March 18, 2007

The Catholic Bible

rmiles7721March 18, 2007Site News

Growing up in the south as I did, most of the religion that I was exposed to was Southern Baptist. Church on Sundays with my Aunt, sometimes on Wednesday evenings with supper to follow, some youth stuff, and occasional picnics. I was just not really aware of other religions and how they operate.

I got a quick introduction in my early twenties however. My wife and her entire family are Catholic. It’s an entirely different way of life to be a Catholic. Even the catholic bible is different than the one I grew up reading. Southern Baptists spend a lit of time reading, re-reading their dog eared pages. Catholics handle their bibles extremely reverently, and except for the few priests that I used to know pretty well, treat them with much more pomp and dignity than I have seen before.

I Need to Learn How to Play…

rmiles7721March 18, 2007Site News

…golf. It isn’t really as important the last couple of years as it used to be, but all of the upper management in my company plays golf. It’s just one of those things that I never found the time for. I wouldn’t know the difference between golf clubs and cavemen clubs though. Several of the other managers I work with play and I have had the offer once or twice. If I eventually decide that I want to start working the promotion chain I may just need to learn.

Villas in Italy

rmiles7721March 18, 2007Travel

I’ve written once or twice about how I would love to go on a vacation to Italy. There are a bunch of places in Europe that I want to see while I’m still young enough to get around pretty easily and Italy is one of them. I want to travel to Rome and see the Vatican as well well as all of the earlier historical sites and monuments.

I also want to check out the countryside as well. The Villas in Italy are supposed to be among the most beautiful in the world. Check this out.

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Man, what I wouldn’t give to just hang out there for a month or so.

Google Anonymizing Server Logs

rmiles7721March 18, 2007Technology

Google announced on their blog a change they will be making soon. They will be anonymizing their server logs after 18-24 months unless ‘legally’ obligated not to.

When you search on Google, we collect information about your search, such as the query itself, IP addresses and cookie details. Previously, we kept this data for as long as it was useful. Today we’re pleased to report a change in our privacy policy: Unless we’re legally required to retain log data for longer, we will anonymize our server logs after a limited period of time. When we implement this policy change in the coming months, we will continue to keep server log data (so that we can improve Google’s services and protect them from security and other abuses)-but will make this data much more anonymous, so that it can no longer be identified with individual users, after 18-24 months

More information can be found over at the Google Blog.

Free Dating Site

rmiles7721March 18, 2007Entertainment, Technology

I see dating site ads all over the internet. Most of them are at least initially disguised as being ‘free’ until you get to the part where you have to enter your credit card information. All I can say is that I am glad I don’t have to worry about that stuff anymore. I suppose that online dating is easier than the bar scene though. At least you have the opportunity to screen out potential creeps and stalkers and get to know someone a tiny bit before meeting them. Obviously everything that they say could be a lie, but generally you do get a sense of the person’s personality.

JustSayHi.com is a truly free site for Online Dating. They offer the same features as all of the pay sites and is just as good. The sign up process is pretty easy and simple. A couple of quick pages about who you are and describing yourself. In order to keep the service free, they do require that you look at several pages of ads before you get into the service itself. I had to look at three pages of ads to get in.

It seems to be a pretty good site if you are looking for a date. There are plenty of listings as well. One thing that pleased me was that when I went to delete my account, it was right there in the settings tab, it asked me why and deleted it. Overall I was very pleased.

Adrenaline by PixelPirate

rmiles7721March 18, 2007Technology

This isn’t my skin, but I just downloaded it and am using it now. Adrenaline is a pretty sweet Windowblinds skin that PixelPirate released on March 12th. Click the link to go download it. Very cool.

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*Crossposted to theapp.net

Missing Boy Scout

rmiles7721March 18, 2007Site News

I had not heard about this story until I ran across it over at CNN. Apparently a Boy Scout has been missing from his campsite near the Blue Ridge Parkway since yesterday. It has been pretty darn cold the last couple of nights, so I hope he is OK and found soon. Searchers found his mess kit about a half mile from camp, and they have also found footprints that match his shoes.