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		<outline text="DaveNet: &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2001/08/31/microsoftsScriptingStrategy&quot;&gt;Microsoft's Scripting Strategy&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://mailpages.scripting.com/2001/08/30&quot;&gt;Responses&lt;/a&gt; to today's essay from Sylvia Paull, Barry Cohen."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://barista.editthispage.com/2001/08/31&quot;&gt;Josh Lucas&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;It's really tough to put into words how I feel because part of me understands why this had to be done. I mean if the company I work for doesn't have any assets then we won't be in business very long. On the other hand, watching code go from open to 'gated' leaves a bad taste in my mouth.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Josh works at CollabNet.&lt;/i&gt;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xml-rpc/message/3560&quot;&gt;Lennon Day-Reynolds&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;After reading the docs on jabber.org, I was all fired up to give it a shot and then I tried to compile the server daemon on OS-X.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/specials/billGatesSatan.html&quot;&gt;A funny story&lt;/a&gt; about Bill Gates and Satan from 1997. I didn't write it and I didn't remember it. But it was quite prescient."/>
		<outline text="How aging works, for the benefit of young and old alike. When you're young, &quot;the future&quot; translates mostly to &quot;my future.&quot; As you get older, the future gains independence. You start thinking about things you won't participate in. As you get older you can think in larger chunks of time. Not sure why this is so, experience may have something to do with it. "/>
		<outline text="BTW, older people talking about aging is another of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=taboo&quot;&gt;taboo&lt;/a&gt; topics of our day. "/>
		<outline text="More taboo-talk. Say this to a 20-something. &quot;I've learned a lot since I was your age.&quot; The idea doesn't go in easily. Try another tack. &quot;Remember when you were 14. How much have you learned since then?&quot; Oh they can go on and on about that. &quot;OK, cool, do you think learning stops at 23?&quot; It's like hitting a brick wall. Now I think they think I'm saying something like Respect your elders (maybe I am) with all the connotations of subservience that come with that (I am not doing that). Hey I wish I had the body I had in my 20s (I should dig up a picture). But I have learned a lot since then. "/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/kirkDouglasAt84.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/oldKirkDoulasSmall.gif&quot; height=&quot;56&quot; width=&quot;50&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I read an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.esquire.com/features/learned/010401_mwi_douglas.html&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Kirk Douglas who's in his 80s now. They ran his picture and it made me shiver with fear to see how old he had become. My fear, not his. He said &quot;It seems as if only now I really know who I am. My strengths, my weaknesses, my jealousies — it's as if all of it has been boiling in a pot for all these years, and as it boils, it evaporates into steam, and all that's left in the pot in the end is your essence, the stuff you started out with in the very beginning.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="I listened to an &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.npr.org/freshair/dayFA.cfm?display=day&amp;todayDate=04%2F17%2F1998&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Katherine Graham where she talked about turning 80. I found a lot I could relate to, but then again, there's the fear. She said she could never visualize herself as an old woman, but she realized that she was now exactly that. At some level it never occurred to her that &lt;i&gt;she&lt;/i&gt; would get old. (BTW, Graham was a total taboo-buster. She took over the Washington Post when her husband commited suicide in 1963.)"/>
		<outline text="Maybe there's a point in life where you start really listening to people who are much older. I don't think I've quite reached that point yet, but I'm getting there. I think how much better my life would have been if I had sought out a roadmap of what was ahead. Somehow I couldn't imagine that any of it applied to me. But I'm learning as I go that it &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; applies. We create all these segments and labels, young, old, male, female, geek, PHB, etc, and think we're all so different from each other, but in the end, I think we're remarkably &lt;i&gt;alike&lt;/i&gt; inside. "/>
		<outline text="Back to what Kirk Douglas was saying. When you're in your 80s every moment counts, you don't have much future at all, and if you're paying attention you know that. Now if some of that can go back to younger people (like me!) well, what an incredible gift. That's why it's worth listening. (That's all respect means to me, let people speak for themselves, it's harder to do, to really do, that it might seem it should be.)"/>
		<outline text="Now you might ask, why do I keep busting taboos instead of being a good boy. I do it because I want to meet other people who like busting taboos. Those are the people I can work with. People of all genders, all ages, all whatever. It's an algorithm, a filter. "/>
		<outline text="Survey: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.userland.com/surveys/run/dave@userland.com/areYouATaboobuster&quot;&gt;Are you a taboo-buster?&lt;/a&gt;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zeldman.com/daily/com0801c.html#ala120&quot;&gt;Zeldman shoots&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://talkingmoose.manilasites.com&quot;&gt;Moose&lt;/a&gt;. He's right, we absolutely need designers. They're just working too hard. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;"/>
		<outline text="I'd love to get Zeldman and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bryanbell.com/&quot;&gt;Bryan Bell&lt;/a&gt; together for a demo. It would be worth flying to NY for. "/>
		<outline text="My little experiment in Google worked. Scripting News is now the top entry when you &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=blognosing&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt; for blognosing. The little things that entertain my little mind. "/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://genehack.org/&quot;&gt;John Anderson&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;You're probably hear this from about a million people, but the BSD in FreeBSD stands for Berkeley Standard Distribution.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Uhhh apparently it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#DEFINE-BSD&quot;&gt;actually&lt;/a&gt; stands for Berkeley &lt;i&gt;Software&lt;/i&gt; Distribution."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnewsarchive.userland.com/1997/08/31&quot;&gt;Four years ago today&lt;/a&gt; Princess Diana died."/>
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