case sensitive

If you're reading this blog we're probably in the same boat as far as remembering dozens of passwords that continually change. I sign in with one to get on the internet, but once I'm there it doesn't end. It seems every site I go to requires another login and password.

Thinking i'd outsmart the madness, I initially tried using the same words for everything; then they all started demanding unique criteria...at least 8 characters...case sensitive...some alpha...some numeric...some both. And if that doesn't make you crazy, there are those that require you to change your passwords on a regular basis. The complexity continues.

Add to that a little paranoia that those other lizburts in the world might beat me to the username availability page of the next great website; or that my kids will figure out the best password that locks down iTunes or the parental controls (just hope they don't figure out its also the banking password) and I'll have to change everything around again. Its no wonder that I have found myself at the store checkout entering my student number rather than my bankcard pin; or that I can't answer the secret questions that will reveal the passwords I can't remember.

If you only knew the tangled intricacies I've spun to try to make memorable passwords only to lose my mind in the very labyrinth I have created. I thought these little tricks would help me remember them better, like Hansel and Grettle's crumbs, but they only make more things to forget...can't really explain it to you....'cause then I'd have to change my passwords all over again...