Yes, that's what Pro Blogger promises. Are you some weak-kneed, sappy blog? Do the other blogs kick sand in your face? Take their 31 day challenge, for a confident, muscular blog, the kind that gets the girl.

He's clearly of the opinion that you don't get a readership by being too fussy about capitals and punctuation, and I suspect he may be right. I'm assuming he's better with blogs than he is with grammar, and I'm going to give it a shot. I'm going to try not to be sardonic about the whole thing, but I may fail.

I write this stuff in character, you know. I'm not as snide in person. It's nice of him to offer the advice, and it's not like I've had to pay for it.

He's run it through August, but I shall be doing it in September. Annoyingly, there's only 30 days in September, so I'll be finishing on October 1st.

And as a little treat to get you in the mood for all things bloggish, what's the connection between the mite harvestman and plate tectonics?

Zooillogix tells you here. You can also read the original piece in the Science Times, but you have to register, and as we all know that's an insuperable barrier to the attention deficit specialists who use the Internet. Yes I'm talking about you. Hey, over here! You can eat that later. Read this, you might learn something interesting. No, you will learn something interesting.

You can make them drink, you just have to hold their heads under long enough.

The mite harvestman is a species of arachnid (spiders, scorpions, ticks and mites), which is found all over the world, but only in small areas. Because it doesn't spread geographically of its own accord, it's only global because of continental drift.

Look at the map of today's world on the blog. See the dots for the pettalidae species. They're in South America, southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand. What a large dispersal for a species which habitually never makes it far on its own.

Now compare it with Gondwana on the map of Pangea (drawn decades ago, I should emphasise). See how close together the dots are. Brings a tear to your eye, doesn't it? Now tell me you can read my fucking palm. Go on, I dare you.

More about spiders and evolution here and here.

My progress in the 31 day challenge, meanwhile, is summarised here.