Thanks for your attention and comments the last months! Hope you will enjoy the next months …
I started my blog in November 2007. Now, May 2009 was the first month with more than 5 000 users (and even over 6000 -> 6080).
The monthly statistics looks a bit like the physical phenomena called ‘Maker-fringes’:
Stats:

Maker-fringes:

In my diploma thesis 2 years ago I studied this phenomena in detail.
BTW: this fancy 😉 picture I got with my performant Java genvlin plotter.