I was reading Shoemoney’s column today and it made me pause… literally! Ok, so he is a blogger, and I know he is a Real person, but still, to me he is just someone unknown who writes about the web business.

However, today he had a post on his blog, regarding the demise of his good friend, Brice Beamen. He said that he names his servers after people that he would like to remember, dead or alive. People that mattered to him, people that helped him get to where he is in life today, or good friends. I lost my dad last year, and he was my best friend, and I get teary eyed every time I think of him. I miss just picking up the phone and calling him to give him an update on his grandkids or anything else that has happened to me that day. Naming the servers after loved ones, that just blew me away. Wow! This just opens up a whole lot of emotions to something so lifeless as a server. I would just be afraid to be too attached to that server, if I name it after my dad. I cannot imagine ever switching servers… it would mean I am letting go of my dad once again. I don’t think I could go through it again.