I suspect that only internet geeks of a certain persuasion, like myself, would either a) notice this or b) find it interesting, but I am about to indulge in the online equivalent of trainspotting.

The BBC News and Sport websites are only a few articles away from ticking over to 7000000.

If you look at the URL of any BBC article, it contains a seven-digit number which in essence ticks up sequentially whenever a journalist fires up a new one.

The Northern Rock article dominating the news front page is number 6999615. Over on the sport front page, a Muttiah Muralitharan article on the ticker is 6999629.

By tomorrow late morning or afternoon, unless the numbering system used in CPS (the content management system news and sport employ) resets to some other figure, we should hit 7000000.

But what will article number 7000000 feature? I reckon the odds would look a bit like this:

5/1 - Northern Rock
6/1 - Liberal Democrats
7/1 - Gordon Brown
8/1 - Football
10/1 - Cricket
10/1 - Rugby
12/1 - George W. Bush
18/1 - Foot-and-mouth
25/1 - Weather or climate change
33/1 - McLaren
50/1 - Amy Winehouse
66/1 - Facebook
100/1 - William Hague
10,000/1 - Dayorama

We shall see. Wake up tomorrow morning and start checking URLs! Oh go on. It'll be fun. Fine... I'll have all the fun then.