Lately I’ve been fielding a bunch of canon law questions. I want to make sure that–to the best of my ability–I answer the questions folks are interested in, but it’s struck me that we haven’t had many biblical questions lately, and I’d like to increase the ratio of them that I’m doing, if possible. I’m therefore inviting biblical questions in particular at the time.
If you have one, feel free to e-mail.
Sorry, guys, but I’m suffering from a pinched nerve in my upper back right now (right in the withers) and it’s keeping me offline, so I’ll be taking a blog day off.
YEE-HAW!
JimmyAkin.Org has now passed the three million mark in the number of hits (page views) it has received since moving to TypePad.
The last time we passed a million mark was in March, so we’ve had another million hits in about six months (a little more).
So thanks and mazel tov to all who helped make this possible, and I hereby declare today JA.O 3 Million Day!
I just wanted to pen a note that I’ve been meaning to pen for quite a while.
Without using an actual pen, of course.
Here’s what’s on my mind: We’ve had a dramatic growth in the number of comments that folks are leaving since JA.O started, and I think that’s just great. I enjoy reading folks’ comments, watching discussions underway, etc., just as much as everyone else. In fact, in some ways moreso since the comments tell me that I’m connecting with people–that I’m writing stuff that they find interesting enough to comment on. I’m always really pleased to see it when a post gets a large number of comments, and kinda disappointed when it gets only one or two (or none). But on balance, the comboxes on JA.O have become a very active place, with many recent posts having 100-200 comments or more.
Wow! Thanks, guys!
The amount of com traffic (to borrow a Star Trek term; or is it B5?) is so great at this point that I am unable to keep up with it. Since my blog is a side project that is not part of work, I can only blog in the evenings (or during lunch or on break), which is why you see me commenting so infrequently during the day. When I get home in the evenings, though, I have to focus on writing the posts for the next day (otherwise folks’ll have nothing new to read). Consequently, I can’t spend a lot of time reading the comboxes. I try to skim them, but I can’t do much more than that.
Now here’s why I mention this: I sometimes see folks asking me questions in the comboxes or making requests or things like that. I feel bad that there are probably many people who are asking questions or making requests that I never see.
So I have my own request to make: If anyone has a question or suggestion that they want to make sure that I see, I’d ask that it be e-mailed to me.
I read and appreciate all of the e-mail I get, though–as I’ve
noted–I unfortunately do not have time to reply to it all and I can’t
promise that I’ll do a blog post based on any particular e-mail. Time
constraints prohibit that, but I really do want to be able to know
about and give attention to the questions and suggestions people have.
Of course, you can put the same question or request in the combox, too, as long as it’s on topic. I often see people posting questions for me in the combox when then another reader (or readers) helpfully answer before I even stumble across the place, so the other readers are a great resource for trying to get questions answered also. Just the other day one gentleman asked for a list of good sources to turn to when trying to get official answers to questions, and I thought that the ones the other comboxers came up with were excellent. In fact, the ones I saw being recommended were the same ones I would have recommended myself, which made me really proud of what intelligent readers I have.
So thanks, and have a great day!
I need a blog day off today.
But Michelle will have a couple of posts, so enjoy . . .
Sorry, folks, but I need a blog day off today.
Have fun with the current discussions and archives!
TypePad is currently having a problem with some combox totals not updating, which is why today’s posts are currently listed as having zero comments even though there ARE discussions going on in their comboxes.
TypePad is aware of the problem and trying to fix it.
In the meantime, to participate in the discussions, just click on the Comments link even though it says (0).
I’m sorry, but I’m afraid I’m going to need a blog day off today.
This morning I received word of the unexpected death of a friend (not a person who I’ve mentioned on the blog before; they’re all fine) and when I got home last night I was still absorbing the shock and didn’t have the emotional energy to write blog entries for today.
Blog service should resume tomorrow.
Thanks for understanding.
Sorry, folks, but work on Secret Project #4 yesterday prevented me from being able to blog in the evening, so I need to take a blog day off.
Regularly scheduled JA.O service should resume tomorrow.
Have fun with the archives!
I’m looking for a utility that would enable me to change British to American spellings in a document. Maybe some kind of grep thing. Anyone have a line on anything like that?
Some of those can mess with Internet texts that I convert to speech.