This from a Dreamhost support worker (emphasis mine):

I just ran our new magical super jabber fixer script, and it's assured me that your jabber is working now. I have full confidence in this script, but should it have been lieing to me please let me know and I'll see what more I can do.

Thanks! James

I wrote him back asking if he had a version of the script for DB2 or Oracle 10g. He responded:

Maybe now we'll let it loose on our bgp tables... hmm... maybe best to limit it to jabber.

Cheers! James

I love techs with a sense of humor with their customers. It makes working with them so much more fun.

If you, as a parent, choose to not lie to your child about Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, are you limiting that child’s imagination or heightening their sense of reality? Or are you just producing the kid who ruins the fun for all of the believers. Is that to say that there always is an acceptable level of naivety for a person? Only in the developmental stages? Why? Or, what does that mean for those of us who are knowingly veiled by this naivety but strive for truthful knowledge?

I haven’t yet arrived an answer.