GTalk and International Chatting

Well I just have to give a quick shout out to Google’s GTalk. First I must say this, I have a gtalk account a yahoomessenger account and even an AIM account. By far I’m enjoying gtalk over all of them. My brothers are not the most up2date with the technical protocols of the internet, so they don’t necessarily understand the greatness that Gtalk is using Jabber. anyways….. to make a long story short… Gtalk = Jabber = excellent group chat even across the pond. Both my older brother and I are still in Miami, and our younger brother is sitting in Wales at UWC’s Atlantic College. We’ve had many an international group chats via the various jabber sites mostly conference.ursine.ca since it is the default via Meebo an excellent online based multi-client chat package. It made my life tremendously easier when setting up group chat via jabber for my brothers. Back to the international element… via gtalk, I keep in touch with my brother in Wales and my friend in Jordan… my brother in Wales uses it to talk to people all over the world at other UWCs and all his friends still in Miami. I tried using Yahoo to talk over the pond…. never been very good (for me at least), I know alot of user use MSN to talk over sees, but lets see MS or Google which one would you use? I’ll stick with Google, I’m a Mac/Linux user, no MS on my platform.

How Many of Me

A few weeks ago my brothers and I were having an international chat session (quick cheer for gtalk and the jabber protocol, more about this in a minute) and my older brother passes this link along. It will tell you how original or not your name is as compared to the last census. There are 7 “Ben Carrasco” and 18 “Philip Carrasco”, but I lost out with 25 “Nicholas Carrasco”. There are supposedly 17,998 Carrasco’s in the world. Anyways… check it out and see how creative your parents were.

Link: How Many of Me

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 25 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

IT Nightmares

I just ran across this at Lifehacker.
Top 10 Most Common Passwords

Me working as an IT person with in the government, it is kind of scary that passwords I ruled out back in high school (before IT security was remotely an issue) would still be the most popular ones. No wonder nothing is secure anymore. Does anyone think that Pres. G.W. Bush uses number 5 as his password, it wouldn’t surprise me, I put him in the intelligence bracket of President Skroob of Planet Spaceballs.

Last Nights Halloween Adventures

Well, last night Lauren and I headed out to Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. All I can say is this:

The only significant difference, not all the “sluts” were women.