Ha, yet another Drupal site? Well, it has been ages since my last subnet142.com setup. Earlier, it lived for a while on the Microsoft Personal Web Server at my home PC (it was when ISPs had not yet blocked any port), and then a brief exercise on ASP under the same home PC for posting of restaurant menus. It wasn’t for business but simply to facilitate my take-away ordering in the office – well, the good old days of overnight programming.

And then I went for shopping a while on Java Web CMSes. Do all the study, only the study, and nothing but study.

Finally, the damn PHP thing is chosen. PHP (at least as of v4) is probably the most ugly language in the world. However, ironically, many CMSes of excellent quality reside there. It beats the Java world to nowhere, even though Java starts with a language structure that is so clean that you want it to be your wife/husband. Java is elite, and PHP is grass-root, and being too elite could mean extinction sometimes.

Anyway, I could have continued studying Java Web CMSes but then I do find the urge to write something.

There has been an influx of unrelated practices and superficial standards to the tech world regarding enterprise system building. All of a sudden, we see bunch of medieval doctors equivalent experts airborne to corporates to “help” us out. Perhaps it isn’t all that wrong but for most implementations, they are conducted by salesmen in disguise of techies to sell dreams that can never be realized, at least with the current wisdom.

So, if not for saving the world, I at least need a playground to release my pressure of dealing with idiots in my daily work (instead of victimizing my friends to read those weekly hate mails). Further, and then there were the Dilbert thing. From where I stand, many corporate mission/vision/re-engineering exercises resemble very much like the communist jokes⁽¹⁾ in the 60’s. In fact, I can re-use some of the communist strategies occasionally to deal with my daily work in the office... Not sure whether I should love it or hate it!

A bit of relief, I may write something positive and humanistic once in a while, before I kill myself with an overdose of Pursuit of Excellence.

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For those who lost their lives in the Cultural Revolution or the similar, this is definitely not a joking matter, same as the damages done to the society by Enron and Arthur Anderson. However, this is also ridiculous how such nonsense could happen in an era that we thought we were way over the Dark Ages, or are we?