Well, I know I said I'd wait awhile, but when I get an idea in my head, I can't help but go forward. I opened a new blog specifically for photos. Right now it just has what I've already posted in this one. Here's the link: http://gryphonsgallery.blogspot.com/
Yesterday, it was a perfect full moon, with the perfect level of haze, perfectly backing and bordering it without obscuring it, but the batteries in our camera were run out. We tried putting dollar store batteries in, but there wasn't even enough for one shot.
I know life doesn't work like this, but it just seems so anticlimactic that the full moon would come the day after Halloween. Since this was a more eventful day for me, I am forced to assume that the world revolves around me.
As far as the Google thing is concerned, my name-dropping trap worked, but it just puts the two links together on the front page, with the unfortunate post indented beneath the new. This actually works better than it would otherwise, because Google doesn't keep indenting links. This means that, instead of having to drop my name enough times to get the undesired post off the front page, I only have to drop one more post, and the indented post will be replaced, and it will be not only off the front page, but off Google entirely.
There is an option provided by eBlogger to stop search engines from crawling your blog, but it must not work for Google. Ironic, since eBlogger is the Google brand for blogs. Their search engine anti-crawl measures don't work on their own search engine!
Maybe it only prevents crawling, but it can't un-archive what's already been crawled. That's why I'm still allowing it to crawl this blog, until I drop enough names to bury the unwanted content.
OH! You want to hear about the visit with my dad yesterday? It went fine. I don't publish specifics on personal encounters that includes the emotional involvement of others, without that person's consent. It's part of my privacy policy. I can speak a little about my perceptions on the general situation, however.
I felt it was a little more nerve-wracking this time, since it involved my mother and my brother, and since it involved him coming here, "on my turf", you know? The visit went off without a hitch. He dropped by and said hi to Mom and Duncan, then we went for a walk and I showed him around my neighborhood.
Aunt Nancy let me keep the bookbag she lent me to bring the loaner laptop to Guelph in, and she bought us a load of groceries! We certainly won't starve, at least, for a while longer.
Oh, and that reminds me... The Rent Bank won't do anything for us until we get on Welfare, and we've applied at Welfare, and every time we've been through this in the past, they've responded the next day, but they haven't yet today, and they've never called this late, either, even though it's only 2:30 and they can call any time up to 5:00. I've been sticking by the phone all day, too, so it's not like I could have missed them.
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My understanding of search engines and crawling is what you suspect: asking them not to index pages on your blog doesn't change what they've already indexed.
ReplyDeleteIt's similar to how the pages themselves work, except that it's easier to update content than it is to replace content ... which I suppose might be another option. Rather than burying the post in question, you could always try changing it completely (but you'd have to allow search engines to crawl your blog again).