3.14

[cerealjoe]

The bane of modern life: the damn master password that you have to change every couple of months and you can't use anything that even closely resembles the five previous passwords. And then you wonder why people write down their passwords down and put them under the keyboard! At least they're only asking me to change the master password... the other three passwords required for work can forever be the same, or so I hope. The other thing I hate is phone numbers, I only remember one phone number and that is the home land line which hasn't changed for years and which was the one phone number to remember because back in the day we didn't have cellphones for everything. I actually don't even know my cell phone number, it's written on the back of the phone. I do know pi to a ridiculous decimal place though. Speaking of modern things, if you want to see some modern art (like the one above), there are funky statues in Tuileries. Unless they've already taken them down, I can never remember the end dates of things.

Comments

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

I humbly suggest picking a favorites amid a subject (ex: music) then adding numbers to them. Switching to a new first name each should create enough of a difference. You could also choose something like desserts -- stick with a theme that happens to have different nouns.

That statue looks like a stocking blowing in the wind. :p

[cerealjoe.livejournal.com]

The guy who came with the algorithm and criteria for the passwords had a field day, there are lines and lines of things you can't have... the best I've found so far is to take a random sentence and just take the first or last letters and add a few slashes, numbers and -/+ signs. Every couple of weeks for some reason I forget that I changed the password and I sit there for half an hour trying to figure out just why I can't log on, the wonders of certain mornings.

The bottom of that statue is actually made up of mangled shopping carts and I have yet to fully understand the meaning. But hey, it's always fun to see this kind of stuff among the classic statues in Tuileries!

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

Weird. Sounds worthy of the CIA!

Shopping carts, you say? Perhaps a commentary of consumerism versus how the exact same shopping item becomes homes for the fringes of society.

[cerealjoe.livejournal.com]

We used to have this really awesome techy guy and he'd give a really long prep talk about IT security when you were first hired... so maybe he contributed to the password criteria. These days the new ones tell me they don't get such talks anymore but we still get some almost paranoid emails from the IT guys from time to time :D