Weblog Awards

The 2004 Web Log Awards are up, voting has begun, and I'm pleased and surprised to note that Mudville is a nominee in the Best of the Top 100 Blogs category. Rules and instructions for voting can be found at the link.

Cool - some will note I requested not to be included in the Military Blogs category, in fact I swapped a couple of polite emails to that effect with Kevin Aylward, who understood my position in the matter completely. To be nominated in another category is a true honor, I salute any who suggested this site for such recognition and certainly thank Kevin for putting me in some very prestigious company.

It's been a great year for blogs - I don't need to reiterate that here - and it has truly been a pleasure to be a part of it. I'm humbled, amazed, and ever grateful to the folks who stop by here, leave a comment, link something I've written, or simply "ghost" in and out again. If my small voice from Iraq has reinforced your faith that America is on track and doing the right thing then I'm accomplishing the second most important mission I'm on here.

Finally - a long distance hug to the Mrs., who once told me that I should add a site meter to Mudville because she thought people might be reading it, and who in many more ways now makes this site not just possible, but better.

Love you much - miss you more.

UPDATE: Seems the left blogs are doing the expected...Cheating and of course they're proud of it.
Hat tip to LGF.