BlogShares - The Struggling Grad Student. Hmmm....due to the sudden high number of hits I've seen for my site, I decided to peruse my visitor IP log to see if there was some glitch in my code/site. While looking through the log, it appears that a number of search engines are crawling through, some quite often. I came across a rather interesting search engine -- blogshare (link above). Actually, turns out that blogshare crawls through blogs specifically and is not a search engine in the traditional sense. Just so happens that my blog has a "value." Sure, it's a fictitious game, but if I generate more traffic, I should theoretically see my value go up! Help make this site successful by doing any of the following: 1) place a link to my site in your blog, 2) just come by and visit/read sometime, 3) comment and trackback as often as possible, and 4) if you're a registered blogshare user, buy some of my blogshare. I promise that it'll be worthwhile, with lots of goodies to help you through your day (especially if you're a scientist in the field of biology/medicine). Hopefully I'll be able to keep this up for a substantial portion of my life -- time and money will dictate. I've got a few more topics to blog about today and will split them up to be a little more organized. Notice that now, since I'm listed at blogshare, I have a little icon on the left signifying this.