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Inside Huckleberries — 9/5/06

Sam The Intern and Lovely Kat tied the knot Saturday, Aug. 26, while I was on vacation/Jesse Tinsley photo.

*I feared that I'd miss the 100,000 page-view mark for August for the first time since April 2005 because I had two weeks of vacation. Not to worry. Blogmeister KenP's stint as backup blogger enabled HBO to finish with 122,392 PVs for the month. How cool is that?

*In the category of "It's A Small World Isn't It," North Idaho guv's aide Luke Malek confirmed today that his younger brother, John, indeed, is the John Malek who is part of the study abroad class in Rome, Italy, with my daughter, Amy Dearest.

*UI students Scott Falconer and J.R. Pelkola have created a travel Web site that has a wealth of information for those who want to get off the beaten path and find out-of-the-way, quirky places to eat, sleep or cliff jump in almost every part of the world here.

*Blogmeister Ken Sands informs HBO that the SR online product is one of the four finalists for the 7th annual Online General Excellence Journalism Awards (medium division, 100,000-500,000). Others are: New West, http://www.newwest.net, Orlando Sentinel http://www.orlandosentinel.com, and Roanoke.com, http://www.roanoke.com. We won the top prize last year.

*As you can see, I'm back after a week's vacation. I posted two terrific comments that I saw last week. One from Mommy Dearest. The other, a restaurant review by Flippy Floppy. I'll be playing catchup most of the day. Thanks for your continuing interest in this blog. I'm looking forward to a terrific fall together.



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.