I don’t get a ton of traffic from search engines, but when I do, it’s entertaining. By far, the most traffic I get is related to my Tuesday Night Football post. And then there was that period of time when Joe Frazier swimming sent me rocking to the top of some keyword chart:

(You gotta love Johnny Bench being disqualified for “walking”.)

But the phrase that made me the happiest, simply knowing that some putz out there besides me has the words of Dick Enberg so indelibly etched in his brain that he must resort to Google to purge the demon echoes is that fateful line from Mattell’s Talking Football: “trap up the middle for ten uh oh penalty”. Such a dramatic turn—you were all set, had the trap play going right into your opponent’s prevent defense, it looked like you got the first down—and then you lose.

Quick update to the site: I changed the comment system this afternoon to use Disqus, so you may see some changes. I noticed that a few of my favorite financial bloggers used the system, but I never figured out the secondary benefits of Disqus. Now I see the theme: collaborative social filtering, a metaweb that sits atop the web.

The walled gardens are dead.

The conversion process was straightforward. Fifteen minute, with all the old comments successfully ported. It remains to be seen if this will actually help me with the spam (or give me better tools to deal with it).