Is there anywhere for me to easily guage my readership? I know what I am getting (as long as my trends site is working) but I don't know how this compares to other sites. Even a basic scale of some sort... so many a day/week/month is average, so on and so forth.

Any suggestions?

You can find the download for ATP at http://atp.cx/?a=downloads. There is both the stand-alone ATP code at version 7.2 and a port of ATP to PostNuke (ATP becomes a module for the PostNuke CMS system). David used to be quite active in supporting ATP on his forums but it's not clear what the current status of ATP development is.

ATP is a PHP script that can be used with or without a MySQL database (much faster with MySQL). I have it running here.

Click here for an audio interview with David Rees (Get Your War On) by blogger Christopher Lydon. Very interesting interview (Rees even reads some of his comics outloud).