Not many entries lately. Still busy with work, the holidays and, darn it, just playing and napping with my son.

I'm in the process of consolidating the registration of the four domain names that I own to just one registrar. They were with catalog.com, domainpeople.com, netidentity.com and register.com. I'm moving them all to godaddy.com.

Each registrar had different login requirements/constraints resulting in four sets of usernames and passwords which took a little work to recall. I have a "system" for remembering such things and it was really put to the test during this process. I've really pushed the limits in maximizing security at the risk of securing myself out. I (and everyone should) have different passwords for different things. This way when I sign up for something requiring a password, I haven't just giving that company, group or person, my one and only password to everything. The downside is that one good blow to my head and I'm locked out of the online/electronic world.

Actually, I've started to keep track of such personal information as usernames/passwords, account numbers, etc. with a secure personal information manager, SplashID, which works on my PC and PalmPilot (Tungsten T). It uses 256-bit Blowfish encryption, which in layman's terms means, if I lose my PalmPilot, no one will be able to extract my information. Given the explosive grown of digital identifiers, the usefulness of such a program cannot be overstated.