Defining a generation

I was scrolling through The Star online this morning, and found a story that created quite the reaction in me. I'm not sure if it was the content itself, the person who wrote it, or the fact that I had yet to finish my first cup of coffee, but in some ways it angered me and in others it made me wonder.
So before I get going, here's what I'm talking about http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1150710546633&call_pageid=968332188492

First of all, why doesn't my generation have a letter? Too young for Gen X and too old (though barely) for Gen Y, what are we, Gen X.5, Gen XY?
And if this article is our how to guide between the two generations it's clear my generation falls right in the middle. I have stacks of CDs, which I have gladly transferred to my iPod, but also have my share of downloaded and burn CDs. I owned a walkman, a discman and now an iPod. I could go on and on, but I won't, we're the generation in between and probably better for it.
One aspect of the difference between the two generations, and as the one in the middle my generation has a good vantage for seeing it, is how they feel about the 'establishment.'
Gen X was notorious for not wanted to follow in the footsteps of their baby boomer parents, they didn't want much do to with the mainstream (hence they adopted alternative music as their soundtrack). They wanted to do things their own way, own their terms, even if that meant less money. Sure, many of them eventually sold their flannel shirts for a corner office, but at least for a while, they had principles.
Gen Y loves the establishment. They are all about fitting in, they want the latest trend in clothes, jobs, friends, technology (the writer is probably on her second iPod because her first one was too bulky... dude I'm only on my second cell phone!). They want the shiny condo and the little dog, the designer sunglasses etc. You can't even try to call Gen Y a slacker generation, but many of them do forget that accomplishing these things takes a hell of a lot of work. They're not slackers, but many of them are lazy (the Star's writer is not among the lazy).
I don't think Gerson missed the mark entirely, but I don't think you can possibly define a generation based on trends and technology and then call it a how to guide. But she's only 23 (at most) really, what does she know? And while Gerson says Gen Xers needed to watch out for the Gen Yers, really they need to be watching out for us, Gen X.5.
We have the best of both, we've been told about 'fighting the man,' and like the idea. We're educated and many of us still understand the value of working our asses off. Oh and hell, we're the generation who refused to be defined with a letter, or by the trends that we followed. Maybe, because we're a generation that holds on to one thing that Gen Y sadly lacks -- individuality.