Starting immediately, I’m removing the Sitemeter statistics from the sidebar. The information was only kind of helpful, but digging around today I noticed that at some point Sitemeter has begun sending out tracking cookies along with the bit of code required. The tracking cookie is fairly low-risk, it tracks some of the sites you go to on the Internet, but it is something that needs to be made known, and was pushed out without my knowledge or permission, which is very wrong.
Apologies to the two or three of you that looked at the statistics, I may have other publicly-available stats at some point. No tracking cookies required. You can get more info here if you wish.