I don't usually like to post about other peoples' posts, but Coding Horror frequently causes exception.  If you're not reading it yet, but are me, then there must be something wrong with you!  Today Jeff posted another great article on two books I've never heard of:  The Secret Guide to Compters and CODE, both about the glorious life of the computer.  The first compares the computer experience to drugs and sex:

Computers are like drugs: you begin by spending just a little on them but soon get so excited by the experience - and so hooked - that you wind up spending more and more to feed your habit.

And

The computer will fascinate you. It'll seduce you to spend more time with it. You'll fall in love with it. You'll start buying it presents:  exotic foods (expensive programs to munch on), new clothes (a pretty little cloth cover to keep dust off), and expensive jewels (a printer and extra disks).

Sex or marriage, you decide.  Anyway Jeff Atwood does a much better write-up than I, so read his article.  I may have to get these books...

And his previous article on PC Clocks was geek chic for me too.