Hi, I'm Enon. If you know your Arthur C. Clarke, you'll see I'm conceited enough to borrow my online surname from Yarlan Zey.
CC is my girlfriend. Level-headed, sexy, with not much patience for spending a lot of time getting the computers to run. I'm a lucky man; CC thinks my particular geekiness is cool.
AT is 'Aunt Tillie', the proverbial geek's nemesis. Mostly treated contemptuously by the IT industry, Aunt Tillie has no intrinsic interest in computers, much to the geeks' disappointment. AT is a composite of friends, clients and acquaintances. AT finds computers frustrating, confusing, difficult, necessary and infuriating.
IT is also a composite. He's the manager who buys enterprise software based on a checklist, without ever talking to the people who will actually use the software. He's the technical support guy whose voice drips with condescension when you don't know all the specs of your computer. He's the tutor who grabs the mouse and goes through fifty clicks faster than you can follow. IT hates and has no patience for AT and shows it.
At its best, Apple is the anti-IT. At its worst, Apple is just as bad as the rest of the industry.
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