wordpress can’t count: my 2000th blog posting

I was all exited about my 2000th post, because the dashboard is showing:

So I decided to tabulate my entries by number, and discovered that I really have 2261 (well, 2262 now) blog entries. This is the real story:

Post #	Title	Date
1	is this thing on, eh?	(2003/06/04)
2	Happy Birthday	(2003/06/04)
3	mmm	(2003/06/05)
4	A century later, worse economy	(2003/06/05)
5	Christian Anderson Smith, where were you in our hour of need?	(2003/06/06)
6	fishepiphany	(2003/06/07)
7	“What a Life!” lives!	(2003/06/08)
8	pinholes	(2003/06/09)
9	they don’t make ‘em like they used to	(2003/06/12)
10	what’s this ear?	(2003/06/19)
16	the wisdom of chairman ralph	(2003/07/08)
20	Phew …	(2003/07/29)
30	Canada supporting copy-controlled CDs	(2003/10/09)
32	so long, emusic	(2003/11/05)
40	how the blog got its name	(2003/11/24)
50	do me a favour	(2003/12/01)
60	malicious deomnibusation of maternal relative’s maternal relative strictly forbidden	(2003/12/09)
64	DNX-1000 Hardware /dev/null Accelerator	(2003/12/10)
70	Enoch, the Money Mart ad guy	(2003/12/15)
80	Mozilla Mail Went Nuts	(2003/12/21)
90	A helpful error message	(2003/12/31)
100	very small, but not cheap	(2004/01/06)
128	Attack of the Dodgy Duracells	(2004/02/03)
200	first groundhog	(2004/04/03)
250	freecache doesn’t	(2004/06/13)
256	Getting (Not Very) Political	(2004/06/23)
300	UofT Solar Car	(2004/08/13)
400	let’s get confused	(2004/10/13)
500	Good Activism Guide, from an unexpected source	(2004/12/07)
512	and this makes news in Scotland: Krankie hurt in beanstalk tumble	(2004/12/15)
600	The Passing of The Grammarian	(2005/02/22)
700	get yer fives on!	(2005/05/05)
750	Lego, ergo sum	(2005/06/05)
800	StimpyFest: the time is now	(2005/07/14)
900	no cheers for VIA Rail	(2005/09/27)
1000	Meet Mr Random	(2005/12/26)
1024	my letter to etymotic	(2006/01/24)
1100	1656 days from PR application to Canadian Citizenship	(2006/03/25)
1200	View from the nacelle of a 2.3MW wind turbine	(2006/05/22)
1250	old taters	(2006/06/18)
1300	when chitin isn’t enough	(2006/07/20)
1400	confused	(2006/10/03)
1500	alan_walsh-carter_arter_blues.mp3	(2006/12/21)
1600	all atwitter	(2007/03/06)
1700	messing with cars makes you bad at spelling	(2007/04/26)
1750	curious_orange-roncesvalles.jpg	(2007/06/01)
1800	take your …	(2007/07/21)
1900	serene detachment	(2007/09/20)
2000	not very walkable here	(2007/12/13)
2048	recursive headline	(2008/01/22)
2100	glacial	(2008/02/25)
2200	the most hateful coining in the language	(2008/05/05)
2250	outlook_gone_all_big	(2008/06/02)
2261	wind turbine data – we are generating!	(2008/06/13)

The numbering seems to have gone sideways in the last 1000 entries; entry #1000 is, as they say, what it is.