I had a great time at the Office Space Coworking event yesterday and I may have learned more than those in the audience! Some key points:

• Carbonite rocks. I've only ever used JungleDisk for remote backups, but I got to see Carbonite for the first time yesterday. It looks like a wonderfully easy to use system and is only $50 a year. I think this is probably the way to go for any Windows users that don't want to mess with complicated software set up. I'll post a review soon.
• I can be a little too high level sometimes. It's hard for me to see this sometimes, but doing these kinds of presentations really helps me stay grounded.
• People still have problems with passwords. Considering the vast number of web sites and applications we use, most people probably have upwards of 50 to 200 passwords to remember. The easiest way to get around that is just to use the same password, which is very bad! I think password hashing could help out a lot of people, but it's not that easy to use yet. www.pwdhash.com is probably the easiest to use implementation of password hashing so far.
• I've already been invited back to give this talk again and one on data security. It was also suggested that I give a talk on Computers 101 that covers the basic basics on how computers and operating systems work. I think that's a great idea and it will really force me to understand how to explain this stuff to someone without a computer science degree.
• Backing up applications is a complicated topic. I think I need to put more thought into this and figure out what the best way is to backup applications. I don't think there will be one answer that fits everyone, but there could be some clarification around the issue of what and how to backup.

I want to thank everyone that came out and thanks to Kelly Brown for letting me do this. The roads were bad and it's nice to know that people will risk their lives to see your presentation. I hope it was worth it!