Just an entertaining blog stats observation: a few days ago I noticed that my blog stats started to really spike upwards. This completely confused me at first, as all the hits were appearing on my semi-old post on elephant intelligence. It took me a little while to realize that the post has apparently migrated to the top of some Google search results. For instance, if you type ‘elephant paintings hong‘, you get my post as the top entry! Typing ‘how do they teach the elephants to paint‘ will get me on the first page.

I’m glad I was relatively thorough in my discussion of the topic, which hopefully merits its inclusion high in the search pages. There’s a lesson here: don’t be too sloppy with a blog entry; you never know where it will end up!