>If anyone was so idle as to read my blog, you may have to find some other pastime. The google has behaved very suspiciously, claimed "unusual activity on my account" and basically denied me access to it (includes gmail, blog and some things in a calendar - the panoramio and youtube I have already cleaned up, i.e. deleted). The ransom is my cell phone number, to which I strongly feel the google is not entitled. They offer a well hidden alternative (two pages away, link looks like a policy explanation but actually leads to password help), but there it claims that they don't have my other email in the database. Well I have their email from nine years ago sent to that address, and I don't believe a google can lose data. They may have too much, but never a lack.
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>Which is all fine and dandy, they can do whatever they want, but if they want my cell phone number, they can shove it, I'm voting with my feet.
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>Whether the blog will reappear elsewhere, I don't know. I'll think about it.

Interesting, I've got the same issue, my account was disabled on Sunday 5:11 AM due to "unusual activity on my account" from an unknown location. Google had my phone anyways as I needed to activate long videos on youtube (I was surprised to find out they had like 25000 hits eventhough they are private!) so I fix the issue quickly and I changed my password. But yesterday I commented this to a friend and he told me he uses a two way authentication, where he not only puts the password but also a number that changes every minute or so, unfortunately we did not have time for him to show me, but he told me the service is called authenticator, I still did not look for it, you might want to take a look at it too. (well, not really, I just googled it and it uses SMS :))