They're baaaaaaack!

But first a rant.

Hello everyone!

Office Space (1999) - technology killer

I have decided it's about time I get back to doing what I love, watching a fluff ton of films and trying to process how those 90 minutes, or more likely these days 180 minutes, has affected me. So I thought hey, let's blow the virtual dust off my old blog and give this thing a go!

Look forward to it. It's going to happen. Hopefully.

First though, I'm afraid I am going to have to have a bit of a rant. This is mainly because I decided a few days back after watching Django Unchained (2012) that I was going to get back on it like a Bee's bonnet (more on Django later). I had spent the next hour after the film boring Manface once again with my views on Tarantino which he really doesn't care about. For him once the film is done, it's done, and he moves swiftly on to thinking about mostly eating, sleeping or why the hell I'm still talking (but, once again, more on him later).

So, anyway, it would seem Google has taken over our blogs. When did that happen? I was quite happy about this as I had just set up a fantastic new Gmail account which was going to make my life super awesome and connect me in ways I hadn't dreamed possible since the days when we met people in primary school by passing on their 'germs' and eating crayons together.

It seems in fact, that passing existing accounts onto existing Google accounts is nigh on impossible. Had even more fun with this when I realised Google now owns my YouTube accounts. Again, when did that happen? Have I been in a coma?

It has been a very angry few days. Cemented by the fact that my Blog and YouTube were attached to a Hotmail address I no longer knew the password for as I just accessed it through my most recent and grown up account. This is what happens when you try to be a grown up. 

So, to give you a gist of all the fun;

1.  If you do a password recovery Google sends you the name of the accounts associated with that email. All good so far. 
2. Clicking these links should take you to a password recovery form. 
3. Instead though, Google tells me that I now have to have a Google account to access all that they have stolen from me. I can't attach these to my Gmail though, oh no. 
4. So I set up an angry temporary secondary Gmail to attach it to, thinking that would be it. 
5. Oh no! In order to attach my Blog and Gmail to an account I don't even want to attach it to, I have to type in my original account password! You know, that one I had forgotten? Wait, wasn't that what got me here in the first place?

In the end I just got massively angry and tried to delete my accounts. Guess what? I had to type in my original password to do this!

So my accounts didn't get tantrum deleted which was good, so at least Google's ridiculous plot to do I still don't even know what, saved me somewhere.

But as you can see I did get here in the end. I'll be honest though I don't really know how. Everything turned into an angry haze of haphazard clicking and Google searches (and yes I appreciate the irony that Google did help me fix it in the end, but damn they made me work for it). For anyone who has found this post for the same angry Google searching reasons as I'm moaning about, In terms of my blog I think I made the new me a writer, then an admin and then deleted old me. Angry secondary temporary Google account is now sleeping with the fishes. In terms of YouTube, both of my accounts are now also deceased.

I do now feel like an action hero for the Geek Chic generation. In kicking ass, taking names and taking back what was mine my two younger, uglier, much less loved children (YouTube times two) did unfortunately lose their lives in my ultimate battle with Google. However I took back my blog. I won. I beat Google.

Yet, I find my dear blog has been tainted by the trauma. All of my posts are gone. I no longer understand how to work anything. My Blogger name has changed to my full name which I really need to fix before my clients start Googling me (alas, maybe Google was the true victor) and finding these crazy ramblings. I feel my blog doesn't love me anymore, and I've got to be honest, at the moment it is one step away from going in the chokey. 

I fear my Blog may be a sleeper. Google has given me false hope that it's all over only to have my blog ultimately destroy me in the end. Just when I thought it was safe to go back in the water. (By the way apparently it's now actually safer to go back in the water! Check this bad boy out! Manface is going to be so happy when I get my hands on that.)

I have learned two important things from this debacle though;

1. The obvious. Google = Evil. However it now owns my entire online life. I have just become aware I am typing this into Google Chrome. I probably don't have much time left before they get me. Avenge me friends.
2. Don't have any friends in IT. It sounds like a good idea I know, but they never fix anything and just mock you when you are having a computer based breakdown over Facebook status updates.

Hopefully my next post should be more film related! Adieu!