Where have all the visitors gone?

To any "number of visitors to my blog" fans (er, that will be you M!), it seems that sitemeter, the good people who painstakingly count you all, are having some server issues. Apparantly we are being counted, but stealthfully.
I am sad to see how bereft I feel without it silently logging any passing web travellers and cannot speculate who was that mysterious reader from Ontario, why they googled what they did and how surprised they must have been when they got my site?
Ah the powers of modern technology, and how infuriating when we are reminded who's in charge!