Thursday, April 03, 2008

Infinite Authentication Loop

So I'm out posting comments on a friend's blog, and decide to see what my profile looks like. So I click on my own name. Of course, when I do that, it says that I have to enable my profile. So I decide to enable it. Then it says, "You are using the old Blogger, would you like to claim your old blog in your current account?" So I say yes. I didn't remember that I even had an old blog. So I got it, and sure enough, I had an old blog. But I hadn't posted anything on my old blog, it's just a template, with no data. Well, I tell it to merge my old blog with my google account. It tells me to enter my login/password for my old blog, I do that. Then I click continue, and it tells me to sign into my google account. I do that. Then it asks me if I want to merge my old blog with my google account. I say yes, it asks me to enter my old blog password. I do that, and it asks me to sign in to my google account. I do that, and it asks me if I want to merge my old blog. I say yes... There's a cycle happening here, I know it... So after clicking in a circle for about 5 minutes, I realize that it's not going to go anywhere. So I decide to give up. I wander around the lobby of the internet for a while, before coming back, and clicking help. Then I have them send me an email to recover my old password. The email is on its way. The email postman was a little late, so I had to wait around by my mailbox. When it finally came, I clicked through, and it finally worked. So Here I am, back in my old blog that I had completely forgotten that I'd created and left to fester in the back of the cyber-refrigerator.

So now I'm posting on it, and nobody will read it, so that's kinda fun. If you do read this, I'm very sorry. Maybe someday, I'll post something of significance. Maybe not. Maybe I'll post this, and then 2 years from now, I'll go log into my google account and it will ask me if I want to merge my old blog with my account. I'll say yes, and enter an infinite loop of authentification, before finally realizing what a pathetic little blog I have here. Yay!