Today, I went on Blog Explosion and Blog Soldiers to get an idea of which of them has a better traffic generating ratio.

In my opinion Blog Soldiers has a better ratio. It seems that Blog Explosion is running at a 4:1 ratio. Meaning for every four blogs you look at BE sends one hit your way. Whilst Blog Soldiers seems to be closer to a 1:1 ratio. If I look at twenty blogs they'll send 20 hits my way.

I tried to get on Blog Mad. It appears to be soley by invite only. I hear that they have a 1:1 ratio. Oh, well I suppose I will have to wait until they open the gates and go completely public.

WALKING LOG

STEPS....10157
MILES....2.24
CALORIES BURNED....304

This weekend I decided to pop in a Leslie Sansone video and see how it went while measuring my steps along side my trusty Omron pedometer. The DVD I tried out was her 3 Mile Walk.

Since, I know that no one is really reading this log religiously, I'll add that I have never walked 3 miles in a day since I started logging my steps. I thought that trying this tape would give me an idea of the possible limitations of my pedometer.

What I soon learned was that the pedometer did a lousy job measuring my steps when it was clipped to my belt loop. In total it measured only about 5 thousand steps. Then after resting a bit I decided to try her 2 Mile Walk with the pedometer placed in my pants pocket. The steps measured went well over what they did with the 3 Mile Walk. The 3 Mile Walk lasted 49 minutes, while the 2 Mile Walk lasted 30 minutes.

In conclusion with my unscientific study I have learned that the best place to keep my pedometer is in my pants pocket. It should be noted that I always keep my pedometer in my pants pocket. But today I was just a little curious as to which location would garner the best reading, my pants pocket or the belt loop.