How did I celebrate having a phone line and internet connection in the new flat? Easy, in an idle moment I thought "I haven't changed my main gmail password in a while, maybe now would be a good time to do it". Because i am a bit of a paranoid fool I thought maybe it was time to stray from the dozen or so standard passwords I use regularly and decided to create a brand new one. I thought long and hard so it wasn't something too obvious and off I went and did it. Then this morning as I went check my emails I just could not remember the stoopid brand new password. No problem I thought, I'll just get it reset. Except it appears I have somewhat forgotten to change the primary account for my gmail address and the reset instructions have been sent to an account I have not used in years because it was unreliable, the webmail interface was unwieldy and the spam filter was inefficient and I tired to cleaning it up. It goes without saying that I cannot remember the password for the primary account (although I did try all of the obvious ones). Reseting the primary account's password involves my ex calling some ISP call centre somewhere and since he is rather busy at the moment with writing his final paper it's not really something I feel I should ask him to waste time on. Gmail have thought of the "what if I can't get to my primary account" bit. Their thought is that before they'll let you reset using the security question they need to make sure that the account has been inactive and I am not somebody else trying to gain access. Fair enough. Except they think a reasonable length of time to wait for this is 5 days. I wonder how well I'll do without email for that long. Now, one small favour, please nobody mention the strong possibility that by the time the 5 days have passed I may be unable to answer the security question because it was set up years ago and since I never actually put the truth as the answer to the security question (because I am after all a big boobed paranoid fool and what would be the point of me giving my pet's name as a security answer when it is not a secret to anybody). So in 5 days if I am stumped by the name of my first teacher or my grandmother's phone number feel free to point and mock. In the meantime I guess you can mock too jut don't mind if I growl slightly in return due to the slight email withdrawal.
Dumb and dumber
3.4.08 21:46
