Eye See Cue
Aug. 2nd, 2006 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqI ran into a snag when I was installing Trillian on my new laptop; I couldn't remember my ICQ password. They assigned me a new one (an unsightly mix of numbers and letters) after my account got hacked 3-4 years ago, but I have never got around to writing it down or memorizing it (it's one of those r2bK0kcX9e monstrosities). Without the password, I'd have no way to activate the account on my notebook. Inasmuch as I take pride in such things, my inner geek likes having a low UIN in ICQ (334625), so creating a new account wasn't an option for me.
Fortunately I had a message from them in Hotmail with my "new" password from the last time I'd changed it.
Unfortunately I apparently deleted that message along with some spam within the last few weeks.
Fortunately they still have that "change password" feature on their website.
Unfortunately it no longer seems to work - leastwise it no longer recognizes any email address I've ever owned as being valid.
What to do? In the back of my mind, the little voice that usually screams obscenities and tells me to kill people said, "Didn't you recognize your own ineptitude a couple of years ago and back up that message someplace?" I couldn't remember the actual act of doing so, but neither could I shake the certainty that I had. It took a couple days of digging, but I eventually found a copy of the message buried deep in one of the folders on my work account. Hurrah for anticipating my own failings!
This morning I finished the downloads for the HL2 suite, and applied the last patch to WoW. I have a couple of other titles to install, but I'm in pretty good shape for the next LAN party. This will be SO much nicer than packing along my desktop!
Fortunately I had a message from them in Hotmail with my "new" password from the last time I'd changed it.
Unfortunately I apparently deleted that message along with some spam within the last few weeks.
Fortunately they still have that "change password" feature on their website.
Unfortunately it no longer seems to work - leastwise it no longer recognizes any email address I've ever owned as being valid.
What to do? In the back of my mind, the little voice that usually screams obscenities and tells me to kill people said, "Didn't you recognize your own ineptitude a couple of years ago and back up that message someplace?" I couldn't remember the actual act of doing so, but neither could I shake the certainty that I had. It took a couple days of digging, but I eventually found a copy of the message buried deep in one of the folders on my work account. Hurrah for anticipating my own failings!
This morning I finished the downloads for the HL2 suite, and applied the last patch to WoW. I have a couple of other titles to install, but I'm in pretty good shape for the next LAN party. This will be SO much nicer than packing along my desktop!
