Tuesday, March 2, 2010

A Mini-War With Google

I am really excited about this. Finally, I can spread my ideas across the world through the medium of internet! for free! However, nothing can truely be free, and Google Blogger is no different. You see, Blogger requires a payment of frustration. Allow me to explain.

In order to post, you need an account. Thankfully, since google owns everything important, I can just use the same username I use for GMail, Youtube, etc. and so forth. For some reason, this doesn't work. This is the same user and password I've been using for years. I kept convincing myself I was typing it wrong, and eventually Google grew unhappy with my repeated attemts to log in. And when Google is unhappy, everyone within a 10-mile radius is miserable. Eventually I got this:






What. On. EARTH is that supposed to be? How am I supposed to type That? That's the kind of thing I ask people to call me when I'm on laughing gas. How does that kind of thing get by Google? I understand they need to protect against spambots, but I don't think Enigma could crack that, much less a human. I can't even tell how many letters are supposed to be in that. Just looking at that disturbed me enough to forget about trying to crack my password. So I decide I'll create a new account, where I find...






GAH!

You win this round Google...

-Reach

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