I observed just now that since the inception of Blogville, 992 blog posts have been made. This post you are reading will be blog post 993.

This means that we're just seven posts away from blog post 1000.

I wonder - who will make it? It could be Emj, since she posts in bursts. It might be Ph3y, Shinycoin or Auspicious, who make posts regularly and are due to make a post soon. It might even be someone who hasn't posted in ages, like Mulan or Soul Sista. Or it could be...

So the fortieth anniversary of the moon landing (yes, it really did happen, you conspiracy theorists) has come and gone... but did we really need to celebrate this?

After all, we commemorated the 10th, 20th and 25th anniversaries of this event... and we will doubtless be commemorating this again in 10 and 20 years' time.

What's the point? I'm sure we all know that these things have happened, and moreover with the passage of time, they have become less relevant. Should...