Phoenix.pm: Web site v.000000001
Doug and Julie Miles
dmiles at primenet.com
Fri Apr 16 13:53:52 CDT 1999
I have the hacked web page up now. Here's the URL:
http://phoenix.pm.org/phoenix.html
Have at it! I think that we'll probably need a web page pumpking* to keep
the changes organized.
* Chip Salzenberg gets credit for that, with a nod to his coworker, David
Croy. We had passed around various names (baton, token, hot potato) but
none caught on. Then, Chip asked:
[begin quote]
Who has the patch pumpkin?
To explain: David Croy once told me once that at a previous job, there was
one tape drive and multiple systems that used it for backups. But instead
of some high-tech exclusion software, they used a low-tech method to
prevent multiple simultaneous backups: a stuffed pumpkin. No one was
allowed to make backups unless they had the ``backup pumpkin''.
[end quote]
The name has stuck. The holder of the pumpkin is sometimes called the
pumpking.
Quoted from the perlhist document.
Doug and Julie Miles
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