How often in life has use of a word inside a profession had a different meaning outside it.
We had dinner years ago with a neighbour we had not really spoken to before.
Over dinner we discussed both being Architects but he was now retired. As usual five minutes into the conversation it occurred to us we were joking about different things. He said Royal College of Architects and I said Internet Spod.
He architected buildings and I architected large piles of computers and network equipment.
He actually became quite seriously offended in the room, saying I should not use the title "architect" as IT had no status or formal accreditation which would allow anyone to claim it. He had a fair point. Anyway next time I saw him he made a clear point of calling me a "technical person" to the other neighbour in the gaggle.
I had done a bit of homework having been quite offended. Anyway the thing I architected had more users in a day that the one he designed in a year and had scaled to over 12m concurrent users, 4x its original design spec, without degradation. He seemed a bit put out when I raised this point and I never heard from him again.
I have never been good at making friends.
Last edited by Alistair; 16/06/26 09:09 AM.
