A year of work in progress – day 47

Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker

Day 47 – 12 March 2014

Management Wednesday and what is worse it was also password change day.  It used to be so easy, your pet’s name, your address or your favourite holiday destination.  Stick a number on the end if you needed to change it.  Now it has to have capitals, numbers, Cyrillic script and other symbols jumbled up in ways that would satisfy a GCHQ cryptographer and it changes every three months.  For weeks now I’ve known it was coming.  Then I’ve got to make sure I change my other devices so that they are in sync. 

I’ve been getting reminders, friendly at first but increasingly menacing and I can’t put it off any longer.  I’ll not tell you what I’ve chosen as that would defeat the object.

Senior Management Team was interesting as there were only three of us.  Bob was off and Steve was delivering one…

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