As a proponent of the technology age, I admit to throwing buzzwords around with the best (or worst) of us. Like my use of pidgin, however, I usually try to speak the language that's most appropriate to my audience. There are times when I slip, and use a term that I think is universal, but is not. This happened recently when I recommended to a colleague that she consider housing her computer systems in a data center. I went on and on extolling the pros and cons of doing so, until she interrupted me with "What the heck is a data center, anyway?"
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