Are you sure it wasnāt feathers and wax
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I was too young to remember Icarusā¦just a babe in arms.
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Rembering what was in you wallet then trying to get an afidavit from a lawyer before you can go to the police then, to the bank to get a new card, trying to cancel uk cards from the philippines and them saying they cant post it to the philippines and can they send it to my uk address. Unable to organise a new driving licence as they want a payment and all your cards are cancelled. And all the other shit that was in the wallet that you didnt realise. Work permit card air miles cards philippine tax number.
I just hope the bastard got screwed when they tried to convert the Malaysian Ringet to Peso.
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We had a puppy once that ate my DMs, a peach cashmere jumper (didnāt like the colour) and had a good chew on the patchwork quilt my grandmother made me before I was born. 
Still loved the pup to bits.
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Migraines. Iāve not had one in a long time. Used to have them a lot as a teenager and into my early 30s.
Had one last night that started in the last hour of the Foo Fighters set. Not ideal. The car journey back was hard. Thought Iād need to vomit. I was covered in dust so no chance of just crashing in bed. 2 strong painkillers and bed and feel human this am.
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Yep you cant help but love them.
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People that ask questions to which they already know the answer to.
One of my clients is going through a major rebranding. In preparation for this, we have re-skinned our development site to see what it looks like.
āGreat jobā, says the boss.
Another mush gets in. āWhatās happened to DEV?ā (it has a new logo on it). Before anyone answers, heās like āare we rebrandingā (yes, this has been a thing for the last three months. The vans have all been getting new livery).
Phew, thatās over, I think. Not so.
I did some free work in the office today and announce that I am in the office on social media.
Him: āAre you in our local officeā
Me (no longer able to contain sarcasm): āNo, I have walked to our most remote oneā
Aaaaaargh!
The different logins that you have to use for fucking everything and then they change every 6 fucking weeks āapart from Sotoniansā it is a fuckinking nightmare especially as i lost my wallet and have to change every password i ever had to something completely insane that consists of 3 numbers a consonent and vowel plus a symbol and a letter possibly a number and you need at least eight of the little fuckers.
For god sake
P@55word1)( is good enough for fucking anything just accept i can remember that.
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How do you keep a 6 month old pup quiet for 10 days?
Little Miss Molly had her Hysterectomy yesterday and now weāre under instructions to stop her jumping up on furniture, running up and down the steps into the garden and short walks only around the roads.
Very sleepy yesterdayā¦up and attem today. 
And Molly?
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The same. 
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Pput Brandy in the winalot slows them all down.
Actually, I read an interesting article yesterday that making people have complex passwords and making them change them every 6 months is more insecure than having them not change it. Also forcing people to have a number means they just increment the number the next time they change their password.
Enforce complexity because itās harder to hack but if they donāt have to change them they donāt write them down on post-its etc. etc. etc.
Hereās a tip, if you need a strong password think of 3 small words e.g. House John Lager, join them together and add a special character and a number somewhere. Easy to remember
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I have completely fucked work IT by laminating an A4 sheet of passwords I need for for or my back to back does and it is left by the desk top computer. You cant do that cry IT yes I can
Its against our policy say IT
It may be
Please advise how I can tell my Back to back what the passwords are if I cannot write them down and we have 10 minutes handover in the helilounge ?
Aaaagghh we dont know.
Well fuck you they are are going to be laminated thenā¦
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The whole council just had to do 2 step authentication recently as some idiot (apparently ones who know better - I took that as senior managers) clicked on a dodgy email. I wasnt sure why a 2 step thing would stop dodgy emails ans idiots still clicking on he links.
Most of us dont have work mobiles in our office so had to use our own. Which annoyed a bunch of people.
Lol.
I hear this so many times from people and there is a simple (ish) solution. Iāve shared it here before but couldnāt find it but I wrote the following for a bunch of non-technical people that use a system I wrote for the school where I work - changed for a Saints context.
This first bit is the bit youāll need to work hard at remembering but once youāve done that your problems are solved. Probably.
Making a forever password
Pick a random stream of 6-8 letters and numbers that somehow mean something to you, make at least one of the letters a capital, but not all of them, and insert two punctuation marks (!"Ā£$%^&*:;@ā~#<,>.?/) at regular intervals
An example for a Saints fan.
76@mLT!7
Now you must remember this because it will become your password base. Youāll use it for all your future passwords.
Iād recommend saying the password to yourself in a sort of rhyme with a regular rhythm.
Seventy-Six AT Emm Capital L Capital T Pling* Seven
Then, when you need a password, prepend the name of the site/app/system plus a colon to the base password.
So, if you needed a password for Sotonians, it would becomeā¦
sotonians:76@mLT!7
For Instagram?
insta:76@mLT!7
For Amazon?
amazon:76@mLT!7
For Gmail?
gmail:76@mLT!7
For Work?
work:76@mLT!7
And so on.
Obviously, these seem very long and cumbersome but if you ask your browser to remember them then youāll hardly ever need to type them in.
Now, when the work system tells you that you need to change your password, just add a number to the āworkā prefix so it becomes:
work2:76@mLT!7
work3:76@mLT!7
work4:76@mLT!7
etc.
So from now on, you work hard at remembering the base password but you never write it down anywhere. However, it doesnāt matter if you write the prefix down somewhere.
Sotonians -> sotonians
Instagram -> insta
Amazon -> amazon
Gmail -> gmail
Work -> work4
You can even email these to yourself when they change.
So when your work password is changed, you drop a quick email to yourself.
TO: future bletch
FROM: present bletch
SUBJECT: New password - work
MESSAGE: 25/8/19 changed to work4
If one day you canāt remember the password for a system, just search your email for it.
There are some very technical reasons why having a very complex and likely unique password is a good thing.
Ensuring that the password you use is different across lots of different sites is also important. Itās not easy for a hacker to work out a complex password - especially if itās unique in the world.
* Pling is an ancient geek term for an exclamation mark.
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Have they never heard of LastPass, you and your back2back only have to share one password then and that would be the password for LastPass.
There are other password storing tools out there, I personally use Albineās Blur because of the Chrome extension and ad blocking facilities, YMMV
Its not so much the one password its the changing of them about 30 every 6 weeks because of IT rules and cyber security. It is just a nonsense.
Yep - I also use last Pass
You have one master password for that site and it allocated a different 16 character random password for every site
It holds it in an encrypted vault and phone and browser add ins make life easy