I was in a Service Oriented Architecture class last week and the instructor told us that as he got out of a taxi the taxi driver looked up at the building and said "oh yeah, I remember that building. I programmed a lot of Fortran in that building". My instructor said that he was surprised to hear this coming from this guy. Yesterday, a coworker sent me a picture that he had said someone had taken. See below... Yes, one thing that is true of the IT profession is that one cannot let up on their laurels tooooo long -- or one risks becoming truly obsolete. IT changes soooo fast. Case in point, last week I was coming through the airport on a business trip. I had not one but two personal computers with me as I went through the security check. One being my "work" computer; the other being my truly "personal" computer. I laughed as I remembered my Dad and thought that he wouldn't believe it if he were alive (he died in 1987) that I routinely walked around with two computers that I carried in a little bag thrown over my shoulder. When he died, one of the loves of his life (besides my mom and me) was his rather large Sperry desktop computer. Believe me, one could not walk around the airport with this thing. ;-D
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