Friday Frivolity: The Good News about Creative Cloud
Tag: Google
Bishop Barron @ Google
So recently Bishop Barron visited Google to speak on “Religion and the Opening Up of the Mind”…
Popularize a pilgrim!
I can always tell when someone has shared one of my articles on social media as I see a sudden spike in the server activity as one of my posts reaches a new audience.
With that in mind, I have a request. I’d really like to expand the reach of this blog and you can help make this a reality. Could you share one of my posts with your friends today? Whether you use Facebook, Google+, Twitter, or whatever kids use these days, could you post a link to just one of my articles?
Ugliness finally has a face!
A while ago my friend Ricardo pointed out to me that I am, in fact, a canonized Saint. Even with my profound sanctity, not to mention my superlative humility, I was a little surprised when he said this. When I asked him about it, he told me that Google now shows a picture of me when you search for “St. Drogo”:
St Drogo was a Saint who lived in the 12th Century and has the dubious honour of being the patron Saint of ugly people! Over a year ago I wrote an article about him, declaring him to be the Patron Saint of this blog.
Well, it turns out that Google went looking for picture of St. Drogo, found my article and falsely concluded that my portrait was, in fact, a picture of this French Saint!
So, on the plus side, I’m now a canonized Saint! Unfortunately, it means I also died in 1185… :-/
Bigger than Bob
I recently started to take a little bit more interest in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This concerns itself with ensuring that when someone uses a search engine to look for something, if your site is at all relevant to the search, it will appear as close to the top of the search results as possible.
It was only after I decided to call my blog “Restless Pilgrim” that I found out that it’s also the name of a Bob Dylan biography. Well, today I’m pleased to announce that I’m bigger than Bob Dylan!
Okay, now to get that #1 spot…
The Dead Sea Scans
Once I had accepted employment at Cynergy Systems in the US, I visited San Diego for a week to try and get a sense of what it would be like to live in America. While I was there I found out that the Dead Sea Scrolls, those ancient Jewish manuscripts found in the caves at Qumran, were currently on display in the Natural History Museum. It was quite a special moment to be standing in front of the oldest manuscript of the Prophet Isaiah and this encounter began to foster within me a desire to learn the original languages of the Scriptures.
Last month I read that, thanks to Google, there are now available five high-resolution scans of the scrolls:
If you would like to know more about the Dead Sea Scrolls and their contribution to our understanding of the Bible, I would encourage you to listen to the talk on this subject given by Sebastian Carnazzo at the Institute of Catholic Culture.