In the Coracle

Where You Come From

March 16, 2006 // 3 Comments »

A couple of weeks ago I found a new web counter, WebStats4u, that’s got a fantastic bit of functionality - it shows you where (company, country) the readers of a website come from.

According to this new thing, visitors to this little blog, which is averaging somewhere around 40 hits a day, have recently come from these countries and organizations:

Norway
Oman
Hong Kong
Belgium
India
Australia
Germany
Japan
South Africa
Singapore
Malaysia (is that you, Sivin Kit?)

and these organizatoins:

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Alaska legislature Online, Juneau, United States

And that’s just in the last couple of days.

To which I can only say two things: 1) back to work :-); and 2) thanks for stopping by.

A while back somebody from one of the publishing companies was dropping in. If you come back again, I can write better than this, I promise.

If you want to claim your country or your company, comment below. Or feel free to continue to lurk :-)

You can see it directly yourself on this site by clicking on the little blue icon at the very bottom of the page, or just by clicking this link.

The other stat trackign system I was and still am using, wp-stattraq, apparently doesn’t filter out bot hits - search bots, etc - and also counts newsreaders like bloglines. There’s a great hit count disparity between those two (stattraq tells me I have around 800 users a day). Therefore I have no idea how many people stop by here in reality, b ut the global hits are humbling and exciting at the same time. Stattraq shows me search terms that bring people to my blog, though, which are always entertaining.

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Now Proudly Skinned by Squible

November 20, 2005 // 1 Comment »

Finding a good 2+ column theme that would work for IE6 proved to be quite a daunting task. (I’m very hopeful that upcoming versions of the browser will support CSS better than the current one.)

But I was extremely happy to see that the most unique theme I’ve seen recently, Squible, works great on both Firefox and IE - at least to my first view. I have much modifying to do, but please feel free to poke around here and let me know what you think about the new view.

First up: I’m not sure how Squible handles Links displays.

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Theme broken in IE

November 17, 2005 // No Comments »

I realized yesterday that i’ve broken this blog’s theme in IE; I’ll fix it as soon as i can. For now, IE users can see the right column way way way down on the bottom of the page.

[Update: Apparently the Scattered theme never did work in IE. Oops. I didn't know that ;-) It was time to update the theme anyway...]

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Welcome to In the Coracle, Pat Loughery's blog. Make yourself at home, and do join in the conversation by commenting on what you find here.

I blog a lot these days about spirituality and spiritual formation, and I have a particular interest in learning from the early Christian church's approach to spirituality and mission.

I'm a student at Bakke Graduate University, studying for a Doctor of Ministry in Transformational Leadership for the Global City. Here's my working thesis:

I am studying Celtic, Benedictine and Orthodox monasticism because I want to discover what frameworks these spiritualities provide so that my reader may understand how spiritual formation serves God’s mission.

You can read more about me and this blog at the About page.