Re: Engineering Archaeology

Jim Kinney via Ale <[email protected]>
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Ha! The project book "What this goddamn this is, how it works, and what we
thinking when we built it" is NEVER part of the project and should be the
first thing done!

-- 
James P. Kinney III

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain


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On Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 12:23 PM lollipopman691 via Ale <[email protected]> wrote:

> Heh heh.  A very amusing essay. I personally myself set up wiki webs in
> two of the jobs I had over the years,and contributed extensively to others
> I found already in place. They're my personal favorite way of preserving
> this sort of thing.
>
> https://landley.net/history/mirror/institutional_memory.html
>
> -- CHS
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