*In case you were wondering what happened to HBO agitator Spencer ... he appeared before the Idaho Supreme Court this morning to argue his appeal of a case involving a common driveway he wants to construct on two adjoining properties in Hayden (second item) here.

*You can read the obituary for Editor Steve Smith's father, Solomon, here. Editor Smith reports he'll be returning to work and his blog on Monday here.

*The final Huckleberries Online blog numbers for 2007 are: 2,248,474 page-views and 1,319,919 unique views. Sportslink, which will shatter those numbers in 2008, finished second among SR blogs with 1,234,426 page-views and 795,162 unique views. However, Sportslink has been almost doubling HBO numbers daily since it transformed into a Blog Central for all SR sports bloggers during the fall.

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