Dante's Password Recovery

So ... I've had a lot of thoughts on my mind over the last few days and I sat down tonight to write them out in a good post. But when I tried to sign in, I needed to re-enter my password, because I've since cleared my cache and it's gone. No problemo, that's easy, until the blogging software says, "I'm sorry, but there is no e-mail address in our system like the one you typed in". I double check.. "But blogging software, I typed it in correctly" and try again. "Sorry, no." Hrm. Well I have this other google account.... so I go and find my sheowen account -- to which I've only maybe signed in once when I first created it and to to whom I also don't remember the password. No problem, I'll do google's password recovery. There, all fixed. So I jump back over to blogger and type in my e-mail address and new password confident I've cleared up this little mess. But then it says,

"Welcome Mr. Sheowen! Would you like to create a blog?"

"But I already have one" I say.

"No you don't, you need to create one"

"But I'm looking at it right here: sheowen"

And it was strange because my blog would have a 'sign out' button at the top -- but on the dashboard: no blog. So I do the next best thing: I ask for directions. I search the help center and get the forgotten password stuff sent to my account e-mail. But it appears that somehow because I changed the password using google rather than blogger, it knows enough to know I exist, but not enough to know I'm me. It knows there is a sheowen e-mail, but since the password records are different, I can't be the sheowen on file.

Because cleary that would be crazy talk.

So I navigate my way through trying to look for a 'contact support'; I get the Windows run-around:

"I have a problem"

"Well try this, did that fix it?"

"No, I need to talk to someone"

"Well, you should try this, and that'll fix it"

"But it didn't fix it and I need to talk to someone"

"But that fixes everything"

...

"Are you sure you still want to talk to someone?"

"Yes"

"We can do that, and we're going to put you in touch with our answers people. And our answers people say to try this second thing"

"I did that"

"No, you did the first thing, but you didn't do the second thing"

GAHHHAHA


I'd pull out my hair, but .. you know

So I cruise back over to my sheowen gmail account -- no emails. I wait. Nothin'. So I get to thinkin', well I wonder if they got sent to the other e-mail? So I sign onto my main account, and viola! There are two forgotten password links.

Niavely, I click them.
Thinking I'm going to reset or at least find out what my blogger account's password is

"Ohhh, so you want to reset your gmail account? Okay, an e-mail has been sent"

"Wait! No... I want to reset my blogger, not my gmail"

So now in the process of trying to solve one account, I've waxed both my blogging account and my primary e-mail account. It looks grim.

But then, when all hope seems lost, I notice that my dashboard has been updated and shows my blog: sheowen. How did that happen? It's back! And then I realize that it's tied to my gmail, and since I signed into my main account (or had) that my blog had been recognized. In fact, I realize that it was never tied to my sheowen account at all. And then I realize that... wait. My password for my blog is the same as my gmail account? Because it's tied to my gmail account?

About this time I made a lot of the "Ahh come on!" and grumbles that Ninja Bear makes so well.

Lesson Learned: Dem programmers don't always write the best of error messages


Anyway, my I time is up and I decided a laugh might be a better post than my thoughts for now -- I'll be back on soon to share those with you.

Have a good night friends