Happy Anniversary!

That's right, fellow Optimates and friends, today marks the one-year anniversary of our foray into the blogosphere. At about noon on Nov. 16, 2005, I put up this badly formatted post, and followed it with this only slightly better one a few hours later. We've come a long way!

For the statistically curious, this post - entered right before the noon deadline - is the 416th since our creation. That comes out to about 1.14 posts per day over our blog's lifetime. Not a bad average, considering all of our careers! Feel free to chime in with a comment about your favorite or least favorite Optimates post in our first year, which subjects we handled well or poorly, or just any old thing about the blog.

Here's to another successful year!