In between 109 canned press releases, 18 product pitches and two offers to buy Viagra at a special 20 percent discounted rate, I found a goldmine of feisty feedback.

I could hardly contain my delight as I clicked open my mail from readers bemoaning our "ageist" coverage of life in IT.

A snippet of the fiery fanfare appears in Computerworld [Australia] magazine's Forum section on page 17 (October 25, 2006).

Do I need to even reference these stories? I know you read them.

And I know you squirmed in your seat when Gartner analyst Mark Raskino described senior IT managers as "middle-aged, sedan-driving, middle-income, middle-class, middle-of-the-road, midlife-crisis, mid-sized managers, who carry a little bit too much weight around their middles".