I commented a few days ago about my hit rate going down (it's actually increased slightly again since then). And combined with that, I told a co-worker today that I'd banned Google from crawling my site. She asked me why, and I really had no decent answer. I replied that I was sick of people coming to this site simply because they were searching for naked pictures of the Olsen twins and so forth, but she countered with the fact that they might come here and then stay because they found something worth reading (I doubt it, but you never know).

She said that she'd been found by former classmates and such who had Googled her, and I realize that now, when I put my own name into Google, I come up a few times -- but mostly in references on other people's websites. There are tons of other people out there with my name that dominate the search. Yet somehow there have been a few people who have found this site recently by searching for me specifically. And it makes me wonder how many people out there really do want to find me out of idle curiosity.

So I consider re-opening my site to search engines. I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm open to ideas. And I also wonder why Coors Light's marketing people are so fixated on twins.