Meteor Update 4 – They found some of it

November 28, 2008

This is a part of the 10 ton meteor that hurtled to earth last week. Apparently according to the Edmonton Journal only some relatively small fragments of the Meteor has been found.

you can see the video of the meteor stuck in some ice on a pond here. Read the rest of this entry »


From me to you

November 28, 2008

Just to let everyone know.  Today, this blog has surpassed the monthly mark for pages read.  I thank each one of you who read this blog.  You have given me plenty to think about and discuss over the past year.  It is amazing.

I was looking on Alexa.com the other day and I noted something.  I wanted to list this for each of you to look at because you might want to compare your own sites or you are just interested in playing around.

According to Alexa, Banner Sword and Shield ranks as the 8,583,051busiest website.

By Contrast I have put a list of some of the bigger Mormon sites (blogs) out there so you get a comparison:

LDS.org - 2,965

Mormon Times (Deseret News) 86,742

By Common Consent 321,798

Times and Seasons 406,767

Feminist Mormon Housewives 453,287

Mormon Matters 498,611

Mormon Mentality 668,495

Juvenile Instructor 3,193,386

So yes a ways to go yet but interesting nonetheless.


Fun with my router

November 28, 2008

Well that was a fun beginning of the day.  I have spent the last two hours working with my modem and router.

After two months of working just fine my Linsys WRT54G2 router decided that I really liked the internet at 56k modem speed.  (I do not)  So it slowed down on all webbrowsing.

So after calling my internet service provider, getting it unplugged, plugged and power cycled to death they blamed the router.  So I grabbed to router website, contacted someone on their live support who gave me the details of how to reset my router and set some preferences different on it.

So busily I worked until just a few minutes ago when voila, like a phoenix rising from the flames, my internet connection rose back to its multi megabit glory.  Happy days.