I've been following this diet 3 days on and 4 days off for 3 weeks and it's doing fine so far. On the off days I eat what I usually would, plus a bit more and weight has been falling off of me. I also feel more energetic and my wife deifinitely approves. It may or may not extend life but I'm losing weight and feeling healthier. I'm hoping this diet will delay the onset of the diseases of a prosperous old age (obesity, diabetes, heart disease etc.) for a good long time.

I'm a windows admin and I use scripts when I absolutely positively definitely can't use anything else (or for things I want to do once). Scripts are bad for you, they go in to organisations and sit around, quietly working for years until the admin who wrote them left, everyone who knew what it did left and everyone else has to puzzle it out and guess at what it is doing. So I keep it simple. Group policy where possible, little batch files on login if GP won't work, and, after that I will resort to scripting. It should not be ancouraged as a standard practice. As for powershell, I'll use it when nothing else works.