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Geek Love

What You Lookin’ At?

Last week Jeff, the network guru at work, and I were looking at the results of the virus scan on my machine. I commented that I often set Outlook to just list the e-mail without the preview screen and delete all of the spam at once. I had a lot of viruses that weren’t quarantined because they weren’t activated – they were just deleted. I said that I bet it was the spam, and he agreed. Then reading something like “Is your e-mail watching you?” causes concern. Makes me want to delete every single cookie on my machine, in spite of the inconvenience it will cause me – I am tired of being watched. Aren’t you? [via Glossy Blog]

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Know the Code

ScriptyGoddess Has Arrived!

Feel the need to find lots of juicy code tidbits in one place? Well, Scriptygoddess has arrived! Jennifer and Lynda (who I always refer to as the ScriptyGoddesses) have set up a site full of links, info and just tons of good stuff! w00t! You may notice that my sidebar on the default skin is now a random list of links with a link to the pop-up window of all the links? That is just one of the many codes that you can find there! (if you are using any other skin you now have a long list of links. I’ll implement the random code later this week on the rest of the skins.) Congratulations on a great site! I know I’ll be there all the time!

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BlahBlahBabble

No Longer a Group Project…

Back at the beginning of the new year, I started The Resolution Project. Originally it was conceived as a project for me to follow the progress on my resolutions, but then I decided to open it to others. Now with the recent server move I have decided to make it an individual project again, at least for the time being. I have been bad about updating there (my last post was the beginning of March) but starting today that will change. I can’t promise anything too exciting – it will probably be a lot of to-do lists so I can keep track of things I need to do. But I learned in January what a cathartic thing it can be, and I need to do it … for me.

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Media Consumption

For the Little House Fans…

Did you watch Little House on the Prairie? I did. I wanted to be just like Mary, but when my best friend & I played “Little House” (stop laughing!) she always made me be Laura because I was younger. I didn’t think this was very fair, since I was blonde after all and so was Mary, but at least she didn’t make me play Nellie. Nellie was mean. So it’s sort of fitting that her website is named Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, don’t you think? [via My Blue House, whose 2 year blogiversary is today!]

Not only did we play “Little House on the Prairie” and have bonnets to wear when we played, I have actually been to many of the Little House on the Prairie sites. DeSmit, South Dakota (my parents bought me a cool bonnet there that converted in to an apron); the location of the sod house in Minnesota; the place where her dog was buried by the house in Minnesota; the town where they lived in Iowa (book 3?). One year on our annual vacation my Mom & Dad made it a point to hit these spots for me, and we had a great time. How is that for cool parents? Also, this past summer coming back from Winona, MN up to the twin cities I noticed that we were on the Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Highway, and we were right beside Lake Pepin – so the Little House in the Big Woods would have been right over on the other side in Wisconsin. Yes, I was a big “Little House” fan.

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BlahBlahBabble

That’s Not the Case…

Reading through links, I came across a recent post at Anil’s site. He says, “if Enron and Global Crossings and, probably, Arthur Andersen can get (effectively or even literally) shut down for violating the trust of their clients, can we just shut down the Catholic Church, too? What would we do to any other institution that was an incubator for molestors? I’d much rather have someone mismanage my accounting than rape my child.”

I have been a member of the Catholic Church for 32 years now. To say that it is an “incubator for molestors” is just … serious overkill. I’m not saying that there are no issues here, don’t get me wrong. What is happening right now in the media is proof that there are issues, I’m not denying that. But there are issues in the world in general. Corruption and problems should not lead to calling for shutting down an entire institution. I have yet to meet a priest that has molested anyone. Yes, one of the priests at my current parish had an affair with the married office secretary and she left her husband, he left the priesthood and they ran off together. But that’s the most extreme issue I think I have ever personally come across.

We have corrupt politicians. Does that make us call for an end to government? I know, let’s shut down Congress because some might be corrupt. Really, after Bill Clinton & his scandals, let’s just not have presidents any more.

There is a lot more to the Catholic Church then the priests. It is made up of many, many people. And I’m one of them. We are one body, and a living, growing one at that. There have been many changes in the Catholic Church in my lifetime. I hope that the current pressure put on the church by the media helps us to overcome this issue. But shutting it down is not the answer as such a blanket generalization implies that every priest is corrupt. That is far from the truth.

I don’t normally write about religion here. But that just couldn’t be passed up. It’s not even an issue of it being my religion – I would feel the same if it was any other group. Just because there are issues with some members doesn’t mean it’s all corrupt. Enron is a very different situation because we were lead to believe that they had tons of money that they just don’t have. That doesn’t mean every employee of Enron is evil. All of Arthur Andersen isn’t evil. The people who did the wrongdoings should not go unpunished though, and the same goes for the Catholic Church.