Thanks to the top referrers for January:

Bloggies 2006
Rockson
Hemlock
Mr Brown
Ambient Irony
Fumier
ESWN
The Peking Duck

Thank you to everyone else who also linked and visited.

As usual, some site statistics for February:

* 26,061 unique visitors made 56,643 unique visits, reading a total of 146,021 pages,and drawing 13.76 GB of bandwidth.
* This equals 2,023 visitors per day reading 5,215 pages each day. In other words each visitor reads 2.57 pages on average. Each visitor returned on average 2.2 times during the month.
* 308 subscribe to this site's feed via Bloglines and 364 via Feedburner.
* 59.6% of you use IE, 22% Firefox, 3.2% Safari, 3.2% Mozilla, 1.5% Opera and 2% Netscape to browse this site. 82% of you use Windows, 5.5% Mac, 1.3% Linux.
* 15.4% of visits were via search engines, of which Google was 62.5% and Yahoo 20% (and something called Tiscali was 10%). The top search phrases included "Nancy Kissel", "Simon World" (is the URL that hard to remember?), and bizarrely "Klara Smetanova", along with "Chinese New Year wishes" (Kung Hei Fat Choi).
* The most visited individual page was "Tiananmen Square - June 4th, 1989", which was my piece last year commemerating that event and which seems to have made the front page of Google's image search under that topic. Don't underestimate the power of Google.