I have a strong hunch that AI ‘bots have been capturing this blog over the last few months. Every couple of weeks there is a massive surge in page views, each time suggesting that something is meticulously accessing every post in the 20-year archives of this site.

Unfortunately, because this site is hosted on TypePad, the paltry logs and stats make it difficult to say for certain. But I know that every other web spider has already cached this site, so such a thorough crawl wouldn’t be necessary.

Friends who also host at TypePad have noticed similar, unexplained surges in visitors. I’m not upset about it, just noting that it’s happening.

While I’m on the subject, let me add:

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