Managing your online identity

Here's the one thing I hate about using the web - all the passwords I have to remember to access various internet services. From Facebook, Gmail and Flickr to Amazon, ASB online and my Inland Revenue account, I need to enter a password and user name to log on. I have a different one for each and they are just a handful of the websites I visit. That's a long list of passwords and I change them regularly which complicates things further.

I could get my web browser to remember the passwords and plug them in automatically. I could use the identity safe feature in Norton internet Security to lock away my numerous passwords in a digital safe and plug them in automatically. But I'm too paranoid for that. What if someone cracked the safe? All my passwords would be compromised.

The result is that half the time the secret code has to be emailed to me because I've forgotten it.