Thankyou

A huge thankyou to my guest bloggers – Sean of Pol:Spy; James Joyner, OTB; Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom; Angry in the Great White North, aka “Danger Guy”; and my good friend and sysadmin “R”.
I’ve not had time to catch up on all their contributions here, but I see by the long comments threads that the boys kept things hopping, and that there were a few of you who were dismayed that they weren’t testosterone enhanced versions of me.
Well, that was the point of the exercise. There are a few others – I owe a great deal to James and Jeff for sending readers this way during the early days of SDA. They represent diametrically opposed approaches to blogging, and have influenced my “style” here a great deal, as has “R”, from the good old days on Usenet. (I wish he had had time to post more often – he had instructions to scare the bejesus out of you.) Sean is one of my favourite, smartest Canadian bloggers and went above and beyond in keeping the site refreshed. I was reminded of my invitation to guest at Wizbang in the earliest days of SDA, and decided I should include someone fairly new (and very promising) – so Angry got the call.
All in all, a very successful experiment – traffic actually rose a little. The sitemeter doesn’t lie.
I have a lot of deadline work coming up this week, and things will be slow here for a few days, so I encourage you to help me “thank” them by adding them to your regular reading.