Every couple years it resurfaces and every couple of years it still seems painfully relevant and current. And I keep reading it, sniggering away, each time :-)

Still relevant.

I hate how, instead of being good at "technology X," employers are requiring people to be skilled at "company Y's version of technology X."

I think we're past the era of overusage on design patterns and the dreaded factory factory factories?

Some people might have just started programming last year. Why would they have read this article in 2005?

My first encounter, and it would have hit the nail on the head, if I'd bother to spend the 3 weeks developing it.

Shakespeare is still a great read.