A computer password like no other.

It is the little things that we do, that reveal, at times, the complexities of what goes on within us. There are signs and signals of inner life, in the merest of things that we do.

Today, I found out something quite curious. Ainan has his own laptop computer, which he rather enjoys surfing the internet on, or, indeed, playing computer games with, usually in the company of his brother, Fintan. Today, Ainan thought to show me his password. It was 48 characters long, consisting of a seemingly random assortment of letters and numbers. It was not a word. It was not any recognizable set of characters...it was just a long string of unexpectedness.

Now, I found myself somewhat amused that he should choose such a long character string for his computer. He had done so, partly, as a game with his brother Fintan. Up until a couple of days ago, Fintan had known the password to Ainan's computer (only 12 digits long)...but, as a bit of fun, Ainan decided to change it to something that Fintan, five, would not be likely to follow. Hence the string of letters and digits of no sense at all. Ainan saw a certain hilarity in it.

The funny thing is, of course, not the joke that Ainan himself perceives - but that Ainan finds it no trouble to recall such a long string of alphanumeric rubbish.

Now, if there were only a use in this world, for the memory of alphanumeric rubbish...apart from unbreakable passwords, of course!

(If you would like to learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy, aged eight years and seven months, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, five years exactly, and Tiarnan, twenty-eight months, please go to: http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html I also write of gifted education, IQ, intelligence, the Irish, the Malays, Singapore, College, University, Chemistry, Science, genetics, left-handedness, precocity, child prodigy, child genius, baby genius, adult genius, savant, wunderkind, wonderkind, genio, гений ребенок prodigy, genie, μεγαλοφυία θαύμα παιδιών, bambino, kind.

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