9K

9K concurrent residents probably isn't as much news as 10K would be, but it's probably worth a mention.

At Sat Jul 30 19:17:39 SLT 2006 we passed 9K residents in-world.
At Sat Jul 30 19:57:15 SLT 2006 we peaked at 9,613 residents for about 3 minutes.
At Sat Jul 30 20:02:48 SLT 2006 we dipped below 9K again.

That's the first time we topped 9,000 residents, and we went well past that yesterday.

(EDIT: Converted times from UTC to SLT to avoid confusion)