Jeff's Lunchbreak

I'm not trying to turn this into a quarterly feature, but it seems like I keep forgetting to run one of these top 10 lists at the end of the month and only remember every 3 months or so. Well, it happened again, but I still went through the server logs for the past 3 months to see what pages on this site were the most popular.

Most of the pages that made the list had made it before. However, there were two newcomers. First was Tank Game - QBasic Source Code. I'm happy to see it make the list, but a little surprised. It's a very simple QBasic program I wrote back in high school. I was proud of it when I did it - an attempt at an 'action' game with both people using the same keyboard. But it's not a particularly good program, particularly for people to use as an example. I wrote it before I learned good programming practices, and there are way too many labels and GOTO statements (even 1 GOTO statement is 1 too many). The other newcomer is Birds Are Dinosaurs. It's a few years old, so I'm surprised to see it gain popularity now, but happy to see it doing so.

I have been doing pretty good at my renewed efforts of maintaining my post per week goal. I haven't quite kept up with my goal of updating the Friday Bible Blogging series every week again, but I have been trying. I've made one new post in the series, and I've ready the next 10 chapters of Isaiah. The problem, as I've said several times now, is that I also try to read the footnotes in the New Oxford Annotated Bible before writing the entries, and I usually devote weekend mornings to doing that reading, but I've been busy with projects, trips, and get togethers the past several weeks (including replacing a hot water heater). But I will sincerely try to start updating that series on a weekly basis, again.

Overall traffic was fairly consistent for those three months, reversing a trend I noted several months ago of declining traffic. I read an entry on Daylight Atheism a little while ago that several sites have been seeing decreased traffic due to changes in Facebook's algorithms regarding external links. So, maybe that was part of the problem in addition to me not generating as much new content. Hopefully, traffic will at least hold or even grow now that I'm back to writing regularly again.

Anyway, here're the lists for the past three months.

Top 10 for September 2016

1. Response to Rabbi Steven Pruzansky - Why Romney Didn't Get Enough Votes to Win
2. Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
3. Response to an Editorial by Ken Huber
4. A Skeptical Look at MBT Shoes
5. Autogyro History & Theory
6. Running AutoCAD R14 in XP Pro 64
7. Response to E-mail - 1400 years of In-breeding
8. Tank Game - QBasic Source Code
9. Blog - VW XL1 + E-mail Debunking - China's New "Little Car"
10. Response to Global Warming Denialist E-mail - Volcanoes and Global Cooling

Top 10 for October 2016

1. Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
2. Response to an Editorial by Ken Huber
3. A Skeptical Look at MBT Shoes
4. Autogyro History & Theory
5. Response to Global Warming Denialist E-mail - Volcanoes and Global Cooling
6. Response to E-mail - 1400 years of In-breeding
7. Retroactive Soapbox Entry- Fed Up with U.S. Public, Part II
8. Tank Game - QBasic Source Code
9. A Skeptical Look at Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy
10. Review of Ray Comfort's New Movie - Evolution vs. God, Part I

Top 10 for November 2016

1. Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
2. A Skeptical Look at MBT Shoes
3. Response to Global Warming Denialist E-mail - Volcanoes and Global Cooling
4. Autogyro History & Theory
5. Tank Game - QBasic Source Code
6. Retroactive Soapbox Entry- Fed Up with U.S. Public, Part II
7. Response to E-mail - 1400 years of In-breeding
8. A Skeptical Look at Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy
9. Response to E-mail - Are America's Hunters the World's Largest Army?
10. Birds Are Dinosaurs