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Sexifying IT

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IT and music

Are IT prone to be musicians–or visa versa?

Who is “the IT guy”?

[First published at SQLServerCentral.com on 6-26-2008.]
I’ll be frank. I don’t want to be called an “IT guy.” Among my IT colleagues, when we refer to the IT guy, we mean desktop or hardware support. When tech support calls, we are talking to “the IT guys”; call this elitism, but there it is. (For brevity, I [...]

Is Info. Tech Sexy Enough for Dinner Conversation? (Part 3)

So it’s been a while since my last entry. For a good stretch of time, it was tough to engage someone in a discussion about IT and get a different outcome than I’ve had so far. But now I finally have a some interesting morsels worth sharing - two to be exact.
The first is a [...]

Is Info. Tech Sexy Enough for Dinner Conversation? (Part 2)

Trying to make IT sexy at a wine and cheese party.

Is Info. Tech Sexy Enough for Dinner Conversation? (Part 1)

Can the topic of Information Technology (IT) be interesting enough for dinner conversation? So far, I’m pretty convinced that it’s “not really.” But I am desperate to be wrong.