If your site has been loading slowly recently (like mine was towards the end of last week) you may want to try removing your Blogrolling.com blogroll to see if it helps.

My site was taking 10-15 seconds to load when it usually takes less than a second, and when I removed the blogrolling code it zipped back to full speed.

I’m not saying you should stop using them, just temporarily remove the code until they fix whatever was causing their server to be so slow. I just wanted to share because it took me a while to figure out why it was slow. I thought it was my server until I found that the only slow page on my site was the main index page.

When I was wee lad, friends told me that the number of gold stripes on the inside liner of your tie was an indication of its quality. I don’t know why, but I recently thought of those claims and became suspicious. If that were the only indication of quality, why couldn’t other manufacturers add stripes? It didn’t seem right, and thanks to Cecil Adams of The Straight Dope, I learned that my young friends were full of it. There is little veracity to such claims, and he even explained how they came to be.

You learn something every day.