WE spend far too long trying to log in and out of places.

This week the boy decided he needed to log on to the Xbox internet. But to do so he had to prove to those jolly people at Xbox that I was in fact a human being.

Or they were just adding to their list of idiots.

After submitting my email and then several passwords which I had to repeat in case the machine wasn’t happy with my first effort, I was asked yet more questions.

Then I was asked what person from history I most admired. This would be asked in case I lost my password.

Then I was asked to submit another password in several characters and numbers and so forth.

The problem is most people use the same password for everything. For instance I use the words XXXX XXX for my password.

I have not printed the words not because I think someone will nick my password but due to the fact I am not permitted to print those particular words.

The whole process of logging in and remembering a new password is a complete waste of time.

To do something pointless requires a password now.

Even for something as mundane as reading something they want a stupid password and your details so they can send you more useless information.

We humans do not want to subscribe and we do not want to keep remembering XXXX XXX every time we want to pay the gas bill. I don’t want to log in anymore.

Logging on and then out and then in again is driving me nuts.

It is like the cash machine which asks you a whole series of options such as ‘Do you want to check your balance?’. No I don’t you gave me that option at the beginning and I declined. Just give me £5 so I can go spend it on a loaf of bread.

At the end of the Xbox log in they went and requested my credit card details. I was so incensed by this time that I pulled the plug out of the socket.