Website Update Archive

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Website Update - Top 10 Page List for February, March, and April 2016

Top 10 ListIt's been a while since I've done one of these posts - over three months. So, I figure it's about time to catch up a bit.

There were several newcomers to the list this time around, all on fairly disparate themes - Richard Dawkins' Litmus Test, Book Review - God- or Gorilla?, Chapter 23, Happy Exploration Day 2013, and Are the Beatles Overrated?. Given that they're all a few years old, I don't know why they would have surged in popularity now, but they have. Other than the Dawkins one, I'm pretty happy with all of them (and it's not like I'm unhappy with the Dawkins' one - it just that it was only a few excerpts from an article he'd written, and not much original content on my part). There was also a page that had made the top 10 before, but not for several years - Theoretical Max Propeller Efficiency. That's another one I'm glad to see getting views.

If you've been following this blog, you may have noticed how the vast majority of my recent posts have been re-posts or adaptations of answers I've written for Quora. I realize that may seem a bit lazy, but there's only so much time I can devote to writing these types of things. As reflected by the name of this blog, my main time to write is during my lunch breaks (and it usually takes multiple lunch breaks to complete one article). The rest of the workday I'm busy with actual work, and by the time I get home, I have chores and projects to do around the house, and once I get caught up on that, I want to spend my remaining free time with family and friends. So, now that I've gotten caught up writing on Quora, I don't have much time left for coming up with original content for this site. So, it's either re-post, or post nothing.

Overall traffic has been down just a bit, but still higher than what it was this time last year, so not too far out of line.

Anyway, here are the lists for last three months.


Top 10 for February 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. Retroactive Soapbox Entry- Fed Up with U.S. Public, Part II
  4. Ray Comfort's New Movie - Evolution vs. God
  5. Richard Dawkins' Litmus Test
  6. A Skeptical Look at MBT Shoes
  7. Theoretical Max Propeller Efficiency
  8. A Skeptical Look at Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy
  9. Rick Santorum
  10. Response to Global Warming Denialist E-mail - Volcanoes and Global Cooling


Top 10 for March 2016

  1. Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
  2. Response to Rabbi Steven Pruzansky - Why Romney Didn't Get Enough Votes to Win
  3. Response to an Editorial by Ken Huber
  4. Retroactive Soapbox Entry- Fed Up with U.S. Public, Part II
  5. Book Review - God- or Gorilla?, Chapter 23
  6. Response to Global Warming Denialist E-mail - Volcanoes and Global Cooling
  7. E-mail Forward - Obama's Reaction to Ft. Hood Shootings
  8. The 2014 Texas Republican Platform
  9. Happy Exploration Day 2013
  10. Are the Beatles Overrated?


Top 10 for April 2016

  1. Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
  2. Response to Rabbi Steven Pruzansky - Why Romney Didn't Get Enough Votes to Win
  3. Response to an Editorial by Ken Huber
  4. Retroactive Soapbox Entry- Fed Up with U.S. Public, Part II
  5. Response to Global Warming Denialist E-mail - Volcanoes and Global Cooling
  6. Book Review - God- or Gorilla?, Chapter 23
  7. Creationist Dishonesty and a Follow Up to Previous Entries
  8. Autogyro History & Theory
  9. Arguing on a Website - Explaining Evolution
  10. Rick Santorum

Friday, February 5, 2016

Website Update - Top 10 Page List for January 2016

Top 10 ListThe first month of the new year is over, and with the end of a month, it's time again to look at the server logs to see what pages from this site have been popular.

There were several newcomers to the list this time around, but all the newcomers were actually older entries from a few years ago. One of the newcomers sort of made sense, Rick Santorum (an entry where I criticized Santorum - and reading over it again, boy is he a despicable politician). Given the current presidential race, I can understand why people might have been researching Santorum. The other newcomers to the list are a bit more puzzling why they just recently became popular - Arguing on a Website - Explaining Evolution, E-mail Forward - Obama's Reaction to Ft. Hood Shootings, and Ray Comfort's New Movie - Evolution vs. God. The Ray Comfort one's a little surprising because I had later entries where I reviewed the movie in depth, and those entries had made this list before,

Overall traffic was in line with what it has been for a while.

Anyway, here's the list for last month.

