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A brief note on older posts with scriptural references

bfwebster — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:36:32 +0000

Many of my posts here have links to the online LDS scriptures made available by the LDS Church itself. However, I discovered a day or two ago that the Church has changed the location and layout of those scriptures, which means that some of those links (particularly those incorporating a search) won’t work. I will change them as I run across them, or you can drop me an e-mail if you find them yourselves. Thanks! ..bruce..

I’m back

bfwebster — Thu, 27 May 2010 02:26:14 +0000

Sorry for the long hiatus; work has had me swamped for a while. I recently committed to posting weekly over at Mormon Mentality, so I figure that I should be able to do as well here. Stay tuned. ..bruce..

Oops…been a while

bfwebster — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:20:02 +0000

Can’t believe it’s been over two months since I posted here. Of course, I’ve been neglecting all my blogs, but this one has been particularly neglected. I’ll do better. Honest.

No, not dead, not gone, just busy

bfwebster — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:39:13 +0000

I’ve got a work project that’s kept me in California for most of the past 6 weeks and is taking me back tomorrow night. It’s been intense enough, the hours long enough, that I’ve had little energy left to post here or on my other blogs. But I’ve got some things to post about, and I’ll try to do at least one each week.

In the meantime, here’s my first honest-to-goodness struggle with COVETING in some time. Fear not; the fever dream has faded; if we get a second car, it will likely be one of the aging $2000 pickup trucks parked by roadsides in our neck of the woods. But it was a nice few weeks. ..bruce..

Back in Google’s good graces

bfwebster — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:33:39 +0000

Aha! I appear to have Google’s blessing again. This whole process was much quicker than my prior Google-banning experience with another of my blogs. ..bruce..

You’ll need to register again

bfwebster — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:46:56 +0000

The delete-and-restore process deleted all user IDs, so you’ll need to register again to leave comments. Sorry! ..bruce..

Back up and running

bfwebster — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:29:02 +0000

This site appears to have been hacked with a bunch of link redirections inserted in the front page, which is why Google purged me from their indices. I did an XML backup of the site’s contents, wiped out my entire public_html directory, reinstalled the latest version of WordPress, and then restored the contents. If you run into flakiness, that’s why. ..bruce..

Google weirdness — this site purged from Google

bfwebster — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:41:30 +0000

It appears that this site was purged completely from Google sometime on the evening of December 6th. I have no idea why. This means, of course, that not only are no Google searches coming to this site, but that the site has likely lost whatever ‘authority’ it had in the Google search algorithm.

Anyone with suggestions as to why this may have happened? ..bruce..

‘Net searches that end up at this blog

bfwebster — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:54:11 +0000

One of my favorite features of the Sitemeter monitoring service that I subscribe to is that I can see the actual search strings that people typed into Google or other search engines that led them to this blog. The single most common set of search strings combine “Mormon” or “LDS” with “Obama”. A fair number of people do searches on “adventures in mormonism”, for reasons that entirely escape me (I chose the name based on a lingering fondness for the late 80s movie, “Adventures in Babysitting”). But what I find most fascinating are the one-off searches that somehow lead here. Here are a few recent example; quotes are from the search strings themselves; all typos and grammatical errors are preserved:

“was actually” logic
repo book
texas supreme court order mail or person
stone to leave for family when rapture occurs
latter day saint church how many private jets
thomas s monson – the antichrist
recorded aether hyperspace
victorian old man clip art
lds, mormon, eye color
pbs conspiracy mormon jehovah
which temple does mitt romney attend
“one last stolen look”
grandpa mormon beliefs
rights of senior missionary companions
does the lds loves obama
is the mormon church ran by aliens
mormon sounds
exobiology characteristics
sword turns into milk
the brothers karamazov edmund fuller less pages
is it ok for mormon kids to hug
mormon church mt. shasta
mormon sheep
mormons have no personal debt
michelle obama is mormon?
lds mission presidents excommunicated
dave berry mormon
bipolar mormon
mormon caverns salt lake city
is there a jared in lehi whose last name starts with an f,
mormon clue board game
mormon clothing and men
“they might be giants” mormon
b.y.u. theme song 1945

Those are all hits within the last 3 weeks (and taken from the most recent 2000 hits on this blog). ..bruce..

OK, here’s my rating

bfwebster — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:57:53 +0000

This website purports to rate the reading level of a given blog. Here’s its rating for this blog:

I’d like to think it’s because of the thoughtful and intellectual nature of the posts here. But it probably just shows that I’m pedantic. (If you think that’s bad, check out my business website.) ..bruce..