Have a nice conferencevacation here ;).

Look it up. If you currently have an iPhone you are good to go.
http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/specials/iphone-info.jsp

“In my mind, blind obedience usually leads to mayhem and oppression.” I couldn’t agree with you more, but why the assumption that Catholics, or members of any other religion, blindly follow their religion? If they did, there would be no such thing as apologetics, and the likes of Thomas Aquinas would have either not existed or must have been sufficiently ignored or suppressed in the past few decades (I might grant the latter…).

“By disallowing women from entering the priesthood, the church is sending a message that women are inferior in some way. They are not.”

While I couldn’t agree with you more that women are not inferior to men, I couldn’t disagree more that such a belief is the impetus for the exclusion of women from the priesthood. Rather, it is the belief that women are DIFFERENT from men. If you deny such a principle then not only am I barking up the wrong tree, but you you should go have a talk with some of your friends in the biology faculty (I hope that you have some! good people, them).

The duty of a Priest is not foremost to preach, or to minister to the flock, or to administer a church. Women can do all of these things just as well as men. But a priest’s first duty is to be another Christ, and to offer that selfsame sacrifice of Calvary again on the altar, by turning bread and wine into flesh and blood (believe what you may about it). It has nothing whatsoever to do with a man’s (or woman’s) ability to DO something. It is much like childbirth. A woman didn’t develop the ability to give birth through hard work and climbing to the top. It is in her nature. It is the same, in Catholic belief, with the ability to offer this sacrifice, to forgive sin, and to bless people, places and things. So when you argue this from the perspective of “equality,” in Catholic ears you might as well be arguing that it is an outrage that men can’t give birth.

Whether it be true or not, this is the tune you are whistling as far as any Catholic is concerned.

Perhaps some of the time people spend being incensed could be better spent understanding the things they are shaking their fists at. This way, even if they might be right, they won’t be barking up the wrong tree.

Blind as the day I was born,

Jason

You could try letting them only do a virus scan and seeing if that solves the problem, but I wouldn’t get your hopes up. However: if they also backup your entire ‘Documents and Settings’ or ‘Users’ directory, you might retain most of your settings.

- Jeroen

I look at it this way…

My paper boy delivers my newspaper every day. If I go away for a week, I might read the latest one upon return. But I don’t feel compelled to go through them all and read every article. Old news is not news I want.

So if you use the newsreader to read ‘news’ I’d apply the same principle and use option (c).

However, if you use RSS as notifications of things you don’t want to miss, then I’d use option (a).

Best strategy I think is to separate ‘news’ feeds from ‘notification’ feeds. Use separate folders in google reader for each type, and assign the feeds to the folders accordingly. Then it’s easy to look at all your notifications and just scan the news if you are so inclined.

Sounds like the high volume feeds like Digg, Engadget, and Gizmodo should be in the news folder and you low volume blogs should be in notifications folder.

To put it another way, RSS is not email.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,
Tim

To get a nice sense of progress, I usually start with the feed that has the most unread items and go from there. Really makes your unread count go down very quickly.

Good luck, in any case!