It seems that the next frontier for many technology and web companies is to launch a service that lets individuals track their health stats and associated information on the web. We all have our lives on the web anyway these days, right?

Microsoft has joined Google as a company that wants to help you manage your own medical and health information with the launch of a service last week to do just that. The problem is that the confidentiality of that kind of sensitive information becomes suspect when a technology provider starts handling it instead of a medical practitioner. Well, maybe.

Do you need your own medical information stored on a website (albeit, a secure one), or would you prefer that information stay as is in the venue of your doctor's office? How could an offering like this help you as a patient?

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OK now.... I just saw an advertisement for a dating site that said "Boy friend season is coming up." Really? Are there really seasons for boyfriends and girlfriends now? Am I to think that mating seasons for humans have kicked in just like mating seasons for deer, geese, dogs in heat, and more wildlife. When exactly is that season because I feel left out of the loop?

Cyber dating and dating service memberships have hit in blossoming numbers. What can you really find out about someone through a computer? I mean really...how many lies are being told and how much of what is being typed in is really fact? It seems to me that it would be REALLY easy for untruths to be told when not sitting face to face with someone. When did we stop looking for actual places to meet people face to face like coffee shops, churches, acoustic music shows, the gym, etc. I feel like if I am going to be interested in dating someone that I will look for someone where I hang out or go to like places that are fun to me. Acoustic music venues, coffee shops, browsing downtown shopping stores, golf courses, the beach, church functions, and community social gatherings. More than likely that will be fun places for them too and that will be a common ground of interest for us to get to know each other better. To me there seems to be a lot of safety issues and privacy issues with trying to meet and date someone online and I have heard people talking about this in circles and these relationships never seem to last. I have even heard of people making plans to move in with each other or even getting married without ever meeting face to face. Maybe I am an old fashioned gal but I am still a believer in meeting and getting to know someone slowly. The time I did result in talking a lot to someone on the computer that I met in person once, only brought me heartache and pain. So I guess this old gal has learned from some good old fashioned experience. Love is not a quick find and found through a cold, non pulsing, blood carrying machine hooked up to cyber space. You can fall in love with the idea of that person but you will only know if that idea is a reality in person over time.