Before I get to the numbers for September, a few important announcements.

1. With the help of my good buddy Jim, I have registered and steup the website http://www.simonworld.net as a secondary adress for this blog. Both sites will have exactly the same information and format, and either can be read, linked, or referenced in the usual manner. There is no need to adjust your bookmarks or links, but this should make it easier for those who find the .mu.nu domain too difficult to deal with while providing a potential backup site...just in case.

2. I have had the pleasure of using Phin from apothegm design to do some maintenance work around the site. The response was quick, the cost modest and the results perfect. If you need any site work or design help, give 'em a call.

3. Thanks to the top referrers for September:

Rockson
Hemlock
Mr Brown
Seelai
Cowboy Caleb
Danwei
Peking Duck
ESWN

Thank you to everyone else who also linked and visited.

For those interested, some stats for September:

* 28,178 unique visitors made 61,508 unique visits, reading a total of 166,466 pages,and drawing 13.23 GB of bandwidth.
* This equals 2,050 visitors per day reading 5,548 pages each day. In other words each visitor reads 2.7 pages on average. Each visitor returned on average 2.18 times during the month.
* 1,959 visited this site via their favourites/bookmarks. 217 subscribe via Bloglines and 178 via Feedburner.
* 65.6% of you use IE, 16.2% Firefox, 3.1% Safari, 1.4% Mozilla, 1.3% Opera and 1% Netscape to browse this site. 82.4% of you use Windows, 5.6% Mac, 1.1% Linux.
* 15.1% of visits were via search engines, of which Google was 74.4% and Yahoo 17.6%. The top search phrases were "Nancy Kissel", "Robert Kissel", "Simon World" (still no. 1 for that one!) and "Icered".
* The most visited individual page remains the "Nancy Kissel trial archive".