account and then use the yahoo account to access the blog account to create yourself a user name for the blog.

Once you are established in the blog you can access it in the future from hotmail and log in without any problems. Hopefully this helps some of you.