I finally got the pictures posted on Flickr, so without further ado: here is the slideshow!
Thank you survey friends!
I just wanted to thank all of you friends that took the time to fill out my Sociology Survey I posted last week. The time you took for the survey made it really easy to compile the results. I volunteered to compile the class results, and have them on an Excel Spreadsheet, for those who are interested in checking it out. This survey is not scientific by any means, but the results are a bit interesting.
Hopefully this will be the last survey I’ll need to give for this class, but thank you all again!
Southern Greetings: Hilton Head, SC
Greetings from the South! On Friday Bethany and I boarded a plane to Atlanta and eventually wound up in Savannah to join her family for a southern trip. This is the first time that I’ve vacationed in the south (aside from Florida, which I consider a different experience). We spent the day in Savannah, Georgia before making our way up to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Savannah definitely wasn’t what I was expecting. I was expecting a small little southern town, but Savannah was definitely bigger and more touristy that I originally thought. I also didn’t have an appreciation for just how much American History is present in that small southern town. Going around the Old Town area, it was amazing just how many old buildings have been restored, as well as the history associated with each building. We took a trolley-bus tour around the downtown area, which turned out to be a very educational and interesting experience.
I Twittered it earlier, but I didn’t realize that for a period of time that Catholicism was prohibited in the Georgia colony. I guess fears of being extremely close to the Spaniard Colonies prompted fear that Catholics in Georgia would have a disposition towards Spain – thus prohibiting Catholicism would eliminate such concern.
After our Savannah tour we made our way to Hilton Head, South Carolina where we will be until we head home. The resort we’re staying in is very beautiful! After skipping lunch, we had an early dinner in Charley’s Crab Restaurant. I can’t appreciate the experience of eating seafood while watching the sun set over the water.
Tomorrow we’ll make our way to the beach and do some bike-riding around the area, so I’ll hope to take more pictures and share them.
Speaking of pictures, I’m having trouble uploading them to Flickr this evening. I’m sending them to my home computer now and will try uploading them there. Watch for a follow-up post with pictures!
Did Digg change their RSS feeds?
This is a random technology gripe, but I wanted to throw it out there in case anyone else was experiencing this.
Did Digg change the way they’re presenting their RSS feeds? I subscribe to all of the RSS feeds and keep up to date through FeedDemon (an awesome desktop RSS reader by the way). All of the sudden on Thursday the feeds changed names (in a minor way) to “Digg Stories / / ..” and now are including associated images, which FeedDemon is displaying as thumbnails.
Personally I can’t stand the thumbnails view, and with a user-generated site like Digg there’s no telling what thumbnails will come up – especially if I’m viewing this in a public place. Is there any way to turn the thumbnails off all-together, or subscribe to a Digg feed that doesn’t include these? I looked on Digg and couldn’t find such a thing, so I’m wondering if there’s a setting in FeedDemon. Browsing through the options I couldn’t find anything obvious, but maybe I’m missing something.
Did anyone else notice this?
Update: I meant to post a screen shot of what I was talking about: 
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Friends and dear readers,
Could you please do me the kindness of filling out this survey. I hate surveys as much as the next guy, but apparently we’re required to conduct surveys for my Social Problems class at school. By taking a few minutes of your time to fill out the survey, I would appreciate you beyond belief.
Thank you so much!