Loosely related to Matt Cutts’s blog post, these points:
#2. Refer to this page for the best info on Google updates/refreshes.
#3. I will ring you next January (end of) when the public Google PageRank database is updated/refreshed. [I expect Midas Oracle to come up as a 5/10, but if that's 6/10, I'll happily take it, of course.]
#4. Use this Google PageRank checker —it’s the best.