Supergeek

Way back, on Tuesday December 8th, 1987, when I was a geek, I was at a coffee shop in High Street Prahran one night, chatting up a young lady.

I was a developer back then, working on some Unix application or other. And I was geeking it up like all good geeks do. Having this young ladies attention and prompted by some questions I was describing the process of maintaining a large application and expatiating, at length, on just how difficult it sometimes is to track down and eliminate a bug.

She looked at me and asked the killer question. 'If it's so hard to get rid of the bugs why do you put them there in the first place!'

I STILL don't have a good answer for that one!