When you visit this page, take a look at the counter at the bottom of the sidebar column. Write me if you’re visitor number 30,000 (since 9/3/01 when I started counting), sometime soon. (I seem to run a pretty consistent 500 visitors a day. Of course, that’s probably only 20 of you each surfing over here twenty-five times daily…) Update: Thanks, all 30,000 of you. The big round number was Gordon Coale, who runs a pretty good weblog (eponymously named) himself.