Let's face it, a , even at government bailout king AIG, doesn't normally get noticed outside of such media outlets, in this case. Or to paraphrase what Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine told Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa Lund in the film, Casablanca, "it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three six little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."

But the as a reminder that IT workers nationally continue to see their jobs tank, according to data from the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses, an Alexandria, Va.-based group that analyzes U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

IT employment in the U.S. fell by 17,000 jobs in February, ( ) or less than a half percent, an improvement over December, which saw a decline of 56,000 jobs, or 1.4%, and January, with job cuts of 46,000, or 1.15%.

IT employment, which peaked last November at more than 4 million jobs, now stands at 3,938,800.

As grim as these numbers may seem, IT workers at least in some areas, are doing better than most professions. Nationally, unemployment is at 8%, but the fourth quarter unemployment rate for computer hardware engineers is 1.4% and computer software engineers 1.9%, according to NACCB.