Just a quick little blizzard this morning to remind everyone that it’s March and not May. Remember how, Mother Nature was saying, so many years there’s a big blizzard in mid-March? It’s not too late for that so don’t be going on so about it being spring already! Blam. Parts of the route I ended up travelling this morning had 4-6″ of snow on top of the nicely rutted roads. I took the “back way” to avoid the parking lot of cars and semis at the bottom of the first hill you need to go up and down. Couldn’t tell if there was an accident or what but I got tired of watching the 4WD folks decide – hell, I can get up that — pull out go up the oncoming lane of traffic in the face of down-coming semis. ick. I took the nice quiet newly-plowed route. Nope – not spring yet folks! Sorry robins.

Why are Mom and I smiling? Look at the beautiful quilt behind us! Another view.

Now here’s some research worth doubting. CNN is reporting that there are “very few bloggers on Net“

The study was largely based on random telephone surveys of 1,555 Internet users taken from March 12 to May 20, 2003. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

That survey found only 2 percent of users keeping blogs, although a preliminary analysis of follow-up surveys from early 2004 showed the figure increasing to about 7 percent.

uh….. yeah. Not only don’t I see that the study they’re reporting is very useful (certainly not all “internet users” do any kind of web page building at all let alone blogging), but you and I both know that if the headline was confirming “The impression out there… that a lot of the blog activity is very feverish” the rest of the article would be how blogging was going to end civilization as we know it.