The Anonymous Widower

Logging In In France

On my recent trip to Bilbao and back, I spent three days in France and on the two mornings in Biarritz, I checked some of my Internet accounts, from a computer in the hotel’s Business Centre.

My major accounts have a system of logins and passwords that are stored in my Mark One brain, which means it is a system that is unbreakable without my being present. Nothing is written down, on or in anything I carry.

However, France with its bizarre keyboard layout, made some of the logins difficult. For instance to login to many accounts, you need to type an e-mail address, but that is not easy, as typing the @ sign is not a simple shift, but a control-alt keystroke.

Sometimes, France can get very annoying in the simplest of things, by going its own sweet way.

December 23, 2013 - Posted by | Computing, World | ,

2 Comments »

  1. If you think a French keyboard is difficult, try a Swedish one.

    Comment by John Wright | December 23, 2013 | Reply

  2. I have and they’re not as difficult as French ones, as all the common letters, numbers and punctuation I needed were obvious.

    What does say a French smartphone show?

    Comment by AnonW | December 23, 2013 | Reply


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