Can I say I wish I had photographic memory for passwords?
I wanted to blog last Tuesday, and so I zipped onto the computer, and then...
PLEASE ENTER PASSWORD.
Uh. Ok, Lessee. It's in my password book. Which is in my purse. Hmm.
Or my carry bag...
My coat?
Maybe it's in the back seat of the... Oh, crud... I left it at the house, on the table. I had put it NEXT to my purse, but not IN it. Ergo, when I left, it sat quietly, not letting me know I was leaving it. Unlike Ding, who meows and tries desperately to follow me out the door, and if that isn't possible, she tries to leave enough fur on my pant legs to let me know she's fluffy, for several hours after...
(I have images of the Sherlock episode where he's analyzing a gent, and figures out he has a dog. No, 2 dogs... I keep thinking he'd figure out I had a cat, chickens, and frequently walk in mud... However, he might think I raise sheep and goats, or pack rope, just as easily, with all my spinning fiber...)
So, I didn't get to blog this last week. We have had a doozy of rain here, even for Oregon... And I think everyone and their dog, and their dog's dog, must have been streaming movies. We could just NOT get on line much. So, I made a POINT of putting the password book in the purse...
And yes, it's probably not the best method of keeping the things straight, but until they can make it so I don't have so many passwords, that are supposed to be random combinations of digits, numbers, and symbols, and they can't be less than six long, yada yada yada... I have to be able to remember the doofy things somehow! So, I will do up a few for this week.
Since I can get in, today. I keep thinking of the bit I saw about photographic memory. I have it, but I just don't have film in the camera... :)
3 comments:
Pick your favorite song, for the sake of ease (and because the guy who wrote the article used this example), let's pretend your favorite is Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
Your basic password would be the initial letters of the words of the first line of the song: RTRNRHAVSN (Rudoph the Red Nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose.)
Now decide which letters you will capitalize, and put numbers in front and in back of it. The man who wrote the article about making a great, but memorable, password said he used the month he created whatever account in front, so if he made an account in April he'd start it with a 4, and the year at the end, so if he created it in 2017, he would put 17 at the end.
The best part about doing this is you can use the first line of your favorite song, and then the second line, and associate one with certain websites, say financial, and the other with email websites, and even use the third line for sites where you make purchases, etc.
Or you can just use the basic one. All you have to do is remember what number you gave each site, and what letters you capitalized.
Just don't tell anyone what song you used, and it would be almost impossible for anyone to just guess your password, but you'd have a pretty doggone good idea of it whether it's written down or not.
I have a spreadsheet of passwords save on my Google Drive - that way I can access it from my phone. I'm awful remembering them, too!
I have used the song lyric one, my problem is, I forget and use a different song, or spend too much time trying to remember which line of the song... But it IS a good idea. I just don't seem to have the brain power for it...
And I haven't tried Google Drive, I guess I figure it's just as easy for me to write the silly thing down. And ironically, don't you need a password, to get into your drive... To get the passwords? That would be my luck... But it would work!
Cat
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