On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:27:49 +0100, Derek Geldard wrote:

Thus leading to the absurdity of a (late) female nominee cabinet
minister saying that IT was "Just a simple manual skill", presumably
like packing veggies in boxes in the fields.

Yes because in the mind of that person, their scope of understanding of
IT skills was limited to switching on a computer, knowing how to click
on the start button to get to Internet Explorer, Outook and Office,
and being able to create a document in Word or a spreadsheet in Excel.