Catching up on my reading tonight and I ended up reading this post from end to end. It's a fairly interesting article, and takes a very long road to rehash the old adages of "if at first you don't succeed" and "practice makes perfect" set against a background of nerdly delights and the occasional introspective advisement. However, the form and prose of the post is blogging at it's finest. Just the perfect number of visual aids, with a plethora of interesting and well-sourced links -- this post is a marvel just from a writing standpoint. A blogging mini-opus. Kudos.