The IT Aristocracy

Michele got his knickers in a twit and Damien tried strangling him with them. Now while I enjoy twitter immensely - it's good sociable fun - I don't feel the need to defend it but Damien has nailed something far more corrosive in Michele's rant than twitteritis and that's the 'usual tech snobbery' -

“Oh gawd, you use a PC”, “Oh gawd, you use Windows and not ubuntu”

My how that reminds me of my first encounter with the IT Aristocracy at the start of the 90s when I was going through University. I can still remember how the command line snots looked down their noses at us Windows wimps. "Real programmers don't use toys!!". Don't get me wrong, I was a Unix Sys Admin for a few years myself and can appreciate a good shell script as much as the upper-crusters but one size doesn't fit all and computing isn't just for the elite. I can't get into MySpace myself but I've never dedicated a post to bashing MySpace users. Different strokes for different blokes.

Michele points out that he's not the only one - people like Adam agree with him. Then again Adam is the only blogger I know who denies that he's a blogger. Will he be twittering in a few year's time but denying he's a twit? Ironic really that even the Father of Blogging, who doesn't use twitter himself [update: see Dave's correction in comments below], is "reluctant to dismiss [it] as a passing fad". But then again he's been battling the IT Aristocracy for years...