stayingafloat: April 2006

I think things like our passwords can tell a lot about us.

First is the matter of the password itself. The literal meaning, the area it draws from, its connect in our lives. It can be quite telling about our moods and swings.

And then our behaviour with our passwords. People who have the same password for forever and people who change their passwords every fortnight. At the obvious rational level, this behaviour tells us about peoples varied security needs. How some people take security for granted and others may be paranoid. At a sublime level about peoples need for stability, change avoidance etc. Given that their lives may be changing at what seems to them to be an alarming pace.

There are people who are liberal with their passwords and people who would guard their passwords with a passion similar to that of the black cads. Cover the keyboard, look over their shoulder, a sight which is quite amusing. Maybe correlated with their willingness/ unwillingness to share their lives with others, or maybe a need for attention, to be drawn out.

Ok back to the word in the password. My passwords for one are normally titles of songs. Titles which mostly tell a tale. My first password and a password which stuck for a long time was ontopoftheworld. Yup that is the way I felt. From there it moved to comfortablynumb. A song I hadn't even heard. Then there were Iamabarbie girl, asmallworld, mannkilagan all of which enjoyed brief stints. And then for a longish time it has been lemontree. Why lemontree? Well the inspiration is fool's gardens single. What gets me is the upbeat tone on this otherwise mopey number. That's me for now. (Sidenote: when you read the lyrics sing along for the upbeat tone)

I'm sitting here in the boring room
It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon
I'm wasting my time, I got nothing to do
I'm hanging around, I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens and I wonder

I wonder how I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
I'm turning my head up and down
I'm turning turning turning turning turning around
And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree

Ok onto another thing . Which can again quite tell our lives, moods and swings - cellphone wallpapers.

And so telling the past six months through my motorazor.

Cool Quotient, November 05