realizing that geeks are more than...

more than RCs, SPs, and IRC. we are people who live outside the world of routers, switches, firewalls, VoIP, and troubleshooting.

we are GAMERS!!!

from chess, checkers, and othello to resident evil, ghost recon, and worms. we are also part of the gaming community and i will be sure to begin touching on that soon.

with the economy as it is and a good chunk of us going onto unemployment... where else can we vent our initial frustrations?

my buddy, KeePass [freeware]

let's talk about password security. are you like me and are paranoid that someone is going to see a password of yours and run through all your files and destroy you? it's okay if you're not, it may just be me spending too much time in the realm of network security. however, if you do have a billion different passwords for all your documents, applications, accounts, and websites, you will be relieved to know that there are others like you and they've created KeePass which is a free, open source password manager.

this program not only holds and sorts your usernames and passwords, it also encrypts the passwords so that an unauthorized person cannot access the data even when the password file is retrieved. SCORE!

you may be wondering how useful this app can be if it lives on your desktop or laptop. you can have multiple installations of this program and run them off of the same database file (.kdb) AND the creators and contributors of this program must be geniuses because they have a KeePass Portable for your ever so handy USB memory stick.

if you haven't been wowed yet, you should check out the plug-ins and extensions available to KeePass ( http://keepass.info/plugins.html ):

• additional encryption


• browser integration


• scripting utilities


• backup options


• reporting


• imports and conversions

this program is simple enough to run if you are already experienced enough to have a need for it. if not, there is a place where you can go for help:

moi, lazy?

nah, i'm just busy with church, friends, work, and all the other shtuff.

i don't think i'm as bad as the guy in the video. i'm mostly a retweeter. i'll tweet news stories that some of my subscribers and friends might find interesting. please don't call me a twit. ;p

i believe this video is a friendly reminder that we all should have friends outside of our virtual worlds.

how'd they do this?

i had to post this because it was just so nifty! really, how'd they impose my name everywhere?

back to digsby (w00t!)

"i'm back on digsby!" see, i even changed the widget on the right from meebo to digsby. :)

although my toastmasters experiences have taught me not to say, "that's it or that's all," i'm going to inject it anyway because it is so apropos.

this is all i had to say. i needed to share a little bit of my happyGEEK self with everyone out there. :D