We should have suspected something was up when one online web site "re-introduced" this hack's death march book just as despair about Dot Coms was peaking.

Now comes one of the usual collections of cliches about a topic he barely knows, "thoughts" inspired by the 1970s and 1980s, and the same "cut and paste" methodology stitching the work of others forced into the round holes by his square brain.

A Laugh a Minute

-- Anonymous, May 24, 2001

Answers

The incredible part of the nonsense above is that he hasn't changed from his "black and white, all or none" straw men setups.

The "net projects" he deems fit worthy of discussing are the big "roll outs" whereas anyone in the field knows that the vast bulk of net projects are merely the never ending incremental addition of web enablement or enhancements to existing Lans, Wans, C/Server or even earlier net rollouts.

The straw man he uses is the "Web Site Rollouts" that failed. Even his setup of one Gov. agency H.R. implementation is only one example of 100s of State, Local and even Fed rollouts of such employee "self service" functions. In some of those, the Agencies involved didn't even put up a dime but worked rather with the vendors or lead contractors (often IBM) on a "share the savings basis" where the "measurables" were indeed "measured" because the Vendor wanted to get paid.

From this online chapter alone, it is easy to see, that he will add the usual "doomed to failure before they started" or "80% come in late or are cancelled" so he can add Yogi Berra's deja vu all over and over and over and over and over and over and over (until someone gives him a Letter of Intent for one of his "teams" of consultants).

Twit doesn't even know that game is up thanks to the very thing he is attacking. For those who doubt it, read the "comments" and "feedback" sections after the almost daily articles from the "Consultants" and "Think Tanks".

Unlike the SNEERING METHODOLOGY the above author is now famous for, I.T. may be slow and pokey but it is not STUPID (as he assumes).

-- Anonymous, May 24, 2001

The REAL STORY: the difference between 1991 (the above writer scribbled "The toasted decline and fall of the Am. Programmer" in that year) and 1995-2002:

REAL WORLD LINK http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnnews/2001/may/memory/memory.asp

-- Anonymous, May 24, 2001

and fast ed can kiss my ass, too.

-- Anonymous, May 25, 2001

Nobody will laugh or cry since nobody but YOU Reuben give a flying yahoo about some boring tech spewer living in bumfuck noplace.

Yellow background,,,life ain't that hard, K? Here is a dolt who in his peabrain, actually thinks anybody is going to read a massive webpage on a yellow background which amounts to saying, the world changed.

WOW, what a revelation.

-- Anonymous, May 25, 2001

Note the post above about kissing ass was not from me though I am hardly adverse to such thinking.

As far as Desert Eyerolling Wonder is concerned, the article is a great example of the writer at his best. Mundane and antique, replete with cliches for people he assumes are stupider than he is. While there are many such who fall into that category (his fans from TB, GN's general discussions and now the worst from Unks come to mind), his "target market" gets rather slim when His Royal Boredom aims at I.T.

-- Anonymous, May 25, 2001