Wow, I was just shutting down the laptop for the week, looked at the calendar and realized it was the third anniversary of my first post.

It’s been a pretty wild ride when I think back on it. I started out kind of wishy-washy, not sure whether to use my “corporate voice” or my real voice. Ultimately, I settled on the latter, for good or ill.

I started out as an outsider, then hit it big for a while, then got bored and burned out, then decided to give it another go with a few changes in focus and format.

Now we’re back to a respectable Alexa ranking of 150,000, have about 1,100 RSS subscribers, and average about 40,000 unique visitors per month. (Sure, a lot of them are coming to see pictures like these, but they all count.)

So I’m glad that I’ve been able to stick with it. I feel like I’ve gone through a couple generations of blogging relationships, starting out with Steve and Jeremy and Shel and Todd D., and now interacting more with Geoff and Rich and Ike and Cam. There have been a few true blue types like Kevin and Kami and Alice and Bill and Todd A., too. I count all of you, and others out there, as good friends.

Next week (programmers willing), we expect to launch a full redesign for Spin Thicket. Before too long, you’ll see that site dwarf anything that Media Orchard has achieved. So I think the fun is just beginning.

Stay tuned.

This picture really does it for me — I mean, sums it up, that is.

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