By the numbers

Just the other day the guy who sits next to me at work was bumming out that his blog, Numeralist, wasn't getting any traffic.

He was thinking of giving up, but I encouraged him to keep on with it.

Just two days later, he wrote up an interesting analysis of the U.S. before and after four years of Bush.

Now his site is getting hammered and his page views are through the roof because sites such as Totalfark and MSNBC have picked up his story.

I told him that his piece was his "Catcher in the Rye" or "The Great Gatsby" of blog posts.

Here's another thing that the Numeralist wrote:

Analysis of a debate between George Bush and Jacques Chirac set to a Dr. Seuss poem.