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Observant users of this site will notice the ShoppingAds advertisements disappeared from the site yesterday.  Very observant users may have noticed a previous post that was on the bottom portion of this page promoting this same service had disappeared before that.

I have been experiencing some problems with ShoppingAds since late April.   I believed their accounting of website traffic was inaccurate.  Various reports on their site about my traffic contradicted each other.   Income had been below normal most of the year but really started dropping in April.  May’s total was less than half the running average.  So far, May is running at about 15% of what I would normally have expected.  Neither site traffic nor ad impressions have seen a similar drop.

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No, this not about a political candidate.   Instead I thought I’d write about some real change rather than sloganeering.

Since yesterday evening, the page layout of this blog has been changing.   These changes were designed to shorten the length of the blog’s home page while increasing the amount of information easily accessible from it.   I think I have suceeded.

The biggest changes are seen when you scroll down the page.   So, take a few moments to look at the whole page, rather than just the post at the top.

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In recent years OA Sections here in the Southeast generally all hold their conclaves on the third and fourth weekends in April. With Easter falling especially early this year, the schedule has been stretched out. Three sections are especially relevant to the lodges normally covered here.

S-4S, peninsular Florida, held their conclave this past weekend. We should have some updates for the new issues appearing there soon.

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I was recently asked a question about using the online inventory feature in this site’s members area. In a way I was a bit embarrassed that I hadn’t thought of this before.

Each user has their own inventory file stored on the server which they can have sent to them, to use offline however they chose. The first field of the file indicates the lodge using an alphanumeric string that is the same as the first part of the file name for each lodge’s web page on this site. For example, the code for White Horse lodge is “201b”. I was asked if there was another file that could convert this to the lodge’s number or name.

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