Comments on: someone down under goes over budget

someone down under goes over budget

Mick — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 18:50:52 -0800

What does AUS$4 Million get you? A website. Not a very good one at that, but what do you expect when it's only 3.6mil over budget?

By: tiamat

tiamat — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 18:54:44 -0800

damn hippies

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 18:57:19 -0800

tiamat, your comment history is fascinating. I don't know how this community survived so long without you.

By: LouReedsSon

LouReedsSon — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 19:15:43 -0800

Damn. Think I'll get into web design! Seriously though, I'll probably forget about this by tomorrow, so I hope there'll be a follow-up when these folks offer up a comment on where all that money went.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 19:22:55 -0800

Crikey, that's awful. But it's funny as hell, for me at least, reminding me as it does of my days in the IT game in Sydney. Vignette was the one-tool-for-all-seasons solution pushed by the Internet Dev division of the company I worked for, too. I abandoned the shares I was given when I came to Korea, the ones that weren't bought back - not worth the effort to sell them. And spending 4 mil on a 400k project was par for the course. Good times, good times.

By: Eloquence

Eloquence — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 19:30:17 -0800

Hmm .. let's see. Ugly navigation bar with annoying color code -check. Cheap stock photo backgrounds -check. Inconsistent design -check. Ugly URLs -check. No forum and no news other than press releases -check. Part of site only works in IE (search box not visible in Mozilla) -check. Yup, looks like a typical government website to me. Oh, and it's slow, too.

By: oog

oog — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 19:41:19 -0800

that's just....just...

By: oog

oog — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 19:41:35 -0800

By: banished

banished — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 19:41:57 -0800

Someone get me a job like that.

By: Ryvar

Ryvar — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 21:20:16 -0800

Going completely offtopic here because I have nothing to say about this other than random mumblings about government excess and stupidity (I mean, what else IS there to say?) - wanted to notice tiamat. So, 45 posts in which he commented, once, to each thread he posted in - 'damn hippies' and nothing else? Jesus. That's beautiful! Genius and creepy, really. I mean, sure, spamming, angry rants, always posting it, etc. But just taking the time to post 'damn hippies', once, to 45 threads . . . Wow. It's literally like a whole performance art. I am in love.

By: i_am_joe's_spleen

i_am_joe's_spleen — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 21:52:46 -0800

Hmmm. Vignette. Need I say more? Google Vignette and John Tesch...

By: dazed_one

dazed_one — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 22:41:01 -0800

Two words convey all that need be said on 45 completely different topics. Brilliant. "Damn hippies", indeed.

By: pedantic

pedantic — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 22:49:55 -0800

Damn hippes. Sometimes, the hippies aren't at fault. A hippes in this case is awfully close to hippos...a big animal...like the site. Hippos are neat, the site is not. Hippes, indeed.

By: mokey

mokey — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 23:38:23 -0800

my word, that site sure is bloody AWFUL. anyway tiamat has posted normal comments as well.

By: moonbiter

moonbiter — Sat, 05 Apr 2003 00:19:10 -0800

Hmmm. Vignette. Need I say more? Google Vignette and John Tesch... I did and I didn't get squat. Could you say more? I'm interested in credible Vignette stories.

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Sat, 05 Apr 2003 01:00:04 -0800

It's "Tesh", btw.

By: Zootoon

Zootoon — Sat, 05 Apr 2003 02:00:42 -0800

That trackback sounds like "My sweet lord" but I can't get the syllables to match the notes. Anyone?

By: Zootoon

Zootoon — Sat, 05 Apr 2003 02:07:41 -0800

I'm just waiting for someone to post this so I can say "Damn hippos".

By: password

password — Sat, 05 Apr 2003 02:24:36 -0800

That site totally rocks (in a mullet sort of way). I'd like to build a totally fucked up site sometime like that. It would be all those things that you shouldn't do, rolled into one giant fuck you. Off topic: I don't know how this community survived so long without you. Looks like tiamat has been a contributing member for about 17 more months than you, Pretty_Generic. :) I think the "damn hippies" comments are genius as well.

By: pedantic

pedantic — Sat, 05 Apr 2003 07:19:51 -0800

And I'm waiting for somebody to post this so I can say damn hippies.

By: Satapher

Satapher — Sat, 05 Apr 2003 11:08:07 -0800

tiamat, your comment history is fascinating. I don't know how this community survived so long without you. That was so much more useful.

By: Satapher

Satapher — Sat, 05 Apr 2003 11:08:24 -0800

That was so much more useful. That was so much more useful.

By: backOfYourMind

backOfYourMind — Sat, 05 Apr 2003 20:15:20 -0800

Maybe it's not useful, but I'm glad P_G pointed out tiamat's unique posting style. 'Damn hippies' isn't offensive enough to really upset anyone, it's not really a running joke (no one seems to have cared or even noticed until now), AND taimat posts regular posts as well. Wee-eird. It's like some weird tourette's tic or something. The fact that tiamat persists with this oddness in the face of everyone's total indifference fills me with a kind of wary respect. Back on topic, the minister for the DCITA is Richard Alston, apparently photographed here a few seconds after being beamed aboard the Starship Enterprise. Regular readers of The Register will recognize the minister as the subject of much ridicule here, here, here and oh.... here

By: rory

rory — Sun, 06 Apr 2003 05:32:24 -0800

Four million dollars, and the verdict of the W3C validator is: This page is not Valid -//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 file://EN! Spec-tac-ular.

By: Hankins

Hankins — Sun, 06 Apr 2003 15:32:01 -0800

Damn Yankees?