New Management at K440
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New Management at K440
Eleven years on this site is a very long time indeed. Over more than a decade of 440ing, I’ve encountered the very best and worst of expat society in Cambodia. On the positive side of the balance sheet, I’ve met brilliant minds and genuine mavericks who might have wandered straight out of an Elmore Leonard novel. On the negative side, I’ve had the misfortune to chance upon pedos, crooks, chancers, journalists and sometimes even Australians.
When a website, even a slightly dickish one, has been such a major part of your life for longer than many marriages, it can be terribly difficult to uncouple, but uncouple I must. Over the last three years, both myself and this website have done some growing up; the site somewhat and myself somewhat more.
A couple of years ago, I experienced something the American scholar Warren G. Bennis would term ‘a crucible experience’ – a traumatic event from which I surprised myself by emerging stronger, hardier, more committed, more able to grasp context and far more engaged with my own future than I ever have been in the four decades I’ve been stumbling, sometimes incoherently, around this planet. And in this two-year period, I’ve managed to marry an awesome Khmer woman who I deeply love and who loves me equally, find a job I l adore doing (and get promoted), have a house built, enroll at grad school and work diligently to get two semesters of a masters degree program under my belt with a third semester starting in two weeks. Truly my cup runeth over.
In its own digital, cyber way, K440 has grown too and a while ago I began to sense that for the site to continue its development, it would need a new custodian and just as importantly, I would need to persevere with my own growth by stepping back from K440 and the expat internet maelstrom generally.
Nevertheless, it’s been of crucial importance for me to locate not just a new owner but the right owner: a good fit, and I feel I’ve managed that.
For a while now Scobienz has been modding the site admirably. He understands the organizational culture of K440 and has a true appreciation of our history. From today, he will take charge of this website and it will be business as usual with, I hope, a seamless transition.
The existing mod team support Scobienz and the site will remain expat owned, expat focused and perhaps even a little more inclusive. We are without a shadow of doubt the best Cambodia expat website in cyberspace and under the new leadership we will continue getting better. I’m proud to hand the site over to Scobienz and I hope you all support him and make this transition a positive one.
When a website, even a slightly dickish one, has been such a major part of your life for longer than many marriages, it can be terribly difficult to uncouple, but uncouple I must. Over the last three years, both myself and this website have done some growing up; the site somewhat and myself somewhat more.
A couple of years ago, I experienced something the American scholar Warren G. Bennis would term ‘a crucible experience’ – a traumatic event from which I surprised myself by emerging stronger, hardier, more committed, more able to grasp context and far more engaged with my own future than I ever have been in the four decades I’ve been stumbling, sometimes incoherently, around this planet. And in this two-year period, I’ve managed to marry an awesome Khmer woman who I deeply love and who loves me equally, find a job I l adore doing (and get promoted), have a house built, enroll at grad school and work diligently to get two semesters of a masters degree program under my belt with a third semester starting in two weeks. Truly my cup runeth over.
In its own digital, cyber way, K440 has grown too and a while ago I began to sense that for the site to continue its development, it would need a new custodian and just as importantly, I would need to persevere with my own growth by stepping back from K440 and the expat internet maelstrom generally.
Nevertheless, it’s been of crucial importance for me to locate not just a new owner but the right owner: a good fit, and I feel I’ve managed that.
For a while now Scobienz has been modding the site admirably. He understands the organizational culture of K440 and has a true appreciation of our history. From today, he will take charge of this website and it will be business as usual with, I hope, a seamless transition.
The existing mod team support Scobienz and the site will remain expat owned, expat focused and perhaps even a little more inclusive. We are without a shadow of doubt the best Cambodia expat website in cyberspace and under the new leadership we will continue getting better. I’m proud to hand the site over to Scobienz and I hope you all support him and make this transition a positive one.
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- Lucky Lucan
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Well done for keeping the ship going for so long and kudos for getting that Scooby guy on board.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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Well... that is an anti climax. Cheers KiR for what you've done and here's hoping Scobz can take the mantle.
Fair play to ye both. Now I'm think inking a beer is in order for posters and I'm an NGO cunt of the worst order so you know I'll be cheap... First 10 are on me then you can all go scratch.
Fair play to ye both. Now I'm think inking a beer is in order for posters and I'm an NGO cunt of the worst order so you know I'll be cheap... First 10 are on me then you can all go scratch.
Thanks KiR and welcome Scoby. However, KiR, I can't believe you missed the golden opportunity to title the thread "There's a new sheriff in town."
Hear hear.
Kudos to Kir for a tough job well done and having been able to negociate a difficult transition at the right time.
Scobie ... after initial reservations I have to say has been doing a great job, and I am sure he will continue to steer the ship in the right way.
Kudos to Kir for a tough job well done and having been able to negociate a difficult transition at the right time.
Scobie ... after initial reservations I have to say has been doing a great job, and I am sure he will continue to steer the ship in the right way.
Excellent, best of luck for the future.keeping_it_riel wrote:I’ve managed to marry an awesome Khmer woman who I deeply love and who loves me equally, find a job I l adore doing (and get promoted), have a house built, enroll at grad school and work diligently to get two semesters of a masters degree program under my belt with a third semester starting in two weeks. Truly my cup runeth over.
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It's been a long week and a tiring night (some of which was spent in delightful company of youngwill at Angry Birds ) and I'm going to bed. I recently got home and saw this thread and didn't want people to think I was ignoring it without acknowledging it.
I'm off to bed, and I'll try to respond as best I can to KiR's excellent OP - and the responses following - tomorrow morning.
I'm off to bed, and I'll try to respond as best I can to KiR's excellent OP - and the responses following - tomorrow morning.
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Congrats to both Peter and Scoby, I'm sure this is a good move for both of you.
I raise a Prosecco in your direction from Venezia!
I raise a Prosecco in your direction from Venezia!
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I am new and did not know who the owners were.
Great job KIR in building such a great site and best of luck in your future!
Also looking forward to see what Scobienz has in mind to making it even better!
Great job KIR in building such a great site and best of luck in your future!
Also looking forward to see what Scobienz has in mind to making it even better!
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So the Vlad was spot on after all..... who would a guessed...
Bond: "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned."
Q: "That's putting it mildly, 007!"
Q: "That's putting it mildly, 007!"
I've just become aware that a post on this thread has been deleted and the associated account deleted. I'm genuinely sorry about that. It happened without my knowledge or sanction. I saw the post and thought it was harmless and that the mod action was unnecessary and, frankly, harmful. I didn't invest in this excellent forum for that to happen in the first 30 minutes of my tenure.
Could I please ask my fellow mods to let the discussion / feedback flow naturally? This is not the time to censor feedback, particularly when it's irreverent in nature.
Thanks. And mea culpa GMS-440.
Could I please ask my fellow mods to let the discussion / feedback flow naturally? This is not the time to censor feedback, particularly when it's irreverent in nature.
Thanks. And mea culpa GMS-440.
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