As my posts have slowed to a crawl, the page views keep piling up.  Less than a month ago this blog had achieved 13,378 page views, now the total stands at 14,117.  This figure would not be a blip on the scope for any popular blog.  But consider that I've been posting since April of 2005.  Perhaps the sudden surge of traffic is a sign that people finally want to hear about all those obscure blog topics I've been writing about?

While I should probably post even less often to drive my traffic up, up, up, I really do like to write and post.  Ideally, I would post once or twice a day.  This would, naturally, result in almost no page views at all.  We'll see what happens.

-- Walter Lounsbery, 3-21-2008

Someday I'll post a long drawn-out story about my experiences at that most Irish of University colleges, The Missouri University of Science and Technology (aka the University of Missouri - Rolla, aka the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy).  Let's just say I am really part Irish and a product of six years of S&T tradition training, where St. Pat's is a year-round thing.  For now, I'll try embedding a little animation for the holiday: