bloggery gone awry: Internetoverload

Thursday, February 24, 2005

Internetoverload

Grrr....

I feel as if I have too much going on in the realm of the internet, and I feel as if it's just the tip of the iceberg and that it's only going to get worse!

Hundreds of different passwords and usernames have something to do with it. Like those sites that say "passwords must be 9 characters long" when your favorite username/password combo only has 7 characters. Argh!

And I realize that it's sinful to use the same username/password combo for different sites; however, is it really realistic to think you can remember all of these things without writing them down? Then when you write them down, where do you put them? Luckily I've been able to keep most of them straight for the time being, but a few more and I'm just going to give up. Come this April, maybe I'll have to hack&slash off some of the fat since this list is just too long:

Emails
~ work alias, old domain
~ work alias, new domain
~ work alias, junkmail
~ junkmail alias - yahoo account for msn etc...
~ isp email account
~ gmail - trying it out, but it STILL won't work with my pop3 :(
~ school - grad account forwarder
~ marketing team - group gmail account shared by team members
~ associations - different forwaders for different clubs/positions
~ blog posting email
~ gallery posting emails
Total: 18 different emails, all with different username/password combos

Other Junk
~ home computer
~ laptop computer
~ work accounts
~ school account (computer logon)
~ school account (registrar account info)
~ wireless Lan admin site
~ dsl internet admin site
~ blog
~ old tripod website
~ old school website
~ association websites
~ photo gallery for blogpics
~ internet banking
~ internet investments
~ subscription services
~ utility online billing accounts
~ online bulletin boards
~ and the list goes on...
Total: 25 or more username/password combos, (and that includes accounting for the fact that some logins and emails are under the same account)

That's all I can think of off the top of my head, and I'm sure there are more, but for now I really want to get outside so I'm headed out to skate the canal.

Regards,
J.

processed for posting at 5:01 p.m. | 1 comments | Post a Comment

NO kidding, I too and finding it exceedingly difficult to remember all of the user names and passwords. For instance, last week I signed up for a Gmail account not only can I not remember my password but I don't know my new email address either. If you could help me out that would be Great!
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Anonymous, 9:38 a.m.