As of today, this little corner of the web has been viewed over 30,000 times since its inception around Thanksgiving 2003, about ten months ago.

Thirty thousand is a lot of page views, but we'd trade it all for a few more. (Monty Burns reference)

This weekend, I had a discussion with a friend about how meaningless it was to celebrate Barry Bonds's 700th home run, because it's just an arbitrary number and doesn't set any records. It's nice and round, but not especially different from 699, and not as grand as 701, which of course elicited much less hoopla.

But with blogs, I think the case is a little different. We're not chasing records; we're in this for longevity and endurance (of our fingers and your eyeballs). I think noting the achievement of round numbers is similar to putting mile-markers up on the interstate, so you can know how far you've come. As I see it, we've only passed a few mile-markers, but as the song goes, the road goes on forever and the party never ends.

So thanks for hanging in there in those moments when the party wasn't too hopping, and we look forward to more round numbers with you.