I contacted info@solidfoodmedia.com and asked if they had the notes available for the church history series currently being completed. I received a response back today saying the materials would be made available to the public after the series is complete in just a few more weeks. I'll keep everyone updated. Having the notes along with the audio will make the learning experience even better.

I have gone through and updated the theology section of Westerfunk.net and added links, updated others, and added a new subsection with resources pertaining to church history. Good stuff! Check it out ... www.westerfunk.net/theology .

I became discontent with the Yahoo! News feed. So I have switched over to using Breitbart.com for the News Summary on the front page of Westerfunk.net.

I have created a new section under my sermons section (login required) on Westerfunk.net that features two series on church history. The first one is by Tommy Nelson, who did a series back in the 90's that focuses mostly on the historical developments. The second is a series of Sunday School lectures that focuses mostly on the theological development over the centuries. Good stuff! If you need a login, just email me @ https://www.westerfunk.net/contact/email/ .

Since DesiringGod.org has all of Piper's sermons available at a faster rate at which to download, and in an effort to reduce the amount of traffic on my systems, I have now put a link directly to the sermons located on DesiringGod.org. They have all of them, so there is no reason to download them off of my site anymore.

Recently, I wrote out a testimony of my life so people can get to know me better and see where the Lord has brought me from, by His power alone. I have posted the testimony on the left-hand menu of Westerfunk.net and put it under the About link of DavidWesterfield.net. Check it out and may it encourage you.

The systems went down about 3:00 am - 3:15 due to power outages from the storms, but things are back up now. However, you may see continual outages of connectivity to my site until it has passed.

I have added two new categories to my blog site, Weather and Health.

It has been a long time coming, but I finally added a page explaining what Westerfunk.net actually is. Very basically, it is a centralized place where I can share all kinds of information with people. Check it out ... /about/.

For those of you using the links on the right-hand side, I have moved them to their own page, /topdownloads/.

I have moved the games links on the left-hand menu of Westerfunk.net to their own page @ http://www.westerfunk.net/games/. So if you're looking for them, just look to the left-hand menu and there is a link.

Last night I moved my news site to DavidWesterfield.net and I formatted it with the new design of the blog site to make it consistent.

For whatever reason, apparently the power turning off and on for a just a second, caused my servers to restart. But the bigger question is why Apache didn't come back up even though it is set to restart the service in the case of a service start failure. Well, it's back up now, so there you go.

Last night, I redesigned the layout for my blog site, DavidWesterfield.net. Check it out! www.davidwesterfield.net

I just now realized the John Piper sermons were unavailable for downloading because I misspelled the folder name "downloadsermons" using "downloadsermoins". It's fixed.

I've gone through and added quite a few things to dramatically increase the speed at which all of the websites running on my systems process information, both at the file level and at the server level.

First of all, I added a PHP application optimization program called eAccelerator and which caches the PHP code for quicker use so it doesn't have to pull it every time it is hit at run time.

Next I setup reverse proxy caching (using memory instead of disk storage) to cache all static files such as images, html, css, etc, so the web server load is minimized.

The next thing I did was setup the MySQL server to cache all of the queries made so it doesn't have to run them every time a call is made (similar to eAccelerator), which is frequently. The last thing I did, which was very simple, was set the RSS feed calls for the feed headlines at the top of my pages to just pull a single feed in the entry instead of all 20 every time a call is made.

All of these things together have dramatically improved the performance of my web sites.

The Wayback Machine is always a fun thing to mess around with. I went through and found older versions of the site here to show the progression. It has come along way from when I first started it (back before 2002 I believe), adding new features and better design. This is not really news, but I just thought it was cool to look back. Some of the content will not show up, but it at least shows you what it looked like.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.westerfunk.net

Nov. 2002: http://web.archive.org/web/200211240044 ... rfunk.net/
Feb. 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/200302100242 ... rfunk.net/
Feb. 2004: http://web.archive.org/web/200402200654 ... rfunk.net/
Apr. 2005: http://web.archive.org/web/200504220926 ... rfunk.net/
Jan. 2006: http://web.archive.org/web/200601081143 ... rfunk.net/
Mar. 2007: http://web.archive.org/web/200703260431 ... rfunk.net/

On the main page, scroll down to the DFW weather section and you'll find a new interactive radar provided by NBC5i and MyWeather.net.

I have now setup the latest version of ModSecurity. So if you experience any issues viewing content, posting on the contact page, or posting comments, please let me know ASAP via email @ webadmin<at>westerfunk.net. I need to make sure this thing works well because I would prefer to have a web application firewall in front of the sites I host to keep bots and hackers out. However, sometimes, in order to get all the sites working as they did before without the app firewall in place, you have to tweak a few things. I have made a few adjustments on several rules that were set that I saw right off the bat in the error logs, but I can't monitor that continually to find every possible problem. So keep me informed.

MyWeather.net Flash Radar

I just recently found this on NBC5i.com's site. They have setup a new customizable radar and so I figured out how to just use the SWF file to display the radar in the full window of the browser. Just thought I would share it. Check it out!