It’s a brand new year, 2009 is done and over; I can’t actually believe the year is done already, it feels like it just started. But anyway, this isn’t my year in review post; that will be later.

This is a more important message: don’t forget to update all of your passwords! Most people recommend updating passwords on a 6 month basis, so why not get started now? Update at the start of the year, and at the middle of the year. So, what’s the best way to come up with a password? I strongly recommend using this random password generator website. Take a part of the third random password that’s generated, and replace some of the characters with special characters, and you’ve got a perfect password then. I know I’m going through all of my accounts and making sure everything is newly locked down and updated.

Sweet… Just found and installed the iPhone app for wordpress. Now I can write a blog post directly from my iPhone when I’m not at my computer.

And even better, saw a brand new trailer for Caprica. I’m hoping it’s going to be a good show. At least the music will live up to the standards of BSG becaue the same musical director, Bear McCreary, is in charge of the soundtrack. He also did the music for the new Terminator tv show.

I thought I would update this once again after more than a month of not doing so… I know I’m terrible with keeping up with this, and every time I post I say I’ll get better and I don’t. This time, I’m not going to say I’ll post more, and maybe I’ll end up posting more…

But, what’s been happening over the last 1.5 months? Well, as some of you might know, I was on vacation for two weeks. I needed a break from work, and wanted to go far away. There are plenty of pictures online, Facebook and my photo site. I had an amazing time. But unfortunately, while I was gone, the Giants decided to start losing games… The two weeks I didn’t watch, they lost; then I come back, and the lose again! They really need to get their act together again and start playing well.

Other than that, I’m moving my Roth IRA account from Scottrade to Wells Fargo because Wells Fargo is giving me more free trades, and is waiving all the fees for me. When I put in the paperwork to move the account, the folks at Scottrade gave me a call trying to convince me to stay with them, selling the fact that they have lower fees, lower commissions and streaming quotes. The dude was really insistent that I stay with them, he was definitely pushing his sell too hard and I didn’t like that. But hopefully, my account should get moved over soon enough.

Beyond these things, I can’t believe this year is almost over. This year has flown by, and it’s been a crazy year. I’ll do my usual annual wrap up in January, but I can’t believe how fast this year has gone by.