So observant people might see that I now have a contributing writer to both 'Rants & Raves' as well as 'Run: Side by Side'. His name is Phil. Confused? Don't worry I will explain but before I do let's have a quick history lesson.
Now for the longest time I have been using my optusnet email addy as my primary address. I signed up for everything and everywhere with my optusnet email. So my myspace, my facebook and youtube, you get the picture. They were all associated with my optusnet email. However for the longest time I always wanted to get rid or at least associate less things with my optusnet. One, it is an Australian email addy and the part after the @ was long and hard to explain to people. I mean optusnet.com.au, people are puzzled by the optusnet (since Optus is an Australian phone company that doesn't operate around the world) and second the au (standing for Australia) at the end had people thrown off as well. Another major issue I had with my optusnet was when I signed up for optusnet, the person whom set up my account, put my name down as Philip, yep with one L when my name is Phillip. So another problem emerged when I gave away my email address to anyone. People be like "Phillip, so it's one L as per your email?" and I will have to say "no it's two L's... the dude whom set me up, messed up". Annoying? yes it was.
So a couple weeks ago, inspired by how useful gmail was as I used another account, I decided to create a gmail address. I decided to make my gmail address a main address for all my stuff as well as a representation for my budding company. Hence apocryphicvisions@gmail.com was born. No more one L, no more optusnet, no more au. Gmail is a well known email provider now, it is up there with yahoo and hotmail. After that I started to associate all my websites I visted/ accounts with my gmail instead of my optusnet so it would force me to use it a lot more (I had another gmail account, many moons ago which feel into disrepair because I didn't use it due to reliance on my optusnet. I did not wanted to make that mistake again). A couple of them were easy as pie and now all my stuff is linked in a nice little bow. I can now be reading my latest email and automatically login to my YT account with a click of a button.
Then I noticed something. Blogger was one of the last things I signed up with my optusnet. An annoyance is when I am logged into my blogger under my optusnet email, my gmail and automatically log me out because of Goggles' multiple account/ one login theory. I would be flying blind if I was in middle of a long blog (which I do write) I could not know if I received a email in my gmail account, unless I logged out of my blogger first. It became a hassle and I wanted to not have to do it anymore.
So I tried to do what I have done with all my other sites/ account. Stop associating optusnet with blogger and associate it with my gmail instead and then we hit what I must say is the retarded thing ever. Goggle won't let me change my primary email address from optusnet to my gmail. Nope, no dice. I have no idea why it is like this but it is and it is annoying as Hell.
Hence we come back to original statement. It turns out I can't associate my gmail with my optusnet blog BUT I can make my gmail account a 'contributor'. Hence Phillip (optusnet) and Phil (gmail). Now I can check my emails, whilst surfing YT, whilst writing a blog on blogger. I just can't make any major changes unless I log into my 'primary' email address.
Ta da!!
pP
P.S now all I need to do is explain people who want my email addy how to spell Apocryphic... it's not that hard LOL
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