To anyone who logs on to my blog and finds that it now wants to put a cookie on your computer: don't panic. I got curious about how many people actually read this thing, so I decided to install a hit counter. So I went here and signed up for this service. As far as I can tell, it's a completely legitimate business that offers some hit counters as a freebie to encourage people with corporate Web sites to sign up for the more advanced paid version. If you trust the privacy policy, it's completely harmless.

There's a story about why I suddenly, out of the blue, got curious about this, but now's not the time. I'll try to remember to write about it later.