Sorry that yesterdays post gave impression that I was going to not blog. What I meant was that I was wondering why at a time that I am finding myself censoring much of what I might post.
I have already done the I am not gonna blog thing and I still did just kept the posts private.
For those keeping track the most viewed post of today is one on model ship building again. Next – the Orange you glad post. Coming in 5th yesterdays post.
After a post at THE MESS THAT IS MY MIND blog I thought I would track visitors for awhile again. Gosh it is funny really. I did discover that one of my posts has a very popular photo apparently. So I set up anti leech controls on it through cpanel and then took a look later. Still that post was getting hit a lot so I deleted the link to the larger version of the photo. Now the hits are getting lower and lower on that post and it’s rank in google has gone down. Amazing when folks cant snitch the pic how that works out. Not that visits to my blog are not important but rather have folks coming here to be friendly not stealing. I mean ask and I always do creative commons but when one pic is always getting hit I gotta assume the photos is getting used without attrition.
Next up on the popular list are some of the wooden ship model update posts.
Well now that I have written another post it will be interesting to see what happens next in the who is reading what and how they got here to read in the first place. Very disconcerting – the blog gets more hits on days where I have not written anything LOL so I might take this to mean silence is better?
Once I created a test page. Nothing on it but a graphic and a few key phrases. I did nothing for months but track hits. When things are active in the world – like this weeks Egypt news – people must use search engines more – I dunno but a page with nothing much on it that never changes gets more hits when big news is out . …
Oh please, spare me from the Black Eyed Peas!
Am I the only one that wants to get up and move the needle that is stuck on a track?
Repetition -and I still am to dang old to understand what the heck they are – and I use the word loosely – singing?
Pump it up? Naw pump it down PLEASE
UPDATE: as of this morning I can not find out any more info, the bolo was lifted? no new info? Lets hope it is for a good reason?
it is not often that I copy word for word someone else’s post but I am sure it is OK Passed on from odd times signatures:
Via Joy-Ann Reid:
Police in Miami (Miami-Dade County) are asking for the public’s help finding a missing child. If you’re in South Florida and have seen him, please contact police. His name is Octavius Howell and he’s just 11 years old. A little national media exposure wouldn’t be a bad thing, either.
From the Herald:
Octavius Howell, just shy of 5-foot tall and 80 pounds, was last seen Friday at the Madison Middle School at NW 10th Avenue and NW 90th Street.
He was wearing a red polo shirt and khaki pants.
People with information are asked to contacted Miami Detective Javier Soto at the Miami-Dade Police Special Victims Bureau’s Missing Persons Unit, 305-418-7201 or 305-476-5423.
The bureau issued a photo of the boy to accompany its plea.
As Joy-Ann notes, black missing children do not get the kind of national media attention that white missing children do. Witness the missing persons case of Phylicia Barnes, a 17-year old honor student from North Carolina who went missing in Maryland while visiting family.
Phylicia, who turned 17 on January 12, went missing on December 28, while visiting her college-age half-sister, 28, in Baltimore for the holidays. According to police, she had gone out at around 1:30 p.m. to grab a bite to eat and possibly get a hair cut.
Authorities have stated they believe she was abducted. Phylicia’s cell phone is off, she hasn’t used her debit card, and she has not updated her Facebook page, since her disappearance.
Phylicia is an honor student at a charter school and was set to graduate a year early due to her stellar academic record.
Her case has gotten almost no national exposure either. If you can blog this, or pass the word around (along with the picture), I’m sure Octavius’ parents would be grateful. Phylicia’s too.