Why Links are Good Things

I got an interesting email this morning. An old shipmate from my tour in Jubail, Saudi Arabia dropped me a line to ask if I was me. I hadn't heard from him since about 1993, and was really happy to get back in touch.
I owe this renewed contact to blogging, and specifically to The Yankee Sailor. It would appear that Yankee Sailor is on deployment with my old shipmate, since the hit on my blog came from this post about being at sea again. Small world, isn't it?