Visitors Spike
Looks like yesterday the blog part of the portal experienced an almost threefold increase in the number of daily visits exceeding 2,400 visitors and, for the first time ever, bringing the total sliding number of unique monthly blog visits to more than 18,000:

Something happened on that day. The number of spam comments and trackbacks detected by Akismet plugin was the same as usual so spammers are ruled out.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -
February 10th, 2010 at 12:48 am
Well Jeff Attwood (http://twitter.com/codinghorror) Tweeted about your blog. He has 27,000 followers and maybe a few, myself included, wanted to have a look.
February 10th, 2010 at 7:49 am
Hope his followers continue looking at my blog! This is an example of how one tweet can make a difference
February 10th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
That’s because we appreciate you a lot!