As is normally the case I've been pondering this old blog of mine, and cursing myself
for not being more creative and consistent in the updates I make.I beat myself up, with good ideas flashing through my head - "more about City", "how crazy was that news report", "I really must record more of what my boys do and say" - and then when it comes to putting fingers to keys (or whatever the new fangled way of saying "pen to paper"), I never seem to get round to it.
I would normally blame Spider Solitaire or Angry Birds on Facebook.
Well I finally have sat down to do something, logged into "Blogger" and am imediately hit by one of my (many) pet hates.
It's all changed.
Under the banner "we've made some improvements" it's asking for my mobile phone number. How this will help the blog I don't know, but apparently it'll help with how secure everything is in my life. It was under a sub heading "What would happen if you lost your G-mail account?"
I'm presuming the point was,m that I should feel that some kind of armageddon based end of life as I know it would come about, with my wife leaving me, the car exploding (again) and my children finally driving me around the bend before they run off to a) take over the world or b)Join the circus (or possibly both).
I thought about these dire circumstances, and pushed myself hard to face up to the question as to what I would actually do if I lost my G-mail account.
Gee. I guess I'd sign up for another one. Having never used said account, I think I may be just abouyt able to cope with a Russian Mafia syndicate, a Somalian band of pirates, or even worse, someone from Google pretending to be me.
In fact I don't normally pretend to be me. As a rule I pretend to be "Paul Handford". Now I know this blog goes under the name of Phil Handford, but those who know me intimately (i.e. everyone except the in-laws) knows my real name is Paul.
But when I pretend to be Paul Handford, I've found a far more exciting front. This is Paul Handford the Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolution Group, Biology Department, of the University of Western Ontario.
Boom.
Not exactly Batman to Bruce wayne, but pretty cool I'm sure you'd agree. There's even pictures of birds on his home page, and his hobbies listed as Morris Dancing.
The clincher is that he really could be me in 15 years. Okay 5 years.If you don't believe me go here - Paul Handford's Home Page
Anyway, time to sign off and go play Angry Birds, I promise to be back soon before everything changes and my life has been taken over by the moonies stealing my internet connection...
