It looks obvious

Give me a brake Stowe, you have more interesting things to write about then your technorati rank; you can’t make lamer excuse then the one you made here:

have gotten a lot of negative vibes about this ‘Starting From Zero’ series, and general misunderstanding: I am not doing it to solicit links. I am simply reporting the first 90 days of the life of my new blog, using Technorati rank as a convenient indicator of "progress" of some undefined sort. Period. [Honestly, I can't wait for it to be over.]

Allow me to suggest that if you are only doing this to report the progress of your blog, once a month report will suffice. And if it such a burden as you says don’t worry, you can quit and we will not hold it against you, really.

And the link is on me, it will probably push you few notches ahead in the irrelevant ranking.