More Passwords to Remember

I suppose I should no longer be surprised as more and more of life moves onto the Internet. The things I can do online would have been unimaginable a decade ago. Within the last month, I've filed my taxes, booked flights and hotel stays, entered BCIT grades, facebooked with friends globally, and triggered a prescription refill at my pharmacy.


So, it should come as no shock that New Westminster, BC is now making my tax and electricity bills accessible though a new city portal. The advantages of going online means that past, as well as current, information become available. I can review records from previous years. In some cases, these systems do not deal with legacy transactions. For example, at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, I can only review personal contract data back through 2004. Old printed copies are really not nearly as convenient. Although there have been years of prognostication, paper is truly beginning to become passé.