Blogging has been light due to the fact that I had two papers to finish and a trial to prepare for. This will continue until after the trial is concluded; don't head for the hills if I'm not publishing on a regular basis.

Gah, I hate the end of the semester.

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Hrrm. Today's the six-month anniversary of the opening of this blog. Three hundred and eleven entries later, I'm still cracking at it, and learning all the while. I've met a lot of people who I would not have otherwise met, and I have had a lot of fun.

I reckon since I've kept this up to this point, the numbers suggest that I'll keep at it for a while. Hooray, eh.

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I've been kicking around the idea of signing up with Technorati, but I'm somewhat hesitant to do so. What I don't see is the tremendous value of signing up; from what I can tell, I get some sort of faster indexing, and I'm not sure that it's all that important.

As you can see, I'm quite in the dark on this one, and would appreciate some clarification, please.

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Well, now this is amazing. I was on a downward spiral from my "Flappy Bird" status of late last week, but a quick check of the Ecosystem shows that I'm actually up to #1503, classified as an Adorable Little Rodent.

This is really cool. However, it wouldn't be possible without each and every blogger who's been kind enough to link to me. I appreciate your courtesy.

I don't use BlogRolling, so each and every link you see here has been manually added by me. That means if you've got a blog that manually links to me, and you don't see yourself on my blogroll, let me know.

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1 Go you!! I'm actually devolving since my URL changed. With the auto redirect, a lot of people just don't change their link [pout]. Oh well. I used to handcode my blogroll too, then I just couldn't keep up with it anymore so I switched to blogrolling.

Posted by: Ith at April 20, 2004 07:50 PM (Q8zt1)

2 I'm wondering when _that_ will start collapsing, actually. Did you change your blog details at the Ecosystem site? That _might_ help. Can you fix anything at blogrolling.com in order to work with that? Much of this blogging thing is alien to me. I just _write_.

Posted by: The Country Pundit at April 20, 2004 11:26 PM (QUo4+)

3 I did change my info, but all it looks at, from what I can tell, is an actual link to a specific URL. So for me, it's almost like starting out fresh. But my traffic is up, so I'm not complaining really

Posted by: Ith at April 21, 2004 04:45 PM (Q8zt1)

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I'm a Flappy Bird in the TTLB Ecosystem; hurrah! I know that this is temporary and that I can't hold on forever---probably drop back into the 2200s soon---but for a brief shining moment, I'm #1700 on the list.

Sorry. This is just a celebratory post, ephemeral and fleeting. Like George C. Scott's rendition of General G.S. Patton, Jr., said, "All glory is fleeting". And yes, this blog is only mortal. But hooray for the time being. I've been listed on blogs that I didn't know existed, and that's always cool.

Three cheers for the Bear.

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1 Congrats!

Posted by: Ith at April 16, 2004 02:42 PM (Q8zt1)

2 Thanks, Ith! For what it's worth, your links to me have helped out. Doubly great is the fact that I'm seeing your site in the referrers list on a pretty regular basis, and I appreciate your courtesy. I just hope I'm kinda sorta returning the favor. Heh heh heh.

Posted by: The Country Pundit at April 16, 2004 08:18 PM (w2U3+)

3 Glad I can help out Not that my traffic is stellar, but it's consistent at least.

Posted by: Ith at April 17, 2004 04:58 PM (DWVVf)

4 I predict you'll be a Large Mammal soon.

Posted by: Interested-Participant at April 17, 2004 07:16 PM (gwUM9)

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I've been wandering through the far reaches of the blogosphere lately, and I've run into way too many sites that use the same template as me. Therefore, I'm looking for input from the readership as to what kind of visual changes they'd like to see in order to make the site a) easier to read, b) visually distinctive, and c) more reflective of the content.

All suggestions (other than "shut it down") are appreciated, so send 'em on it by way of comments or e-mail. Thanks!

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Why is it that I never get the "Updated" notation on the Blogs for Bush blogroll? There must be something that I don't have set up right or some ping that isn't getting sent, because I don't think I've ever been on it.

Bother.

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