Huh.

I wasn't thinking about this, but the last post ended up working as some sort of "in which countries are people looking at my blog?" thing. On my personal website, I have Google Analytics set up, which tells me which general areas people who look at the site come from (unless they live in a one-person city, there's no way to identify them, so this is only moderately creepy - if it's any consolation, most websites have something like this now).

Anyway, after I linked to my site from this blog, I unexpectedly got a huge rise in the number of people according to Analytics. For instance, it's had more than 20 hits the past two days, and 10 hits from Brazil yesterday (on a normal day, the site gets between 1 and 4 visits). I don't mind popularity, and I've heard great things about Brazil, but... what??? Are these real people? Spam bots? Does anyone know?

(And... we're back in the US in only 20 days!)