Category: Websites

Yesterday I went to my main ministry website and was going to document the steps on how to sign up for my RSS feed. I was disappointed to find that I had an error in one of my scripts and my RSS feed was not working. I am subscribed to the feed, but had not really paid attention to when the last time I had received a notice was. Apparently it has been a while.

In my search to figure out the problem I had determined that it was a corrupt file. The easiest way to remedy that was to google the file name and see if I could download it from somewhere else. It was a script I had pulled off the web, so I knew others were probably using it too.

When I put in the file name at Google, I was horrified to see that my site came up as the 3rd hit on the list! This is one time that you don’t want to show up in the top 10 at Google.

I just learned about a new blogging thingy that should increase the number of visitors to the blog. While this may not mean much to the readers, it means a lot to me. I write because I want people to read what I am writing. Even if it is not too focused.

The widget in the left sidebar is from Blog Rush. It is a service that shares interesting blog links that should be relevant to the things I write. If you are a blogger, you can get this widget for your blog too.

Here is how it works and should help traffic. You come to my blog and see the other blogs in my genre (personal ramblings, or something like that) and they, in turn are showing my blog postings on their site. This is based on “credits.” Each time my blog loads in someone’s browser I get a credit and earn the right to display a link on Blog Rush.

You decide you want this for your site. You click the link at the bottom of the widget to sign up at Blog Rush. When you install it on your site and start using it, you get credit, AND I get credit. This goes down 10 levels. The more referrals I get, the more potential traffic I will have.

There is no money involved, so it is not going to make me any more moola. What it will do though is potentially drive more readers to the site. That is always a good thing.

Check out Blog Rush and see if it might work for you. If it does, sign up and get started. Make sure you view the video at the site. It makes it pretty clear how it all works.

If I am going to make someone famous, I must include myself.

My wife and I are writing the Discover Spanish With Us blog. We are taking a Spanish word (or two) a day and explaining its meaning. Not only are we giving a dictionary definition, but we are also attempting show a particular usage of the word.

The first word that I uncovered was the word Descubrir. That is the English word discover. But, in Spanish it carries with it the idea of investigating or pulling apart—to dis-cover. It also means to find out just like we understand it in English.

Recently my wife posted a story of our son tacking the letter “o” to the end of the word popcorn to try and buy a bag of the fluffy goodness from a street vendor. He learned that day that the word for popcorn is palomitas. Since he was only 5 years old at the time, it was quite interesting to see that he understood there were a good number of English words that become Spanish ones when you add an “o” or an “a” to them. At 9 years old, he does speak Spanish much better.

Check out Discover Spanish With Us and leave a comment if you have a question or insight on one of the words we “dis-cover.”

Beekeepers Friend is my dad’s blog. He is using it to tell about his personal beekeeping antics as well as sharing his knowledge of the trade.

There has been a lot of talk about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in the beekeeping business over the last year or so. Yesterday he summarized an article on what may be the cause of the disorder. It is still somewhat mysterious.

As he shares more about how he works his own bees, the reader will gain knowledge of what, and sometimes what not, to do with their bees. Dad is not a large commercial beekeeper, but he has had enough years of experience as a hobbyist to be able to help others along.