I just couldn't leave well enough alone. I finally caved and decided to make a post to our joint blog Tourist Bot's Diary. It started with an unofficial dare to wait the longest time to update the blog. It's been nearly six and a half years since the last post. I hadn't even planned to admit defeat, but I wanted to comment over on Twee Affect and of course one must present one's credentials for such a bold move lest one appear to be a spambot (or perhaps a touristbot.) Well, the credentials wouldn't work as apparently things on the interweb have moved on in the last six years or so.
Fortunately there is a helpful 'Forgot the random alphanumeric string you use to access this site? click here and we'll send an e-mail and have you squared around in a jiffy' link and sure enough along comes an e-mail and of course we can set things right and oh by the way, you'll need to join googleplusgood or whatever. So, after faffing about for a while with account settings and no you can't use that name and your password needs to be strong but you can only use these characters and not the full complement, bob's your uncle, you are now back up to speed.
Now in possession of a geemail account so I too can look like some shifty character of no fixed address, I click on over to Tourist Bot's Diary, thinking I'm about ready to serve up a heaping pile of invective perfectly suited to the Tourist Bot style. Alas, I discover that there are now two of me. There's the me who has been a (theoretical) blogger since 2006 and then there's the me who has been a blogger since, well, today. The new me had no blogs until I started this one. But I got to this point by trying to access the blog I was associated with. This is not the invective I had set out to hurl.
Meanwhile the old me is still happily linked to the old blog. Well, I'll just sign in on the old account. Unfortunately, 'no-can-do' is the mantra here and the only way to get back to the old account is through the 'I'm pretty well certain I know my account details, but apparently I have forgotten them, please send me an e-mail' link, which recursively dumps one right back into the prior predicament. This particular dungeon has no passage back to the start point.
So now after resisting the invites from friends and acquaintances who've been swallowed up, I have finally succumbed and joined Cthoogle. I doubt I'll avail myself of all the geewhiz social media crap here, but apparently I'm a blogger so I might as well blog. I won't rule out changing my screen name to Tytphop Crawford in honour of the captcha which allowed me to prove my essential non-spambothood.
Dragged kicking and screaming into a new era I was.
Sorry guys. At least the link still works, but I'll miss the banner...
File under: First world problems. This Internet thing has just about run its course. & Invective, schminvective.
