How many times have YOU thought, hey, why not have a parade?

I guess the throng over at Riverbed has that thought more often than the rest of us, as even the drizzly rain didnt stop a police escorted gang of orange t-shirt clad, arm-pumping revellers trekking from their outgrown old digs to their new space in the Rincon neighborhood of SoMa.

The cause for celebration? Being announced the Best-Performing IPO of 2006, for starters, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Mayor Newsom.

Well, it’s nice to see a SF technology company taking the lead and forging their own path, although I find it ironic that a company touted as ‘smoothing the flow of data traffic’ should choose to disrupt SF traffic by their against-the-flow shuffle east-bound on Howard Street.