TITLE: An Unexpected Accolade
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: February 03, 2005  5:55 AM
DESC: Knowing and Doing has won its first award!  I'm under no illusion of grandeur, but still am honored.
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Following
<A HREF="http://jtauber.com/blog/2005/01/29/jtauber,_jtauberer,_jtauberest">
   James Tauber's lead</A>,
I went
<A HREF="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=eugene+wallingford">
   vanity surfing</A>
at Technorati and found a pleasant surprise:  One of
my readers,
<!A HREF="http://www.mycgiserver.com/~gpiancastelli/blog/">
   Giulio Piancastelli</A>,
proclaimed Knowing and Doing to be his
<A HREF="http://www.mycgiserver.com/~gpiancastelli/blog/archives/000100.html">
   Weblog of the Year for 2004</A>.
I'm honored that Giulio would single this blog out
in such a way.  It's humbling to know that readers
find something valuable here.  I may not
<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2004-11.html#e2004-11-11T17_17_33.htm">
   leave listeners inexplicably grinning like idiots</A>,
but maybe I am serving the needs of actual readers.
What a nice way to end my day.  Thanks, Giulio.
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