As you all know I am a horrible speller. So I installed a spell checker on my blog to help me. Now I just have to remember to use it!

Just a quick note about a new record stat. Yesterday was the highest traffic ever on this site. I had 474 unique visitors! The average number of unique visitors per day over the last 30 days is 144.

I know it has been a while since I reported the last record being something like 78 in one day but I have had loads more traffic in the last two months and I was waiting to see how it would level out before posting more stat info. Anyway I was pretty excited to see that number grow throughout the day yesterday.

Here are a few quick stats for the last 30 days:

As you probably know, I occasionally send photos to the chattanoogan.com and John is nice enough to use most of them. I am quite pleased to see them on the site though. So I must gloat. I have made it to the front page again today with a night shot of the Market Street Bridge. Click here (or on the thumbnail) to see a full size screenshot.

Here is another that made it last month. Scott had a link to it but I must have been lazy that week. Click here (or on the thumbnail) to see a full size screenshot.

It has been a rough week for me and the internet. First the troubles with my hosting outages and now Comcast. It seems there was significant outage last night in our neighborhood.

Erin was checking some things on the internet and all the sudden it stopped working. I tried all the necessary things within our realm of control to get it working again…recycling the router, then the modem and the router, then I plugged directly into the modem with a cable and nothing so I called Comcast. We were the only ones who had reported being without service. They ran a test on the modems in our area and sure enough there were 11 people without internet service on our road and an adjacent road. Comcast said they would set up an appointment with a tech to come out on Saturday. He also said that if there was a “significant” number of people reporting it they would consider it an outage and come out and look into it.

About 2 hours later…it was up and running. There must have been some other people who were as hacked off as I was about not being able to check my email :) Silly how addicted to these forms of communication we are getting isn’t it?

I should give some eProps to my buddy Scott for helping me get things running on my new server, figuring out wordpress, getting all my posts imported, getting some useful plugins and so on. I am deeply indebted to him for all his help.

Even though he has begun stealing photo business from me :p