Somebody mod this up, please! Google Hangouts has been so very much more stable than Skype ever was when video chatting with our son off at college. Skype would die 2-3 times during a normal conversation, and we'd have to reconnect. Google Hangouts is rock solid so far, and leverages account credentials we already use heavily. No need to maintain a second username and password for the Skype ecosystem.

Well stated. To use an analogy, the relationship between Facebook and it's users is similar to that of a farmer and his milking cows. Yes, he gives the cows the cool field to run around and play in, but he's really only interested in the milk they provide. While effort spent to make the process of milking more efficient will likely be pursued, beautification of the barn and comfort for the cows is not a primary concern for the farmer. Sorry, I couldn't think of a good car analogy, as I know how popular those are here.

I guess I agree with the mid 30's, and slightly overweight analysis of my life, but no signs of depression....... yet......

gives me something to shoot for...

Further links:

The actual study is online as a PDF here.

MSNBC coverage is here.

Wow, that such a disturbing mental image, my mind's eye just went blind. Please no goatse links...

Linux cannot answer it all for me. My one user has AOL dial-up (for some reason i can't figure out). However, they are many AOL dial-up users out in the world stil. The problem is that none of the current distros I have found can handle any interaction with AOL dial-up. Peng (Penggy/PenAOL) was the most promising program for this, but they seem to have abandoned the software, and it seems to have been dropped from most repositories. I can't even get the source I can find to compile correctly on Ubuntu, Fedora, or Suse. As much as AOL is crap to me, it is somehow easier for older folks to understand (until they get their first HTML-formatted email in the crappy plain text interface). I think that these folks are still very much in AOL's prime target audience. Until I can set up a linux box again, with dial-up to AOL, and pulling email into Evolution (which is easy as cake), I have to support this box on a windows environment.

The debate about the age of the earth is ultimately a question of whose word we are going to trust: the all-knowing truthful Creator who has given us His inerrant book (the Bible) or finite, sinful creatures who give us their books that contain errors and therefore are frequently revised. If you firmly trust and carefully read the Bible and become informed on creationist interpretations of the geological record, you can easily see how the rocks of the earth powerfully confirm the Bible's teaching, both about Noah's Flood and a young earth.

-- Taken from the text of "The Key to the Age of the Earth", found at Answers In Genesis.

Dr. Terry Mortenson is a well-known speaker, researcher, and writer. He earned his doctorate in history of geology from Englandâ(TM)s University of Coventry and his M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.

I would challenge most scholars to review the other material at Answers In Genesis to get a true understanding of Biblical Geology before further discussion on the matter.