Sveiki

Something interesting I just noticed about my blog... the country that produces the fourth most visitors to my blog is Latvia.  My blog doesn't get very many visitors, the vast majority of which are from the United States, and the vast majority of the remainder of which are from Canada.  I am quite surprised, in any event, that I have had so many visits from Latvia.  I am guessing most, or all, of these visits must be from the same person.  Or, while I don't know very much about computers, perhaps this is due to a router located in Latvia or something.  Is that possible?  Anyway, I just thought that was interesting.

War, French Style

From Yahoo:

We all work hard at the office, right? Of course. But sometimes, you have to take a break and let off some steam. And sometimes, a challenge must be met, and a battle joined. Thus it was that when employees at Ubisoft Montreuil in France decided to blow off some creative steam by decorating their building's windows with animated characters created out of Post-it notes, their neighbors across the street at BNP Bank declared a Post-it War.

How stereotypical.  The French would rather make art than work.  When I first saw this, the first thought I had was "what about all of the lost productivity?"

Worst City Names

Now for a completely irrelevant post...

It seems kind of confusing that there is a Greensboro in North Carolina, a Greenville in South Carolina and a Greenville in North Carolina.  Not to mention 21 other Greenvilles, plus Greeneville in Tennessee, and 7 other Greensboros.  Confusingly, many of these places are named for Nathaniel Greene, but only Greeneville, Tennessee includes the "e."

On the topic of common place names, according to Wikipedia, there are 34 populated places named Springfield in the US, including 4 in Wisconsin.  Strictly speaking about census-recognized locations, Franklin is the most common place name in the US, with 30 census-recognized locations with that name.