Talking Squid‘s server was becoming gummed up with starchy old stats so it’s time to clear the database. For the record, the Squid has received a total of 1,590,210 hits of which 139,308 are unique. This is about to be reset to zero. (Actually, instead of wiping the database I trimmed it by 1.1M records using [...]

Some time recently Talking Squid took its millionth hit. I missed the exact day (today we’re on 1,130,616 with 106,892 unique hits). This means that Talking Squid has probably had two orders of magnitude more readers than all my stories put together. (Sigh.)