A milestone day at Blast Off!

This is the 2,500th post on Blast Off! since its humble beginning on August 7, 2004. It's even more remarkable when you consider how much the stock market has dropped since then ...

Not only that, but this sucky blog will welcome its 250,000th visitor sometime today.

250,000 hits and 2,500 posts on the same day. Numerologists everywhere rejoice ...

UPDATE (1:29 pm 10/10/08): Congratulations to the quarter-millionth visitor, a Time Warner customer in San Antonio, Tex., who clicked over from a comment thread at Huffington Post at 1:23 pm EDT today. You win free admission to Blast Off! for life!