I have to wonder... I signed up for Technorati, which had its own glitches. I then "claimed" my blog. My account page indicates that on December 2, they found the tokens they wanted on this blog. My claim is still, six weeks on, awaiting review.
Methinks Technorati could use some competition.
Update, 2010-01-28: Now I have the same message, "We have successfully crawled your blog and found the claim token, and your claim is now awaiting review. You may now remove the claim token from your feed." That's now dated January 19th, the day after I posted the above. Coincidence?
Update, 2010-03-01, three months on: I just got an email saying that Techorati had a problem with my blog. It appears they can't find the claim token. Well, doh! They said I could take it out (see the update above), so I did. Did they expect me to leave it there or something?
And, as further evidence of stupidity, there's nothing on the claim status page that tells me how to re-install the token. It's as simple as "Here, put this HTML on your blog's boilerplate...." or "See this page for complete instructions"
I don't need this level of incompetence. Technorati can stuff it in a very dark place, where they might find their brain.