This is the first Holiday Season in a few years that I haven’t had girlfriend to spend it with and it was pretty weird.  Many nights I fell asleep thinking of old girlfriends and weird things like that.  So today I was fairly happy to go back to work and move on with the new year.  But I thought I had better take a look back on the Christmas Holiday anyways.

I was off work since the 22nd.  Most of the time was spend just sitting around the house being lazy.  Although I did get a few things done as well a a few presents.

• Made the first version of JimBot, and IRC bot.
• Put all my DVD’s in a spread sheet, with IMDB links.
• Got new tires on my car
• Figured out how to share my Airport card with my XBox.
•  Got a few shirts for Christmas
• Also got money, which will be used for school.
• Played with Wiimote White Board and head tracking.
• Started using KeePass for storing all my passwords.  Its cross platform.

Mostly I just spend the time off being lazy.  It was great, but I am happy to be back to normal life.

    Pretty cool.  Some Russian hacker outfit has created a program to crack passwords using your GPU.  Thus cracking NTLM-hashed Microsoft Vista passwords in 3-5 days with an simple and cheap $150 graphics card.

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I have been toying with the idea of an internet based password manager.  I started by making a C program but I never really finished it.  Then I thought php would be the way to go, and never started it.  So today I ran across passlet.com.  It is a online password manager, that stores everything encrypted.  The nice thing about this is that the browser actually does the encryption and then that data is sent over ssl to be stored in the server.   This way everything is stored encrypted.

One thing I like about passlet over other systems is how simple it it.  There is no crazy css going on, just simple ajax encryption and decryption.  Also passlet isn’t afraid to show the queries between me and the server.  I can see everything going on.  I did some research on the site and it seems like it has been around for a year or so.  I would feel more comfortable if I controlled the server and database but really its probably more safe than some e-commerce sites out there.  I will be giving passlet a shot and will let you know how I feel.