Is it just me or are downvoted posts completely unreadable? It would be nice if there were an "unhide" button or something; it's extremely annoying to have to squint to read it.
That's intentional. Downvoted posts fade both to save people from reading them (presumably most are mistaken or nasty) and to damp the submitter's karma loss (the fainter they are, the harder you have to work to be offended by them).
I think to myself in the first person sometimes, in the second person at others, and even as a group occasionally.
For example my thoughts look like, "I should work from home today", or "Bill, you're a genius", or sometimes like "Why don't we just go see if there's any ice cream left..."
I've found 1Password (http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password) to be a great solution to this. It automatically generates passwords for you and saves logins on an encrypted file. The only problem I've found with it is that when you go to use a friend's computer or a public computer you don't always know your passwords. A web service version of it would be convenient, but the security implications are obvious..
For the sake of a working solution I also just store passwords in encrypted files (using encfs, though) and stop worrying about accessing everything from my non-main computers.
Script for new passwords follows, for the fun of it. I have stuff added afterwards to save the username, website, and password to encrypted files.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import string
from random import Random
okchars = string.letters + string.digits + "!@%^_&*+-"
print ''.join( Random().sample(okchars, 40) )