I was flicking through a book earlier. You were what! I hear you cry. Actually I had a book on my desk and as I went to move it I noticed it had an interesting sticky feel to it as I attemped to peel it from the desk surface. You’ve probably guessed already and this wouldn’t be the first time but my colleague who sits at the desk next to mine would seem to have had another coffee incident - and had cleaned it up to the point where his desk finished and mine started. Nice.

The book, ‘Applied Microsoft Windows .Net Framework Programming’ by Jeffrey Richter was won by my goodself at a Microsoft Roadshow recently many thanks to those nice guy at Nxtgenuk User Group.

Anyway, the book’s introduction talks about the benefits of .Net and describes Passport as being one identity for everything you do and “you only need to enter it once”. Excuse me? I can’t recall the countless times I’ve had to enter my Passport username and password. If I want to check my Hotmail, Live Account, Beta Status, Technet or anything else there I am - ‘please enter your passport details’.

Mind you I’d much rather have one account than the hundreds I have to jiggle around in my brain every day. It always amuses me when I get just three attempts at a password before being locked out. Three attempts may have been fine in the days when you only had half a dozen accounts but nowadays … come on … if I don’t visit a site for a few days then I’m afraid all memory of it is gone. What is the answer? I suppose I could write them all down. Noooooooooo….