The Old Baguette has been trying to write a new post. Trying, trying, and trying. She couldn't sign in. Because she couldn't sign in, she couldn't get to her DASHBOARD and use her mouse to click on NEW POST. On Saturday, a hint of what was wrong emerged as exactly twenty-one friends called to say, "I just got this strange e-mail from you." Some were laughing that hysterical laugh, others sounded very tentative, and still others wanted details. According to this email, I was writing for help. I was stranded in Cyprus (Cyprus???). I had lost my ATM card and couldn't get money from my bank. I needed a loan of $2,800. That, my friends, is what can happen when one changes email addresses, and one's old address goes to someplace in the ether reserved for poor, abandoned email addresses. A greedy hacker can think, "I'll take that one. I'll create a scam to get money. Maybe someone will send me ten bucks." Whatever can be thought up can then be done.
Now why was my old address null and void? It was all the result of the inability of corporations to come to agreements that would keep their customers from suffering cruel and unusual punishment. My provider, which I've had since I bought my first computer, was bought out by a larger company. My first provider had an "arrangement" with MSN. MSN would provide my email. The new, larger company and MSN just couldn't agree about anything at all, so MSN went into a huff and sent our old email addresses into expiration land.
When I tried to sign in to write a new post, I was told I didn't have a blog. Well, that was a surprise. I couldn't figure out how to convince Google that I really did have a blog, so I did the next best thing. I
created a new one. A new one with the same name as the old one. The great Shakespeare scholar at Harvard when asked if Shakespeare or Bacon had written all those plays would respond: "They were either written by a man named William Shakespeare or by somebody else with the same name." I'm ashamed to admit that my computer sense is weak, but my problem solving sense is pretty good for an old baguette like me. Might as well brag a bit since so few will notice.
And I, my dear, have the honor of being your first new old blog follower. Well hopefully you will be able to blog on unimpeded. Good to have you back on-line, and to know that you really are not in Cypress trying to hussle all the Greek / Turk hunks over there.
ReplyDeleteOn our company website our employer has a quote of the day and one of my favorites is "Go Over, Go Under, Go Around, or go Through, But never give up!"
ReplyDeleteNot sure who came up with it, but that sounds like you. You couldn't access your old blog so you figured out a way to continue on! Good for you!