Over the last year, Street Tech has grown. We've gone from a little two person operation to...well...a big two person operation (with lots of help, hard work, and good humor from an impressive posse of contributors). It's been intense and fun. To all of our readers--especially those who've written to give us suggestions, tell us when we were full of crap, and praise us when we got it right--we shout out a big "gabba gabba hey!"

Before we move forward, we thought we'd look back at some of the distance we've covered so far. Since Street Tech's mission is to "rant about the stuff that sucks and rave about what doesn't," we wanted to offer a handy chart of the best and worst of what we've reviewed since launching with a bang last July 4th.

OK, the above is actually just a lame-o excuse to post a summary piece and leave it up for a week so we can take a break and re-group. Gareth is off on a fun-filled pleasure trip to San Francisco. (If you're from the IRS, Gareth meant to say: "A hard-core business trip to San Francisco.") Peter is up to his eyeballs in alligators doing software design for the satellite networking company that he calls "the day job." We're beat.

There are also some cool deals in the works for our little website that could. We'll be making several announcements in the next month or so. One thing we can tell you about now is that the Baltimore Sun will be running a column of excerpts from Street Tech every Monday in their "Plugged In" section. These will be boiled down from items first published here and the summaries will wrap up with a "For the complete review and more, see..." This should definitely help drive more traffic to the site and give our easy-on-the-B.S. approach to hardware reviewing greater reach. We're also working on some site re-design and planning on upgrading Shop Talk, our conferencing area, to WebBoard 3.0 in the near future.

So again, thanks for all of your help and support, and stay tuned for more chipheaded fun and excitement. In the meantime, check out "Street Tech's Greatest Hits" while Gareth serenades you with his rousing punk renditions of "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "California Dreaming/California Uber Alles."

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