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I'm just going to lay down, drink a couple of shots of Canadian Whiskey and accept the fact that I'm this week's official Pigdog nuclear missile target.
-- Flesh

Blast from the Past at Last

by Mr. Bad

1999-01-13 18:16:00

Java and XML and CORBA and all that fancy crap have got me down. I was pining for the days when Microsoft second-sourced a UNIX for the 286, and RDBMS's were the hottest new technology. Then I found "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre". Ah.

This crazy pages-long diatribe is a combination of Kafka and HST with a strong jolt of Revelations thrown in. Its message -- about the horrors of maintaining systems for morons who don't understand them and don't WANT to understand them -- is as true today as it was in 1989. That is, not much.

But check out the XCM anyways. It's good strong stuff for a bad weak era.

Over.  End of Story.  Go home now.

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