Every geek with a website dreams of one day getting Slashdotted. Tonight that dream was fulfilled (sort of) thanks to this comment which links to my tour of the Purdue particle accelerator. When I first saw Slashdot in my referrer list, my hands started shaking and I got more excited than any other time in recent memory— it's sad, I know. For the past hour or so I've been joyously watching my hit counter tick up, and up, and up.
Amazing. From just that one offhand comment I'm seeing more traffic than I had in the past year or more.
Update: here is the graph showing the spike of hits. It's certainly not very big by Slashdot standards, but it's still quite impressive.
