Fred Kiesche at The Eternal Golden Braid is a blogger I read regularly (usually daily). But I didn't learn until recently that he was in New York City on 9-11 and in a subway train under the South Tower when it came down.

His account of the day is simply gripping.

I hope he someday has peaceful dreams again during thunderstorms.

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The first rule of blogging is to update your blog regularly. But a funny thing happened when I stopped following that rule. My daily traffic doubled and has remained in the supra-500 hits-per-day range for the last 7 months or so of reduced posting. While many of my visitors come looking for airplane or science fiction babe pictures, they usually stick around for a few minutes at a time, which indicates to me that they like what they see.

My strategy may not be so flawed, based upon this article from Marketing Profs: Why Blog Post Frequency Does Not Matter Anymore.

Thanks to Agent Bedhead (new resident on my blogroll) for finding this nice rationalization for laziness around here.

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I hope all of you had a safe and happy 4th of July.

Below the fold, one of the great documents to emerge from the Enlightenment: more...

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