Egostroking, sort of

The Babu intended to do the usual "huzzah, hallelujah" thing when visitors to Kitabkhana crossed a certain number.
The problem here is that he's a) numerically illiterate and b) technically challenged.
So while he intended to wave the flags and hire marching bands when Kk crossed 10,000 visitors, the truth is... he forgot to keep count.
He has no idea how many people dropped by Kk between March 2003, when the blog kicked off, and January 2004, because he didn't include a counter. (Yeah, yeah, the hallmark of an amateur blogger!)
And he managed to deactivate the Sitemeter thingie for two months somewhere around May-June 2004, so those stats are missing.
And most people who get to this site after a Google search are searching for things like "Rushdie Padma Lakshmi wedding" and "book quiz". Some perverts are here because they were looking for "harami+lusty", which led them to items by Amitava Kumar (an excerpt from a piece on Hindutva hatespeak) and an article on James Joyce's letters to his wife. One mystified the hell out of the Babu by searching for "godawful killer dogs". This is truly weird because the Babu doesn't remember ever blogging anything about godawful killer dogs, though now he might. (He can take a hint.)
Allasame, the blog crossed 14,000 visits--not page views, it apparently has 21,000 page views, whatever that means--between January and August. Not counting May and June and some of July, because, er, they haven't been counted.
Most of the people who drop by Kitabkhana seem to stay for a while, and the Babu's especially glad to see that many who come by wander off and browse either the brilliant blogs listed in the sidebar or the author websites listed there.
So that's the report. I still don't know how many people have dropped by at Kk over the last year; I have no idea why I'm getting a LOT of referrals from a casino site based in Florida; and I have no clear visitor profile, geekspeak for "I have no idea why anyone but the Babu would waste its time out here".
But thanks for coming by, and thanks for hanging out here when you do. Bookmark the page. Tell your friends. Before I manage to bugger up the counter and my statistics as I will doubtless succeed in doing again.