Daisy, Daisy…

Today I pulled the plug on a site that I helped run for a long-standing client. I dropped tables, and deleted folders until the site was not there. It was amazingly similar to 2001: A Space Oddesy, except instead of pulling circuit boards I wrote

drop table… cascade;

As I dropped each table I tried to be thankful.

• Thankful for all the wonderful people that I got to create with. We designed, we discussed, we built.
• Thankful for a client who happily believed that it was possible to graft a student management system onto the side of a mailing-list manager.
• Thankfully for the decades of use the system had.

I tried to be thankful, and I was. But I am also tremendously sad that something good that I helped build is gone after decades of use.