lines of code?

From: Digital Puer (digital_puer_at_hotjail.comet)
Date: 11/29/03 

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:45:54 -0800

I have two questions about the metric of 'lines of code':

1. How do you actually count this? On a Unix box, I can run 'wc -l'
to get the lines, but of course this includes comments and blank lines.

2. What is a fair number of lines of code in a one-man project that
would show decent proficiency (i.e. for a job interview)?
5000? 10,000? 100,000?

Thanks for any info.