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I manage a team of professional technical consultants for a Fortune 100 company. I like clever uses of technology whether it's in a data center or the kitchen of my house.

Dave's social experiment

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Dave writes a note about leaving the barn door open on scripting.com on purpose. When Phil says it's “weird” having a site on Scripting News, Dave asks “why?” I'll try to answer from my perspective.

Dave, I've always categorized scripting.com as a personal site of yours, not a general news and information site. To have a site on the scripting.com domain would be akin to you saying “come and be a Scripting fellow” much like Harvard has done with you. While some have sought your respect, you always require it to be earned and not given. To be “given” a scripting.com site seems oddly out of Dave-character.

To this end, I propose that you create a Scripting fellowship. Gin up an essay form for submissions and cull the group for the best submissions. Pick 5-ish “fellows” and allow them to create a Manila site off scripting.com, but with a mandate that the content explores a central theme: RSS, scripting, user/Internet interaction, whatever the case may be.

I'd be thrilled to read it and even more so to apply.

Update: Dave linked to this post–thanks! I'd like to suggest that we give Dave some ideas, so I started this discussion group.

Server-move-says-what?

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So what's the deal with the new server? Well, this weblog and a few more domains have moved to their own server on dedicated bandwith. Our old host was more than kind — we were on his server for free for years and he never complained. I felt bad when last month we transferred nearly 1.5 GB of traffic and we were only the fifth or sixth highest.

Hoping to have my old friend avoid a needless reprimand from his provider, I moved this site on Friday night. Yum. More details over here.

Weekend Summary

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Weekend Summary:

Friday night was my wife's ad agency's office party. Every year, Brent Atterberry (nicest guy in the biz) invites the staff to dinner at a local restaurant to say thanks for the hard work. Dinner and company was fabulous–I had a filet mingon to die for.

Saturday was perfect–wake up late, drink coffee and read the local paper, then lunch–all with my wife. I don't usually get to spend slow mornings with Tammy so I savor every moment. We spent the afternoon decorating our Christmas tree, then we went out for the evening on a date, something that's still fun after 8 years together.

Sunday was easy, too. Brunch at Agrario, then work in the basement amassing a pile of stuff to donate to a local charity. We've both realized we have too much stuff we hold on to, so it's off to a better home. I spent the evening hours (up until now) working on a second computer for my side business. Worst part: system needed a bios update to accept a new DIMM. Can't run Win2K server on 64MB, no matter how hard you try… :>

My home server is dead.

Radio

My “rhs” finally died. I updated the story page with some short notes about why and an interesting side note: “Radio” and MacOS X 10.3's fast user switching. Radio behaves fine in that environment, still picking up news, responding to local and remote web requests, downloading attachements, everything.

This doesn't mean that I don't have a backup plan. It's time to retrieve the G3/300 Beige box and make it the home server.

Johnny Carson and Adam's quote of the day

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Adam's quote of the day:

qotd december 5. Johnny Carson: “I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.” [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

I'm a huge Johnny Carson fan. I grew up begging to stay up late to watch the Tonight Show before Jay Leno destroyed it. Mr. Carson (yes, he deserves the Mr.) always treated the audience with a level of class that Jay doesn't. Note to Jay: you don't have to insult my intelligence or dive low to get a laugh. Watch some Tonight Show reruns for examples.

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How to smell like a laundromat. Among the featured designs at the National Design Triennial was the Demeter Fragrance Library. The company, run by Christophers Brosius and Gable, puts out perfumes, lotions, soaps, candles, and body gels with scents like Creme Brulee, Wet Garden, Funeral Home, Dirt, and Sugar Cookie. According to this article in Happi, the New Zealand fragrance was developed for the Lord of the Rings movie and Demeter's odd scents might have other…… [kottke.org]