... that as of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates?  (I suddenly don't feel so alone!)

Oh ... one more thing I wanted to mention last week but never got around to getting it "logged" here:

I FINALLY (with almost 1 year delay!) got to watch the DaVinci Code movie with Tom Hanks.  I was a bit disappointed that it didn't turn out to be much of a thriller (at least I didn't feel much suspense as the story line moved rather slowly and was somewhat predictable) but it was still  intriguing to watch in terms of the questions raised such as:  what would actually change (even from a mere theoretical standpoint) if Jesus had been married and had a child?  Would it make him any less divine?  I also appreciated the fact that the historical reconstruction of the events at the time of the Roman emperor Constantine by Ian McKellen's character wasn't left unchallenged.  The biggest error in the book and in the movie is of course the whole idea of the church suppressing important evidence right from the time of the apostles.  Since there was no established church hierarchy or power structure per se that could have had the kind of influence to leave such distortions and omissions unchecked, it is not so much bad theology from Dan Brown - it's just bad historical research and a rather wild imagination without much logic attached to it.  It also makes no sense (psychologically or otherwise) from the perspective of a tiny Christian minority under great pressure to hang on to something that they personally knew very well to be a lie.  Anyway, that's my 5 cents on this book / movie.