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OK, this just occurred to me while reading a client ticket.

Why do the Windows / Mac world insist on calling file system directories “folders”?
When dealing with real file cabinets and files, you put A file in A folder. You don’t put multiple files in a single file folder. A folder contains exactly one file.
So why is a directory, which holds many files, get called a “folder”? Wouldn’t “drawer” be more accurate?

All quiet on the western front…Yeah, haven’t posted in a while. Been so busy…

Really hating my job. I am SO ready to be rid of ${POE}. I’ve been waiting for a promotion I was promised since Sept. I got the pay raise in mid Oct, but am still doing the old job, which I hate, with no change on the horizon. They can’t seem to hire people fast enough and they need to hire like 3 people in order to replace me.

Meanwhile, I’ve started doing consulting with . I flew out to San Diego this last weekend and did a job for a small company involved in mobile messaging. Was very fun. Got to play with some new (to me) technologies (ethernet interface bonding, HA failover with heartbeat, load balancing (not new to me, but the piece of Cisco kit being used, 11501, is). Was on the go the whole time. I took off at 15:30 from DFW on Sat, landed 16:30 at SAN (two hour time difference), got the car from Avis and met the client outside the data center. Got a bit of orientation with the client, then we looked at their gear. I’m not too impressed with the data center they use. Very lax about security (they never bothered to ask for my ID when I first came in) but they have some strange security rules. Many other customers in that data center make the cabling at ${POE} look good, which is really saying something. The data center didn’t even have the second ethernet drop in the client’s cabinet activated, per contract, until after the client emailed them this weekend. And THEN they never responded to the email, just fixed it silently.

I was intending to take lots of pictures of beautiful San Diego to post to the blog, but ended up not having time to take pictures, or even SEE beautiful San Diego. Landed after dark, was on the go the whole time, took off after dark.

I did get ONE picture, which I haven’t offloaded from the camera yet.

Late night downloads of the 400Mb+ patch to WoW, going at a snails pace, because you don’t have access to open the ports the downloader uses for it’s bittorrent client.

Quick swap of the Linksys router with the crappy AirLink+ router I have sitting around, adjust the firewall properties and I’ve gone from “you appear to be behind a firewall” to “Estimated time left: about 10 minutes”

More testing - Uploading pictures to Flikr via Semagic

PC020033
Originally uploaded by strongbow_1800.

Working the iron.

PC020032
Originally uploaded by strongbow_1800.

Taken at ${POE}’s holiday party.

I like this one better.

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Originally uploaded by strongbow_1800.

Taken at ${POE}s holiday party.