A sense of perspective

The shameless promotion department informs me that sometime this weekend, possibly today, I'll pass 10,000 page views since I installed a stat counter March 3rd, 2005. That was really the beginning of taking this from an experiment to full-blown blog, and the shameless self-promotion began.

So I should be yelling, "Woo-hoo!" but then I saw this from Lance Burri at Granpa John's,

Is this for real? I was just looking through somebody else's blogroll and saw USS Clueless there, so I clicked over. As you may know, Steven DenBeste, the proprietor, retired from blogging last year.

There is one post at his site, dated from March of this year. Yet, the counter at the bottom claims "This page has been viewed 344 times today, 956 times yesterday, and 8624149 times since 20010726."

USS Clueless is currently ranked #171 on the TTLB Ecosystem. I'm currently ranked at #6387.

Now I know how John Ashcroft felt when he lost to Mel Carnahan.