Al was popular on December the 18^th, on this blog anyway – and allegedly.

But, of course, he wasn’t. It’s a scam of some sort, to be followed up by a sudden influx of offers to improve the marketability of my blog on the back of this ‘popularity’. The spam folder on the blog is full of complimentary if blatantly generic observations of any particular post to which the accolade is attached.

The worst is how the elongated spike on my viewing figures for that one exceptional day makes all of the other daily and wholly moderate visits seem so diminished…