Dear Friends,

I found some time to do some writing for Kibbles & Bytes while I was out in San Francisco. I have definitely become acclimated to tropical weather although a couple of days this week it was warmer in Vermont than it was in Key West. But out here by the Bay on the West Coast it was chilly and in the 50’s. My neighbor has sent me pictures of the daffodils around my house on Prickly Mountain so when you read this, Grace and I and the three pups should be cruising up I-95 heading for the Green Mountains.

I was out in the hall chatting with my friend Kevin Langdon, who is the Executive Director of the Apple Specialist Marketing Coop as well as the owner of Cry Wolf, a first class Apple Specialist out in San Diego. Kevin and I have known each other a long time and we got to reminiscing about the old days. He reminded me that in one of my very first issues of Kibbles & Bytes that I talked about taking my Newton MessagePad on vacation. So, I thought it might be a good idea to give a little more history of Kibbles & Bytes. In the early days of Small Dog Electronics we would fax out a list of our inventory a couple times each week to a small list of customers. We would also be a part of Adam and Tonya Engst’s Tidbits newsletter that was called DealBits. Tidbits decided to drop DealBits and well, faxing was getting old so we launched our newsletter, which, if you look at our archives was just an email list of our price list. Actually, that price list is still a link on our home page. Soon, we started adding content and now, 20 years later and nearly 1000 (!!!) weekly issues later, Kibbles & Bytes is read by at least 25,000 subscribers.