There are essentially two kinds of ITers. There are those who always have the latest and flashiest technology and the real professionals, whose desks look like a cross between a museum and a scrap heap.
Having the latest kit merely advertises your vanity and those who insist on it spend a good 60% of their time trying to get it all synchronised, downloading drivers or smply showing off uselsess features to idle passers-by.
A real ITer, in contrast, has an antique system box beneath the desk, stuffed to the gunnels with recycled parts and held together with gaffer tape.
Of course it can be allowed to go too far. In my case, for example, my keyboard, venerable peripheral component of some antiquity, has been in use for so long, that most of the letters and numbers printed on the keys have rubbed off. I find myself seeking out words containing unusual letters. Fewer vowels are good. Maybe I should start writing in Welsh or Polish. I e-mailed someone recently and told them I was "hiping to vime fien doom to ser then".
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