In that, it seems, technology itself is my nemesis. Which, given that this is a blog, is somewhat self-hating. Still.

It seems every time I open a new window I get a security warning which blocks all images. Not only that, but today I spent three hours listing this blog on every blog directory and bloody pinger I could find (manually) and, after all that blood, sweat, toil and/or tears, the stat counter (which I was loving at this new blog, since it counts hits in realtime rather than once a day – quite addictive!) the stat counter, I say, ladies and gentlemen,

THE STAT COUNTER is DOWN!!!!!!

Sooooo, there I was, feeling all smug and such. My parents, I thought, had they lived to see this day, would have been proud of their little girl. If, that is, they could figure out what I was talking about which, given the track record there is, come to think of it, unlikely.

I was in the top 1.5 million blogs on Technorati.

I felt rather chest-bustingly proud, myself. If this continues, I’ll be Page Three material in no time.

But that was before I knew the real numbers.

There are 29.8 million blogs on Technorati, and in one week of existence this blog has jumped to the top five percent.

Just as soon as I scrape together enough pennies for a drink, I’ll celebrate.

Power to the people!

Quick bloggy note: since the start of this blog, very late the night of February 27th, 2006 (ie less than a week ago) it’s gone up in the Technorati rankings by over 100,000. I swear, that makes it totally worth chewing through the leather straps every morning.