Top 10 for January 2016

  1. Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
  2. Response to Rabbi Steven Pruzansky - Why Romney Didn't Get Enough Votes to Win
  3. Retroactive Soapbox Entry- Fed Up with U.S. Public, Part II
  4. A Skeptical Look at Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy
  5. Rick Santorum
  6. Arguing on a Website - Explaining Evolution
  7. E-mail Forward - Obama's Reaction to Ft. Hood Shootings
  8. Letter to Pharmacy about MBT Shoes
  9. Response to Global Warming Denialist E-mail - Volcanoes and Global Cooling
  10. Ray Comfort's New Movie - Evolution vs. God

Friday, January 8, 2016

Website Update - Top 10 Page List for December 2015

Top 10 ListI'm back from the holidays (other than a short weekend trip to San Antonio, I didn't 'leave' - I just took some time off from work and so didn't have lunch breaks to work on this blog), and with the end of the year, it's time to look at the server logs for December to see what pages were most popular on the site. The list was mostly the same pages that have been popular for the last few months, but there were two surprises. The entry, Response to E-mail: One Nation Under Wal-Mart?, made the list for only the second time. It's kind of old, written back in 2013, but maybe with the upcoming election season the chain mail I was responded to has started making the rounds again. Similarly, the entry, Response to Another E-mail on U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, made it for the first time ever. It's another entry from 2013 that I can only guess is popular because of recent politics (though December was too early for Obama's recent series of executive actions designed to curb gun violence to have had any effect on traffic on this site).

There were not big surprises this time. Every page that made the list had made it before, though it had been a little while for one of the pages (What's the Point of Intercessory Prayer?).

Overall traffic was in line with the rest of the year, and up just a bit from the past couple months. In fact, by two metrics, Visits and Pages, it was the busiest month of the year, though by other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Hits, and Bandwidth, a few other months did better.

Anyway, here's the list for December.

Top 10 for December 2015

  1. Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
  2. Email Debunking - 1895 8th Grade Final Exam
  3. Response to Rabbi Steven Pruzansky - Why Romney Didn't Get Enough Votes to Win
  4. Retroactive Soapbox Entry- Fed Up with U.S. Public, Part II
  5. Response to Global Warming Denialist E-mail - Volcanoes and Global Cooling
  6. Obamacare Lives (A Discussion of the Individual Mandate)
  7. The 2014 Texas Republican Platform
  8. Obamacare Lives (A Discussion of the Individual Mandate)
  9. Review of Ray Comfort's New Movie - Evolution vs. God, Part I
  10. Response to E-mail: One Nation Under Wal-Mart?
  11. Response to Another E-mail on U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Website Update - Top 10 Page List for October 2015

Top 10 ListWell, it's another month over, so another opportunity to look at the server logs to see what pages on this site were most popular over the last month.

There were not big surprises this time. Every page that made the list had made it before, though it had been a little while for one of the pages (What's the Point of Intercessory Prayer?).

Overall traffic's down a bit from September, but then again September was pretty high. October was pretty much in line with the traffic for the rest of the year.

Anyway, here's the list.

Top 10 for October 2015

  1. Retroactive Soapbox Entry- Fed Up with U.S. Public, Part II
  2. Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
  3. A Skeptical Look at MBT Shoes
  4. What's the Point of Intercessory Prayer?
  5. Email Debunking - 1895 8th Grade Final Exam
  6. Review of Ray Comfort's New Movie - Evolution vs. God, Part I
  7. Response to an Editorial by Ken Huber
  8. Obamacare Lives (A Discussion of the Individual Mandate)
  9. Response to Global Warming Denialist E-mail - Volcanoes and Global Cooling
  10. The 2014 Texas Republican Platform

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Website Update - Top 10 Page List for September 2015

Top 10 ListNow that September's over, it's time to take a look at the logs to see what pages were most popular on this site over the past month.

Most of the pages had made the list before, even if it had been a little while since some of the pages had made it. There was one newcomer, Hercules Misunderstands Atheists - Responding to Kevin Sorbo, where I was responding not so much to Sorbo himself, but some views he has that seem to be representative of too large a segment of the population.

Traffic was up in September - not the highest it's ever been, but close too it. And in fact, it was up in just about every metric AWStats reports. I know some of that is due to spammers, but I'm going to pretend/hope that it's mostly real live people reading my site.

I'll also apologize for writing so much about Ben Carson recently. I don't want this to become the anti-Ben Carson blog, but he's just been popping up all over the place recently, particularly now that polls are putting him in either first or second place for the Republican nomination. I also have a friend who's a Carson fan, so I hear quite a bit of support for Carson in my regular offline life, which possibly motivates me to vent a bit here on the site. I'll try to get back to writing about more varied topics, but I'm not going to promise that you've seen the last of my Ben Carson entries (BTW, I now have a Ben Carson Index with links to all of my entries about Ben Carson).

Anyway, here's the list.

Top 10 for September 2015

  1. Retroactive Soapbox Entry- Fed Up with U.S. Public, Part II
  2. Origin of Arabic Numerals - Was It Really for Counting Angles?
  3. Email Debunking - 1895 8th Grade Final Exam
  4. A Skeptical Look at MBT Shoes
  5. Review of Ray Comfort's New Movie - Evolution vs. God, Part I
  6. Hercules Misunderstands Atheists - Responding to Kevin Sorbo
  7. Casio EX-F1 - First Impression of the High Speed Video
  8. Obamacare Lives (A Discussion of the Individual Mandate)
  9. Response to Global Warming Denialist E-mail - Volcanoes and Global Cooling
  10. Book Review - Tribulation Force

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