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so I just decided to sign up for lifelock and looked on their site and honestly couldn’t really tell what they did. I knew I needed some kind of ID fraud help, cause as a youth my elementary school got broken into several times and the sad thing about having a name that puts you at the front of the alphabet, that’s what the robbers get you know? :)

So I sign up anyway with a deal that gets me a year at 99 bones and I decide to try it out and see what it does. Well first they register fraud alerts on the CR’s, then they have CR’s sent to me. Cool I think, this is easy. Then my CR gets here and I look at it, and I am getting taken to town. There are tickets that have gone to collections, cars that have been purchased, and jewelry that is outstanding (the payments, not the jewels). I’m thinking ahhhh freak. So I drop lifelock an email and this dude calls and says hey, we can’t sick the dogs on em because this stuff happened before you got with us, but I’ll jump on the phone with you and we can knock all these out together to get you where you need to be. So there’s this pro chasing down these creditors that aren’t using any fraud detection stuff, and in one night, we get paperwork done on all of them. So I guess for 10 bones a month, not too shabby. The trick will be if it actually gets it off my record and clears my name eh’? I’ll keep you posted.

In the meantime, take a look at your own reports and make sure you’re all up to par. And thus, the moral.

So I just found this pirated trailer of tron2 or tr2n, and let me just say “YA DANG RIGHT BAYBEE!” I am stoked, it looks so good, and the buzz around it is fantastic. If you’ve never seen the original, shame on you. Playing this game as a kid was a huge part of my appreciation for all things geek, which eventually chose my school and career, so pretty much, I owe my life to tron :) But seriously, I loved this as a kid, and am so stoked to see it getting some attention now. It’s very geeky though, and makes me happy. so…..
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So…. as geeky as I am, there are still geeky things that I just have never really got into, one such thing has been podcasts. Not necessarily geeky I guess, but it’s the nerd equivalent to traditional radio, so I see it as the tech way to listen to yer favorite shows. So anyway, I’ve never really got into them until I got hooked up with a little 8g Zune for a graduation present, which was arguably the coolest gift I have gotten all year. Well I have much more music than an 8g anything could handle, and I already was toting an iPhone around with me, so I figured I’d use it for jogging or working out cause the form factor was great. Well since I’ve taken my job now, I have a few 1 hour drives a week and then several 15-20 minutes jaunts to a store or friends house. So somewhere along the way I realized I could be using the time for something a bit better than …. well doing nothing with it, and since I’m a big fan of talk radio anyway, I went searching for good podcasts to fill my time on and have since converted the Zune into my 8g’s of podcast loving updated nightly. And since I’ve been through quite a few, I thought I’d share with you what I got and why, so if you decided you wanted to hit it up, you could have a place to start. :) (continue reading…)