In our times,the whole calender year appears encroached & a kind of crowded to my eyes with almost all 365 days marked with 'U' day,'Me' day & the 'gay' day without sparing a single day free.Most of which obnoxiously sound silly days to me like,u know what I mean.Considering my pathetically past poor experiences in managing all my passwords in life i was happy to come across the password day of my life which was indeed quite a relieving day,I declare.
In an attempt to keep in touch with interesting buddies,old pals & secretly store few personal things,like every teenager on earth,I too opened a personal mail account which demanded a secret key to the free lock in the name of a password.So I framed my favourite string of characters (mmm ... should i reveal it ?Mm ... i don't see any harm here) 'chocopie' as password which otherwise might have been my own name,if my parents had thoughts of consulting me during my naming ceremony.
Soon as a style statement I opened yet another free account with a leading search engine empire in the world.To make my life simple,i framed the same string of characters as pwd to this one as well.Then these chat engine interfaces,u know,they too ask for pwds for security purpose.Damn,I use the same chocopie,for these as well.
For some reason,one fine day a cousin of mine came to know about my chocopie and in a hurry i secretly edited my pwd as nochocopie.For the next few times,it used to throw me errors on typing my old 'chocopie'.But now itz all going good with my new 'nochocopie'
Being employed within the four firewalls of an Information Technology world,I necessarily had to reserve at least 2 blocks of space in my memory just to remember the following inevitable passwords in my life.
Early in the morning a pwd to unlock my locked computer,a password to open my mailbox,a password to connect to my client network,a password to open my mailbox provided by the client,a pwd to open my unix home directory,a password to access the problem tracking tool and yet another if you want to be part of the company's social networking site & flaunt your latest pictures.
If i have to book my train tickets, even the Indian Railways ask for a password.Then for having committed the sin of just hopping from one company to another,i landed up having accounts with 3 different private banks.The total count today stands as 4 money cards with one being a credit card among them.So the cc requires yet another password apart from remembering a 3 digit cvv number which has completely disappeared after swiping it sufficiently good enough for the digits to vanish.So the crammed space is left with no mercy but to remember these additional 3 digits.
Then the 3 remaining bank ATM cards demand me to religiously remember their 4 digit pin and a 8+ net banking password.While i believe i have listed all the inevitably existing passwords in my life,just wondering if i left anything to list.Oh ya on mom's request i did open 2 more for mom to keep in touch with her kids,friends & students.And i have the additional responsibility of remembering them as well, since she doesn't check her mails regularly & there is a vulnerability of her forgetting them.
With all these complicated accounts existing in a life like mine,if u are asking me why don't i synchronize all my passwords to one easy to remember string of characters like 'Ihatemypwds',lemme tell you, blessings like these never happen.The bank accounts,the comp at office & each & every pwd created on client's domain expect the account holders to change their passwords every quarter,month,fortnight & on account expiration date set.In a haste i simply append digits like 1,2 or even 123 to it or sometimes !@#$ & in between all the juggling that happens within those two blocks of reserved space in the brain,the dump gets badly corrupted,words jumbled most of the time & needless to say that the chances of recovery are quite slim.
In an attempt to keep in touch with interesting buddies,old pals & secretly store few personal things,like every teenager on earth,I too opened a personal mail account which demanded a secret key to the free lock in the name of a password.So I framed my favourite string of characters (mmm ... should i reveal it ?Mm ... i don't see any harm here) 'chocopie' as password which otherwise might have been my own name,if my parents had thoughts of consulting me during my naming ceremony.
Soon as a style statement I opened yet another free account with a leading search engine empire in the world.To make my life simple,i framed the same string of characters as pwd to this one as well.Then these chat engine interfaces,u know,they too ask for pwds for security purpose.Damn,I use the same chocopie,for these as well.
For some reason,one fine day a cousin of mine came to know about my chocopie and in a hurry i secretly edited my pwd as nochocopie.For the next few times,it used to throw me errors on typing my old 'chocopie'.But now itz all going good with my new 'nochocopie'
Being employed within the four firewalls of an Information Technology world,I necessarily had to reserve at least 2 blocks of space in my memory just to remember the following inevitable passwords in my life.
Early in the morning a pwd to unlock my locked computer,a password to open my mailbox,a password to connect to my client network,a password to open my mailbox provided by the client,a pwd to open my unix home directory,a password to access the problem tracking tool and yet another if you want to be part of the company's social networking site & flaunt your latest pictures.
If i have to book my train tickets, even the Indian Railways ask for a password.Then for having committed the sin of just hopping from one company to another,i landed up having accounts with 3 different private banks.The total count today stands as 4 money cards with one being a credit card among them.So the cc requires yet another password apart from remembering a 3 digit cvv number which has completely disappeared after swiping it sufficiently good enough for the digits to vanish.So the crammed space is left with no mercy but to remember these additional 3 digits.
Then the 3 remaining bank ATM cards demand me to religiously remember their 4 digit pin and a 8+ net banking password.While i believe i have listed all the inevitably existing passwords in my life,just wondering if i left anything to list.Oh ya on mom's request i did open 2 more for mom to keep in touch with her kids,friends & students.And i have the additional responsibility of remembering them as well, since she doesn't check her mails regularly & there is a vulnerability of her forgetting them.
With all these complicated accounts existing in a life like mine,if u are asking me why don't i synchronize all my passwords to one easy to remember string of characters like 'Ihatemypwds',lemme tell you, blessings like these never happen.The bank accounts,the comp at office & each & every pwd created on client's domain expect the account holders to change their passwords every quarter,month,fortnight & on account expiration date set.In a haste i simply append digits like 1,2 or even 123 to it or sometimes !@#$ & in between all the juggling that happens within those two blocks of reserved space in the brain,the dump gets badly corrupted,words jumbled most of the time & needless to say that the chances of recovery are quite slim.
And there are accounts which we all don't regularly visit but we do check them at crucial times,for example my Bank Account#1 which I bother to open only to see if interest on my Capital gets credited :).Though a joyous feeling on seeing extra money credited,possible only if i remember my password promptly.Otherwise am thrown a message in red bold letters saying something that i hate to see and have seen ample number of times by now.Though you might know what it is,lemme take the pleasure of revealing it to you one more time 'Ur pwd is locked'.Locked meaning it requires calling up a sequence of customer care guys,for a series of days sometimes months just to hear that we got to go in person and drop a form that is fully filled with all possible unimportant statistical data about my existence on earth.Due to some self refusal,I have not had access to so many accounts of mine for months or even years together.
There came a day in the recent past when,like a series of green signals glowing at all traffic signals giving way to reset some 6-7 passwords,pin and gain authentication back to all my inactive accounts on the same day without having to walk up to any outlet or fill any form and drop anywhere.I proudly declared such a day to be my password day and know what? I don't trust my 2 blocks of corrupted memory space anymore.I write them all in a mail and send it to my newly opened account on a free site called 'Remember your Passwords'.Oops .... what the hell was the password for that account ?
