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Star Wars Pumpkins Live Again

Ray Fowler — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:37:56 +0000

I have been getting a lot of visitors to the Star Wars Pumpkins post from a couple years back. I still like the Death Star pumpkin the best. How about you?

Click here to visit Star Wars Pumpkins.

1 Million Blog Visitors!

Ray Fowler — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:00:44 +0000

Woo-hoo! The visitor count at RayFowler.org broke the one million mark last night . I feel like celebrating, so go out and treat yourself to something really nice!

Here is a snapshot of the statcounter from last night around 11:00 p.m. The relevant stat here is the total under the column marked “Unique Visitors” (1,000,052).

The one-millionth visitor hailed from Manakin Sabot, Virginia in the United States. They arrived at the blog via a Google search for “psalm 8 sermon,” which brought them to the sermon at the following link: Our Place in God’s Creation – Psalm 8.

It has been a great privilege to share my thoughts on God and life from a Christian perspective with you these past three and half years. I want to thank all the readers who have visited the blog during this time and encouraged me to keep blogging. So let’s go for a second million! (Lord willing!)

Related post: New Blog Under Construction (from March 6, 2007)

Quentin Smith’s Desk

Ray Fowler — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:09:52 +0000

Welcome Digg users! A number of you are looking for the picture of Quentin Smith’s desk. Click on the following link to go to the post you are looking for: A Messy Desk is the Sign of an Orderly Mind.

By the way, if you like the post feel free to go ahead and Digg it. I don’t think it has been Dugg before.

Blog Maintenance (7/18/2010)

Ray Fowler — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:17:28 +0000

Sorry if you had any troubles with the blog this weekend. I ran into some problems and had to restore a backup version of the database. The backup was a week old, so that also meant rebuilding the posts and comments from the past week. I apologize if you got a number of repeat posts in your email or RSS feed. It seems to be fixed now, so hopefully things are back to normal (or for what passes for normal around here!).

Blog Break – 11/14/2009

Ray Fowler — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:48:56 +0000

Sorry everyone, but I need to close the blog down again for a while. I am moving this week and will not be able to keep up with posts or comments.

Once again, If you are a regular reader, instead of checking in each week to see if the blog is back up, there is a better way. Click here to subscribe by email, and you will automatically get an email notifying you when I start posting again. (This is through a service called FeedBurner. There is no cost, and they do not give away your email address or use it for anything else.) Or if you are familiar with RSS, you can subscribe by feed reader.

Thanks, and Lord willing I will see you back here after a while!

Related Post: Extended Blog Break

Extended Blog Break

Ray Fowler — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:10:30 +0000

I will be taking an extended break from blogging starting today. No, I am not burned out on it. I enjoy sharing information and interacting with you through the blog, and I will miss this part of my daily routine. But as we are in the midst of trying to sell our house and in process of seeking God’s next place for us, I need to focus on other things right now.

How long of a break am I planning? I don’t know yet. It may be several weeks. It may be for the rest of the summer. At this point I just need to take things one week at a time.

If you are a regular reader, instead of checking in each week to see if the blog is back up, there is a better way. Click here to subscribe by email, and you will automatically get an email notifying you when I start posting again. (This is through a service called FeedBurner. There is no cost, and they do not give away your email address or use it for anything else.) Or if you are familiar with RSS, you can subscribe by feed reader.

I will keep comments open for a few more days, but after Wednesday this week all comments will be closed until I return. However, I will keep the blog and all its archives up and open for searching and browsing. If you have any questions or I can help you in any way, you are always welcome to contact me by email. God bless, and thank you for reading!

Blog is Two Years Old

Ray Fowler — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:05:53 +0000

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the start of this blog. It has been a good year with a lot of new readers and guests. I somehow hit the front page of Digg back in June which gave the blog a nice boost (you can read about it here), but most of the growth has come through good old-fashioned word-of-mouth via links on the web and the magic of search engines.

Here is a comparison of this year’s stats with last year’s:

Visitors:

Page Views:
This year: 633,215
Last year: 118,489

I realize that is chump change compared to the “super blogs” out there, but it is some nice growth and I am happy to share what I share on this blog with as many people as I do. So thanks for reading, thanks for linking, thanks for commenting, and here goes for year number three!

Related post: 1-Year Blogiversary Bash!

Look Ma, Someone Messed Up My Blog!

Ray Fowler — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:36:31 +0000

Oh, that would be me. One of these days, I will enjoy a simple, pain-free process in upgrading my blog. Today is not that day. Oh well, until I get it all figured out, I apologize for the strange layout problems you may be viewing (wide-stretched theme, misplaced sidebar, double photo in header, etc). Unfortunately, I have neither the time nor energy to fix it right now.

Update: I have temporarily switched over to the WordPress Default theme until I can get things fixed on my regular theme. The default theme does not display the links to the pages, so here they are if you are looking for them.

Blog Pages:
Archives / Profile / Resources / Sermons / Stats / Top Posts / Writings

Update 2: Fixed. It turns out there was a bug with K2 RC7 and WordPress 7.1. Here is the link if anyone has the same problem: WordPress 2.7.1 and K2 1.0-RC7 I just uploaded the new info.php file, and everything worked fine again.

Back to Blogging

Ray Fowler — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:22:36 +0000

After many hours, plenty of mistakes, and lots of backtracking, I finally finished upgrading the blog to WordPress 2.7 and K2 RC7. A big thanks to Tom Nasiatka for all his help and to all the helpful people at the WordPress and K2 Forums. (I think the upgrade would have gone smoother if I actually knew what I was doing!)

Blog Break

Ray Fowler — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:42:42 +0000

I will be taking a break from posting this week. I will also be doing some badly needed blog maintenance, so don’t be surprised if the blog keeps changing in appearance throughout the week as I work on updating the software and theme.

In the meantime, if you are interested in starting a Bible reading plan for the New Year, here are some links I posted last year that you should find helpful.