There has been a scurrilous, underhanded (and very funny) assault on Alpha-geekdom by Craig recently. I'd just like to stand up for α-geeks, as opposed to his pathetic ω-geeks. Yes , I am indeed inordinately proud of my CodeProject article . I get irritated by people talking about datasets already , I very rarely go to conferences because I'm too busy coding, and what the hell is wrong with reading ? Hell, I have a stack of books on my table right now. Downloading porn? Well that would just...