Get on with IT

I love covering IT press conferences. Cos its only at IT press cons that i know that all the other journalists are as clueless as i am, and i have as good a chance as anybody else to actually understand what the hell is going on.
I mean, take for example the press con i went for yesterday. Name of the company - Neo Accel. What do they do? Er.... i'll just go with software development. Actually make that 'development of java related software products' - noone except IT guys (and hence noone whose opinion i care about) will know the difference.
Anyways the PR person hands out press releases, and a collective, unspoken "ouch" goes around the room as every journalist reads the first line - "NeoAccel's SSL VPN-Plus provides injected latency of just 10 milliseconds (ms) for VoIP calls and videoconferencing sessions, eliminating the performance problems that have until now made SSL VPNs unacceptable for real-time applications such as VoIP and video conferencing between multiple corporations". Ouch indeed.
Now believe me, as a journalist, i hate it when other journalists use their power unnecessarily. Like shouting at PR people cos they know they can't shout back. Like bullying heads of corporations cos they know they wont say anything cos they need the publicity. But in the course of this interview, when one journalist (a particularly annoying one) said, "This is all jargon, we don't need all this information, please cut it out and get on with your presentation' I swear at that moment, i could have stood up and kissed the guy. not only did he cut short the man's explanation of TCPIP's role in eliminating the packet loss problem, but also it was 2 o clock in the afternoon, and the smell of taj coromandel lunch (best in the city, blv me) was wafting through the audience in tortuous waves.
I'm telling you, it's hard enough dealing with your friends who are in IT, who have these vastly superior looks on their faces when they're explaining what SAP is... I mean, it's not enough to say it's a way for companies to connect with its branch offices... They have to say something like, "First of all the term is derived from the German phrase Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung..." Get on with it, schweinhound! And here's something else - you have to say ess..ay..pee as three seperate letters otherwise they're highly offended... I mean sure way to make an IT guy see red is to go up to him and say "So this sap stuff, what's that shit all about?"
So while IT is on a high, and while people our age make more and more money and become more and more annoying and people like me get more and more jealous, and as we grow older and they're buying a mercedes s class while i'm wondering if i should go for bigger bike or be really adventurous and pick up a second hand maruti... i'll just go on making fun of them... surely i have the right, dont i?