My, my. Isn't this interesting?

As most of you are probably aware, we use a counter on our blog - StatCounter - and their little program does a really nice job. It tells us how many people have visited the site on any given day; whether they are a first time, or returning, visitor; how long they stayed; where they came from, along with some other interesting informational tidbits.

Among those other informational tid bits are the following items:

Your IP address;
Your computer host;
Your ISP.

Now, normally, I ignore that information, as I'm not quite that geeky, but our blog had a visitor today (Aug. 8th), who actually stopped by twice. Once at 12:29 PM, and again at 12:31 PM local time, to check out the post I did about the man who was killed by a horse (yes, that one). Ordinarily, I wouldn't give a whit which post a particular individual was checking out, but for this visitor? You could say I am intrigued. Why?

Because of the following information.
IP address = 156.74.250.7 (meaningless to most of you, I know. Bear with me, ok?)
Computer Host = global.ci.seattle.wa.us
ISP = City of Seattle

Now, as far as I know, only City of Seattle employees have access to that ISP, and that brings to mind some questions, and one assumption. The assumption is that this City employee was using his (generic form of the word) tax payer funded computer during lunch to surf the web, which I really don't have a problem with, to be honest.

The questions I have are, has this emplyee been tasked to search for entries regarding the subject at hand, and if so, why? Is there going to be a City Ordinance banning such practices? That would be my hope.

Or, is this City of Seattle employee a closet pervert, who is using tax payer funded City computers to search for porn?

I'd like some answers, Mr./Ms. City of Seattle employee. Just why were you interested in that particular subject, which you searched for on Google? If it was for an honest reason, please leave your answers in the comment section.

If your interest was not honest ... well, I wonder what your supervisor, or the Mayor, would think of your pursuits. Your IP address, which is a unique identifier of the computer you used, is now public information, and could be used to track you down.