well, I'm going to download all the posts tonight. I'll run the comment counts first, that's fairly straightforward, but if I get really ambitious (or shall we say unambitious insofar as I'm screwing around with this during work) I'll look into doing a word count at some point.

but I think I'll just stick to the posts for the word counting. Posts with more than n comments appear to lose the comments even from the html source, so i'd have to do a lot more downloading if we were to try to get word counts on the comments.