July had a slight downtick to 49,000 visitors (August has already exceeded this). I continue to think that's just randomness, mostly due to fluctuations in search engine referrals. The holiday week is also a slow time.

July featured the appearance of some guest bloggers for the first time in this space. I think they did a great job - they certainly let me relax during my time away, knowing that the place was in good hands. Having decided that a little time off now and again is beneficial, I figure I'll do something like that once a year or so.

July also featured the unfortunate reappearance of referral log spam, which is still the stupidest use of spammer resources that I can imagine. I guess it's marginally less annoying than comment or trackback spam, but still.

Top referrers and search engine terms are beneath the fold. As always, thanks very much for coming by.

Aggregators, collections, indices, etc
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239:  http://www.bloglines.com
201:  http://blo.gs/

Weblog referrers

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1993:  Daily Kos


478:   Pink Dome


465:   In the Pink Texas


333:   TAPPED


252:   Greg's Opinion


249:   The Burnt Orange Report


187:   Atrios




Top search terms

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#reqs	search term

983	diane zamora

831	real men of genius

204	schlitterbahn galveston

152	budweiser real men of genius

130	beer bong

126	off the kuff

117	women of enron

114	tim mcglashen

107	thong contest

95	largest rat

87	walton and johnson

85	american idol try outs

85	reagan greer

78	kiol

73	ugly people

69	american idol tryouts

67	real men of genius lyrics

65	david graham diane zamora

64	david graham and diane zamora

62	texas cheerleaders