Update:
Well after a bit more work looking through the logs and some help from Dare, the author of RSS Bandit I think we have it figured out. It seems that if you leave RSS Bandit open with the view of my blog, every time the RSS feed gets fetched RSS bandit rerenders the page containing all of the entries. If you've never deleted any of my entries (which I should be happy about) then the page rerenders every article and pings my page to let me know. Unfortunatly for me this person has all 200+ articles and has the feed refresh at 30 minute intervals. So my web stats show a hit for the RSS page followed immediatly by 200 pings for each article. This caused 2400+ hits to my site today. The next closest IP address managed 115 (which is still quite high). Looks like I'm going to have to reconsider how I measure my stats.

So here's some useful information for you. The web site is a hobby, and because I value my job I don't edit it at work. So set your RSS readers to pick up once a day around midnight (PST) and you will get all the updates and my stats won't suffer.

Previous Entry:
Looking through my site stats I see a huge number of hits from a blog reader at 84.92.148.236 which resolves to aemitchell.plus.com. If this is you can you drop me an email and let me know what reader you are using so we can work out the issue. Thanks.