A milestone

Sometime overnight, Insult Swordfighting served its 100,000th pageview. Well, not exactly -- I've been blogging since May 2006, but I didn't install StatCounter until December 2007. It's 100,000 pageviews since I started keeping track. Still, this seems significant.

So I'd like to take just the briefest pause from raving about Geometry Wars -- although I'm sure as hell not done with that -- and say thanks to everyone who's stopped by over the past eight months, and moreso to those who have stuck around. I am especially to grateful to that small but invaluable cadre of regular commenters, whose ideas and insights have helped out tremendously.

Most of all, thanks to that mysterious Scottish reader who clicked over to the Taxonomy of Gamers from Gamers with Jobs at 2:46 this morning to push it over the top. You win a prize!*

*You do not win a prize.

Anatomy of a traffic spike

Thanks, Kotaku!