computerdom

Is frustration a normal part of computerdom, when you have a shiny new program and no way to use it?

Or was the pronouncement more of the doublespeak so common in computerdom?

A few words that were once the province of computerdom have now seeped into general usage (call it outsourced English).

Microsoft, heavyweight of the rest of computerdom, has scrambled to catch up with search innovations from Google and others.

More to the point, Mr. Cringely evidently knows everybody who is or was anybody in computerdom and even understands what they are talking about.

(Customer engineers, or CE's, being the wonder workers of computerdom - the maintenance men.)

MOST of my photographer friends are by now deeply immersed in the arcane lore of computerdom.

(Two-sewer hitters await computerdom's use of stickball, curb ball and punchball.)

According to an article in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review, these rewards have been described as "among computerdom's most prized trophies".

But that is the case with two legendary figures of computerdom: Theodor Holm Nelson and Douglas C. Engelbart.

Y.& R. San Francisco confronts a herculean task because Novell's recent problems have done damage to a point that some consider the company the Job of computerdom.

The 34-year-old Mr. Bunting likes to say he is the Bob Vila of computerdom, but he more closely resembles Susan Powter as a marketing phenonmenon.

Today the perception of Microsoft as the Evil Empire is greater than ever, measured in personal attacks on Mr. Gates from rival computer moguls, and on the Internet, the collective unconscious of computerdom.

Gibson's novel was the forerunner of what has come to be called cyberpunk fiction; John Markoff of The New York Times was co-author of a book about computerdom titled "Cyberpunk."

And one of the cultural byproducts of the relentless march of personal-computer technology through society is the extraordinary revival and pervasive use of the term "cool" - the favorite expression of Mr. Gates and just about everyone else in computerdom.

Something that, though emanating from what many consider the Evil Empire of computerdom, has the potential to do such tremendous good that it reminds philanthropy experts of the turn-of-the-century transformation of New York City by the railroad and oil barons.