Cue the music please. "You're so vain, I bet you think this blog is about you. Donchew, donchew, donchew...."

        I had some blogging milestones in July:

• Two articles on the front page at the same time. (While others have accomplished it in the past, this was a first for me.)
• For a brief moment my blog was actually in the top 20. (After having received an artificial boost from two articles on the front page at once, of course.)
• An article listed on the sidebar as one of "Today's Top Referred Articles." (Maybe no big deal, but I always kept hoping one of my articles would show up there and finally one did: What a Jeopardy Champion Could Teach the Lakers.)
• I'm in the top 40 users. (Right now #40, to be exact. I had written a blog about how it was all over for me and my descent was inevitable, but so far I have continued to claw my way upward, inch by inch.)
• My first JU online brawl. (Not worth celebrating, but noteworthy.)

        I've noticed the more often one blogs, the higher one's blog rises. This makes sense. If you get X amount of readers per blog and Y average number of comments for X+(Y*5)=Z average number of points per article, then obviously writing, say, 7 articles a week will give you Z*7 more points per week than writing only one article a week. That doesn't even take into account that with more frequent updates people will check back more frequently, whereas with rare updates people tend to slowly stop coming at all, tired of never seeing anything new. Google will even slowly stop visiting you if you don't update. (Mark that down, frequency of visitors:frequency of updates.)

        So I am trying to blog more often, even if it is something as inane as this self-congratulatory little bit of self-horn tooting. I'll keep this off the forums, but that won't stop me from writing it and posting it!