Back to work today, and in my final half-hour or so, I started imparting some order to my home directory on my @work workstation. I’m the download, compile, patch, and packaging king where I work, so some order was definitely needed. I made huge strides in the root level of my home directory, deleting and moving files so that an “ls” takes far less screen real estate than before.

The plan now is to take a few minutes at the end of each work day, descend another level deeper into each directory hierarchy, and delete or reclassify as appropriate.

The above apply of course to my Solaris workstation. I also have a work PC, whose sole purpose in life, other than to drive me absolutely bat shit insane, is to receive Lotus Notes email. Lotus Notes (aptly named since it rhymes closely with “blows goats”) actually did me a favor in inbox defenestration before I went on vacation. I’d selected a bunch of messages to delete, Lotus in its wisdom somehow reversed the sense of my selection, and when I clicked “delete” the stuff I wanted to keep was suddenly gone. I routinely purge deletions immediately after, so those messages are now in the bit bucket in the sky. So I then had to clean out the inbox, which now consisted of stuff I’d originally wanted to delete, so that part was trivial. Result, nothing in the inbox, and with few regrets or worries on my part about the inadvertent deletions.

-k-

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