I'd like to add my own parable on the occasion of Dave Winer's fiftieth birthday today [link]. This parable is in the same vein as Seth's Dave Winer's Software, Users, and Fiftieth Birthday post and Emmanuel's reply.

There is no doubt that Dave's impact on me is primarily as a result of Frontier and it's content management framework which I still use to this day. Not forgetting of course that this technology partly underpins Seth's superb implementation of Conversant.

But Dave's links and opinions on Scripting News have also had a significant influence. A search of Duncan's Jotter for 'Scripting News' currently yields more than 130 citations!

So many happy returns from one 50-year-old to another Dave. We may have had disagreements in the past - a Semi-colonic Irritation springs to mind ;-) - but there's no doubting your contribution to the sum total of human endeavour.

So Dave here's to your next 50 years!! Very best wishes.