Make Your Blog Visible To Search Engines: Title Length

So continuing right along with this blog optimization thread, I was looking over my SEO blog and my Fun/Jokes blog and I found myself wondering if title length is important to SEO? In my particular case, is it important to Google? I did some research and checked out a few forums. The most relevant thread I found agrees that all titles should be around 10-12 words, include keywords, and make sense.

I know that many of you have a different way of writing titles on your blogs. Please share your techniques with us.