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Saturday morning disgruntlement

Two things annoyed me this morning.

Thing 1. Google. Specifically, Google Apps. Since switching to Google Apps, it has rapidly become an authentication bane of my life. Wanna share your Google calendar, use it in Thunderbird? Fine, except if it’s a Google Apps calendar, where you can’t authenticate with your Google Apps username. Wanna sign in to Google App Engine? Nope, not if you’re a Google Apps user.

Let’s be absolutely clear here: I pay Google money in order to use Google Apps and host my email with them, and as a result I can’t authenticate with their other services, except by using a free account? FAIL. (Except they won’t fail, because people keep throwing them piles of cash, and clearly no-one is accountable since this has been a problem ever since Google Apps came out in August 2006. Which on internet time is, like, 20 years ago.)

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World of Goo screenshot

Thing 2. Nintendo. I’ve been patiently (well, not very patiently) awaiting the release of the wondertastic World of Goo for what seems like forever (about a week). I was delighted to read on the website that it’s available on the Wii as well as via Steam for the PC. That’s great: need to reboot the laptop away from Mac OS X and my fights with Google in order to play it, I can just fire up the console. Not so fast, sunshine.

Nintendo announced World of Goo is available, listed it on their website with a release date of last Monday, and so I rushed to the Wii Shop to buy it. Is it available? No. It looks like Nintendo have a UK-specific list of WiiWare games, all 27 of them, while the US list of WiiWare games shows 37, including World of Goo. Nintendo, you suck.

Thus has my morning of geek hackery and gaming been tainted, nay, ruined, by the incompetence and malice of Google and Nintendo.

I think I need another cup of tea.


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