Mooching about with passwords, encryption, thumbdrives etc..

I reached the point ages ago when I could no longer remember all the login ids, usernams, passwords, passcodes, PINs, passphrases, email addresses, credit card details etc., that "modern" techie life entails.

I've dabbled with different ways of storing/recording/saving various details in different forms, in different places, with different levels of not-so-obvious relationships between them so that their use is not immediately obvious. In other words, I dont' write down something like: username and password for the mailserver hosted by Verio: root f9867!%#lf86, namsayin?

But it's high time I worked out a relatively safe, easy to use way of keeping all this stuff organised.

Sooo.. I am fiddling about with some apps that encrypt all such data so that the whole schlemiel can be carried on a secure thumbdrive as well as syncronised with my Smartphone and my Palm and any other PDA I might have, in a way that doesn't mean anybody who steals/finds/buys one of these devices instantly has access to everything in my life.

And, oh yeah, I'm gonna needs some kind of Bluetooth keyboard to use with the Xphone and/or with a "real man's" PDA for those inevitable "the server's gone down and you have to SSH into if over WiFi from a coffee shop and save the day!" moments.

I'll let you know how I get on.